If you are interested in these or any other private funding opportunities, please contact Jim Dauer at 577-6468 or jdauer@wayne.edu.

The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR) can assist you with private funding prospect identification, proposal development including grant writing, and the coordination of a variety of university resources. Please see CFR’s website http://www.dev-alumni.wayne.edu/giving/corpfound.php for more information.

For more information and/or application materials relating to announcements in this section, please contact Jim Dauer, Development and Alumni Affairs, 577-6468.

Procter & Gamble

OVERVIEW
Procter & Gamble has one of the strongest portfolios of quality, leadership brands, including Pampers, Tide, Ariel, Always, Whisper, Pantene, Bounty, Dawn, Pringles, Folgers, Charmin, Downy, Lenor, lains, Crest, Actonel, Olay, Head & Shoulders and Wella. The P&G community consists of almost 110,000 employees working in more than 80 countries.

GIVING
Procter & Gamble supports wide-ranging programs directly responding to its commitment to enrich the overall quality of life in society. These include:
• A well-defined program of philanthropy, primarily through The Procter & Gamble Fund.
• Programs that strengthen education.
• Programs encouraging greater employment opportunities for women and minorities.
• Programs aimed at developing and implementing the technology required to solve environmental concerns.
• Programs to encourage employee involvement in civic activities and the political process.

Further, P&G encourages its employees to volunteer their time and efforts in their communities.

P&G directly contributes to sustainable development by providing products and services that improve the lives of consumers, whether in terms of health, hygiene or convenience. Through the company’s activities, it also contributes to the economic and social well-being of a range of other stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, local communities in which it operates, and more widely to regional, national and international development.

The P&G Fund is a private foundation designed to coordinate the distribution of money to charitable organizations in communities where P&G is located. The fund focuses on the development of children in need, ages 0-13, through its global P&G Live, Learn and Thrive corporate cause.

Additional information on the company and its foundation is available on its Web site. U

One P&G Plaza
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Internet: http://www.pg.com/company/our_commitment/community.jhtml
Telephone: (513) 983-2141
B.J. Sasson
Manager of Corporate Cause and Volunteer Support

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces New Initiative to Promote Healthy Eating Among Children

Deadline: March 7, 2006

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (http://www.rwjf.org/) has launched Healthy Eating Research (http://www.healthyeatingresearch.org/), a five-year, $16 million program to evaluate changes in policies and environments that can promote healthy eating among children.

Healthy Eating Research was created to build and strengthen evidence needed to halt the epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States. The program will fund research that identifies, analyzes, and evaluates environmental and policy approaches that can promote healthy eating and prevent obesity among children, particularly in low-income and racial/ethnic communities where childhood obesity is most prevalent. This first round of funding focuses on school food policies and environments.

Preference will be given to applicants who are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a). Applicant organizations must be based in the U.S. or U.S. Territories.

To help build a multidisciplinary field of research, Healthy Eating Research seeks proposals from a variety of investigators in a range of fields, including agriculture, behavioral science, business, economics, education, law, marketing, medicine, nutrition, political science, psychology, public health, public policy, and urban planning. The perspectives of researchers who are knowledgeable about racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in school and school-related community food environments are especially needed.

A total of approximately $3 million will be awarded in this round of funding for two types of research grants: 1) Studies to identify and/or evaluate promising school food environment and policy changes (12- to 18-month awards of up to $100,000; and 18- to 36-month awards of up to $400,000); and 2) Analyses of macro-level policy or system determinants of school food environments and policies (12- to 18-month awards of up to $75,000).

For the complete Healthy Eating Research Call for Proposals, see the RWJF Web site.

RFP: http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/5002438/rwjf/cfp/her

For additional RFPs in Health, visit: http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_health.jhtml