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.

Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellowship Program

The primary goal of The Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellowship Program is to foster the development of a new generation of leaders in the field of aging by supporting investigators in the developmental stages of their careers.

The Foundation is looking for future leaders in aging and, therefore, is not providing Fellowships for people who are already well established in the field. Candidates must demonstrate that they would benefit from a concentrated period of time to undertake a research project with significance in the field of aging. The Brookdale Foundation Group will not consider applicants who have previously applied and been interviewed.

All applications must:
- Provide learning and leadership opportunities for the candidate;
- Involve a project with potential to advance the knowledge base in the field of aging;
- Be based at the sponsoring institution.

Each candidate must:
- Demonstrate leadership potential;
- Provide evidence of an ongoing commitment to a career in aging;
- Have a mentor (or mentors) at the sponsoring institution willing and able to provide professional guidance and will be helpful in the development of the candidate’s career and research project;
- Be willing to commit at least 75 % of his or her time for career development for each of the two years of the Fellowship;
- Propose a project related to the field of aging that displays a meaningful and precisely defined role in his or her career development and has practical implications for the field of aging.

Candidates who are up to ten years from their graduate degree are eligible to apply. Any candidates who are more than 10 years from the graduate degree must explain the particular circumstances that they feel make them eligible for consideration in Section I, Career Information. Examples of special circumstances include: 1) candidates whose period following their graduate degree (including internship, residency and fellowship training) is exceptionally long (e.g., residencies of great length); 2) candidates who, following training in another field have switched to geriatrics; 3) candidates who are changing the focus of their work to the field of aging; and 4) candidates who have had career interruptions due to family responsibilities.

The candidate to the best of his/her knowledge must not be related to any Senior Fellow or to any officer or director of the Foundation nor someone whose selection would result in a private benefit to any Senior Fellow or to any officer or director of the Foundation. (See FAQ for more information.)

While there is no limit to the number of applications that can be submitted by an institution, each institution should exercise discretion in endorsing only those candidates who fit the criteria and eligibility requirements of the Program and whose leadership and research skills make them viable competitors for a Fellowship award. It is expected that an internal Review Panel at each institution, comprised of department heads, senior faculty, gerontologists and geriatricians, will review all candidates and will endorse only those candidates who are the most qualified to be considered for Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellowship awards

Applications must be approved by an authorized person at each institution. As part of the application process, the sponsoring institution must fax a letter endorsing each candidate.

The Fellowship Program supports investigators whose primary work during the two years of the Fellowship grant is the Brookdale Research Project. The Brookdale Fellowship is not intended to supplement other grants or fellowships and will only be awarded to candidates who are committing at least 75% of his/her time exclusively to the Brookdale Fellowship Research for each of the two years of the Fellowship.

The Fellowship Grant is given by the Foundation to the sponsoring institution to provide salary and fringe benefit support for the candidate commensurate with the wage scale of the institution. The Fellowship will be awarded without regard to any individual’s age, race, color, creed, sex, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability, citizenship or sexual orientation.

The funding caps cover 75% of the candidate’s base salary and fringe up to a total of $125,000 relating to candidate’s time devoted to the fellowship.

It is the responsibility of each sponsoring institution receiving Fellowship support to provide not only the mentor’s time and professional expertise, but also all supportive services necessary for the candidate’s research. This includes office and lab space, equipment, supplies, research assistants if needed, conference and travel expenditures, secretarial assistance and all expenditures other than the candidate’s salary and fringe benefits covered by the Brookdale Fellowship. Mentorship and institutional commitment must be assured and are an integral part of the application.

It is the policy of The Brookdale Foundation Group not to allow indirect costs for the administration of this award.

All Applications must be completed online (www.BrookdaleFoundation.org) and should include all required information. There are three sections to the application:
- Candidate information and project description
- Mentor’s role and statement
- Sponsoring institution information, including a letter that must be faxed to the Foundation to confirm their endorsement and commitment to the project.

The deadline for application submission is midnight on Friday, November 10, 2006. Applications will only be accepted through the Brookdale Leadership in Aging Program’s Online Application system (http://blap.ianet.org/blap/terms.html;jsessionid=16E7BE71833212EE506AE50E1BC7609A); no late submissions or submissions sent by mail, email or facsimile will be accepted.

For more information contact:
Nora O’Brien, MA
Director Aging Programs & New Initiatives
The Brookdale Foundation
Phone: (212) 308-7355, ext. 104
Email: norao@brookdalefoundation.org

Ambrose Monell Foundation

Eligibility: Nonprofits in the United States and around the globe.

Funding: Nearly $9.7 million. Grants range from $10,000 to $100,000.

Priorities: You can land support for a wide range of interests: social services, arts, education, health, the disabled, animal welfare, community development, mental health, math, science or seniors.

Comments: Monell gives support for general operating needs, projects, capital campaigns, equipment and research.

Deadlines: Oct. 31 and April 30 for board meetings in December and June.

Contact:
Ambrose Monell Foundation
1 Rockefeller Center, Suite 301
New York, NY 10020-2002
Telephone (212) 586-0700
E-mail at info@monellvetlesen.org
Internet http://www.monellvetlesen.org/monell/default.htm

Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships

Ford Foundation fellowships are designed to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.

Predoctoral fellowships support study toward a Ph.D. or Sc.D.; Dissertation fellowships offer support in the final year of writing the Ph.D. or Sc.D. thesis; Postdoctoral Fellowships offer one-year awards for Ph.D. recipients.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens in research-based fields of study.

Details, including application deadlines, may be obtained at http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fellowships/

National Academies Research Associateship Programs

Postdoctoral and senior research awards are sponsored by thirty federal laboratories at over one hundred locations in the United States and overseas. Awards are given for the purpose of conducting research chosen by the doctoral level scientists and engineers to apply their special knowledge and research talents to research areas that are of interest to them and to the host laboratories and centers.

Details and application deadlines are available at http://www7.nationalacademies.org/rap/.