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The Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (ADI)
The Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative works towards meeting the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch's mandate of ensuring availability of, or access to services for First Nations and Inuit; Assisting First Nations and Inuits to address health barriers and to attain health levels comparable to other Canadians living in similar locations; and in building stronger partnerships with First Nations and Inuits to improve the health system.
The application deadline for submission is January 25th, 2008 4:00 pm Eastern Time
ACADRE Network
Aboriginal Capacity and Development Research Environments The Network offers research funding grants to undergraduate students, graduate students, and Aboriginal communities. Their primary objective is to stimulate Aboriginal health research through building the capacity of communities to identify, research, and address their own health issues.
Adult Learning Knowledge Centre
The Adult Learning Knowledge Centre invites groups, organizations, and institutes across Canada involved in adult learning activities to submit projects to this new call for projects. The targeted areas for submissions in 2007-2008 are literacy, seniors' learning, arts and culture, and prior learning asssessment and recognition. The knowledge centre is particularly interested in supporting small initiatives with a maximum grant of $5,000.
Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research
The August call for RFPs includes:
Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research
Injury Stats database
ACICR Funding Opportunities
The Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy (AYSPS) - Education, Awareness and Training Fund Alberta Traffic Safety Fund Overview: Community Injury Control Fund 2007 - 2008;
Alberta Health & Wellness
contains, publications, databases and funding information
Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
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Alcohol Policy Network
Contains contact director and Research & stats database. The 2001-2002 edition of the Directory of Substance Abuse and Injury Prevention Contacts in Public Health is now available online. See also the guide to On-Line Research & Statistics.
Best Practices Database (UK)
This searchable database contains over 1600 proven solutions from more than 140 countries to the common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanizing world.
Caledon Institute of Social Policy
Caledon's work covers a broad range of social policy areas including income security (e.g., pensions, welfare, child benefits, Employment Insurance, benefits for Canadians with disabilities), community capacity-building, taxation, social spending, employment development services, social services, disability supports and health. While Caledon focuses on Canadian issues, it draws upon international experience and innovations in social policy. The site contains a search Publications Database.
Calgary Health Region Knowledge Translation Funding Competition 2008
Call for Proposals: Deadline for submission is March 14, 2008.
The Knowledge Translation Department of Calgary Health Region is pleased to announce our first competition for Knowledge Translation Funding. The competition is open to employees and medical staff affiliated with the Calgary Health Region. The University of Calgary faculty, staff and students are also invited to apply.
Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA)
Request For Proposal
Funding for the program is provided by Agriculture and Agri-food Canada. The priority areas fall into four broad key result areas (KRA) which include:
The Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP)
An electronic archive of the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals contain references to scientific papers, text books, and technical articles, published by CARSP members prior to the current year.
Canadian Council on Learning
The purpose of this Request for Proposals (RFP) from the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) is to solicit applied research projects from not-for-profit organizations, community-based organizations, labour organizations, and research or academic institutions on the subject of Health and Learning in Canada.
Canadian eHealth Initiatives Database
Use this online resource to search for Canadian initiatives and programs in the areas of telehealth, electronic health records, education and training, and health information infrastructure.
Canadian Foundation on Fetal Alcohol Research grants
CFFAR is a new funding agency aimed at supporting research on the fetal effects of alcohol.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
CIHR Catalyst Grant Program (2007-2008).[From website] The CIHR Catalyst Grant program provides seed money, on a short-term basis, to support health research activities which represent a first step towards the pursuit of more comprehensive funding opportunities (e.g. operating grants, team grants).
Check the database link below to see available grants and application deadlines. In the Program Type box, select Catalyst Grants.
Click Here - you will be taken to the CIHI web site.
CIHR’s Institute of Health Services and Policy Research
The CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR) and its partners are pleased to announce the launch of the following Winter 2008 funding opportunities:
- Synthesis Grant: Knowledge Translation
- Needs, Gaps and Opportunities Assessments in Health Services and Policy
- Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Health Services and Policy
- Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research
Canadian Mental Health Authority- AB Division
Publications: CMHA has created a complete series of pamphlets with vital information on mental health and mental illness, available in electronic form
Canadian Public Health Association
CPHA is a resources-based association, with a publication department that gives CPHA the strength and expertise needed to act as a special promoter for public and community health issues in Canada.
Canadian RN
Clinical References and Self Directed Continuing Education Resources
The Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative Policy Grants
CTCRI invites all eligible Canadian researchers to apply to our Policy Research Grants program. Policy Research grants are intended to stimulate research that will influence, guide or have a direct impact on policy decisions in tobacco control. Application deadline April 1 and October 1 of each year. No late application will be accepted.
Centre for Health Promotion Studies Research
University of Alberta List of Research Resources, Services & Publications
Centre for Health Promotion Studies Research - University of Toronto Resources & Publications.
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health's Resources
Unique, practical, research-based publications and resources in the fields of substance use and addictions, mental health, concurrent disorders, trauma, policy research, clinical tools, and health promotion
Canadian Congenital Anomalies Surveillance Network (CCASN)
CCASN is a national framework to support interdisciplinary collaboration and networking, bringing together research, surveillance and clinical and public health practices, with the ultimate goal of enhancing the quality of surveillance data and expanding our understanding of congenital anomalies..
Community Access Program (CAP) Youth Initiative
Funding for Youth Initiatives
The Community Incentive Fund (CIF)
The Community Incentive Fund (CIF) is a valuable resource for communities in their continued commitment to supporting families through a co-ordinated, collaborative response to family violence and bullying.
The deadline for submission of the 2008-09 CIF application is February 15, 2008.
Community Preventative Services (USA)
Resources & Publications
Community Spirit Program
Community Spirit Program launched in Alberta. Nonprofit and charitable organizations based in Alberta will benefit from a new donor-driven grant program created to help increase private charitable donations in the province. The Community Spirit Program is composed of a donation grant program and an enhanced charitable tax credit. Available to all eligible nonprofit organizations that provide direct services to Albertans and Alberta communities, grants will be calculated on a proportional basis and based on cash donations received by the eligible organization. The maximum grant is $25,000 per year, with total grants not to exceed $50,000 over three-years. Grants can be used for operations, projects, programming and small capital projects. Program guidelines will be available by April 1. The annual grant submission deadline will be in October. The Alberta government has also raised the charitable tax credit for eligible annual donations above $200 by 60%.
Community-University Partnership for the Study of Children, Youth, and Families
The centre will help develop links among childcare professionals and program directors, policymakers and university-based researchers with related expertise. Provides list of projects and funding opportunities.
Community quality of life approach quality of life
Papers and research instruments written and produced by members of the Quality of Life Research Unit
Donner Awards
Social service agencies invited to apply for Donner Awards. Nonprofit social service agencies have an opportunity to win a share of $70,000 in prize money through the Donner Canadian Foundation Awards for Excellence in the Delivery of Social Services. Award recipients are selected based on a ranking of their performance in ten areas, including management and governance, the use of staff and volunteers, innovation, program cost, and outcome monitoring. The top organizations in each of the nine categories of social service delivery will each recieve $5,000, while the $20,000 William H. Donner Award for Excellence will be presented to the highest performer overall. The Donner Awards' newest honour, the $5,000 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Management, will be presented to a nonprofit organization with a consistent record of excellence and innovation in management and service delivery.
Applicants receive a confidential report that compares their organization's performance to that of similar organizations, allowing them to identify both areas of particular strength and areas where performance can be improved. The deadline for submission is May 15, 2008, and all applications completed online are eligible for a $1,000 cash draw.
Dietitians Canada Nutrition EcoACTION Eldis Health Systems Resource Guide
Resources and an Inventory of Nutrition Dietetic Associated Research
Environment Canada's EcoAction Community Funding Program is delivered by a network of regional offices across Canada. Site also contains a database of funded projects.
A collaboration between Eldis and the Health Systems Resource Centre providing access to the latest and most relevant knowledge on health systems selected from practitioner and research networks on and off the web. Current topic areas include health, poverty and vulnerability, priority diseases, aid policy and financing mechanisms, and health service delivery.
The Epicure Foundation
Community Initiative National Grant Program - The Epicure Foundation™ is pleased to announce the launch of their 2008 National Grant Program supporting Community Initiatives (CI) promoting Food Security in Canada.
