(Posted: 11-5-09)
Application Deadline: December 4, 2009
The National Poverty Center (NPC) at the Gerald R. Ford School of
Public Policy, University of Michigan seeks proposals for innovative
research projects that use data from the 2004 and/or 2008 SIPP Panels.
The NPC anticipates funding up to 8 proposals. Awards will range from
a maximum of $20,000 for research using SIPP public-use data and/or
SIPP Synthetic Beta (SSB) data, to a maximum of $40,000 for research
using SIPP Gold Standard restricted-use data and/or comparative
analyses using SIPP Synthetic Beta (SSB) and SIPP Gold Standard
restricted-use data. Grants will begin February 1, 2010 and end
January 31, 2011. Funds for this competition are provided by the U.S.
Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economics Statistics Division.
For details, please visit:
http://www.npc.umich.edu/opportunities/research_grants/sipp/index.php
Proposals will be considered that use earlier waves of SIPP data, but
the project must use data from the 2004 and/or 2008 SIPP Panels, or
from the SIPP Synthetic Beta (SSB) or SIPP Gold Standard
restricted-use data. Comparisons of estimates from various data
sources and studies on the effects of program participation on
low-income populations are also encouraged. Possible research topics
include, but are not limited to:
• Investigating spell length and transitions to and from use of
government programs, such as TANF, Food Stamps, WIC, SSI, unemployment
insurance, etc.;
• Analyzing the interaction of employment and unemployment with
participation in government programs;
• Elucidating the various mechanisms accounting for relationships
between family structure/changes and indicators of well-being broadly
defined to include income, material hardships, health or mental
health;
• Focusing on the well-being of both adults and children in analyses
of the impact of family structure and change; disentangling the
effects of income on family structure/transitions;
• Focusing on men's or women's work lives, family transitions, and
well-being;
• Examining the transitions and/or spells in health insurance
coverage and their relationship to other transitions.
About the NPC
The National Poverty Center (NPC) is a university-based, nonpartisan
research center. The NPC conducts and promotes multidisciplinary,
policy-relevant research on the causes and consequences of poverty;
provides mentoring and training to young scholars; and disseminates
findings to the broad policy community. Major funding for the NPC is
provided by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
To subscribe to periodic announcements from the National Poverty
Center, please contact npcinfo@umich.edu
National Poverty Center
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
University of Michigan
Joan and Sanford Weill Hall, Suite 5100
735 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091
(734) 615-5312
(734) 615-8047 fax
www.npc.umich.edu
PreK-3rd Research and Evaluation Small Grants Program
(Posted: 9/2/09, Due: 11/2/09)
The Foundation for Child Development (FCD) announces a request for proposals for its PreK-3rd Research and Evaluation Small Grants Program. A maximum of two awards of up to $50,000 each will be awarded to researchers proposing to use one or more datasets from the PreK-3rd Data Resource Center. The deadline for proposals is November 2, 2009.
The PreK-3rd Data Resource Center is designed to expand the knowledge base and provide tools for the access and handling of Prekindergarten through Third Grade longitudinal data. The goal of this project is to inform the Foundation for Child Development's PreK-3rd initiative and build the research field by facilitating the analysis of rich, complex, longitudinal datasets that contain a wide range of variables on the child, family, school, and neighborhood. The Web site disseminates datasets and user guides developed to provide researchers with detailed guidance in creating their own extract datasets.
Grand Challenges Explorations
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
(Posted: 10/9/09, Due: 11/2/09)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for the Grand Challenges Explorations, a $100 million initiative to encourage bold and unconventional global health solutions. Anyone can apply, regardless of your prior experience or institutional affiliation. Previous winners include graduate students, entrepreneurs at start-up companies, and creative thinkers from all fields of research.
Sign up here to receive more information about Grand Challenges Explorations and other future opportunities.
Proposals are currently being accepted online until November 2, 2009 on the following topics:
• Create New Ways to Protect Against Infectious Disease
• Create Low-Cost Diagnostics for Priority Global Health Conditions
• Create New Ways to Induce and Measure Mucosal Immunity
• Create New Technologies for Contraception
Click here to apply now.
Initial grants will be $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to $1 million. Full descriptions of topics and application instructions are available at: http://www.grandchallenges.org/explorations. We look forward to receiving innovative ideas from scientists around the world and from all scientific disciplines.
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and, therefore, cannot take responsibility for the accuracy of the information in them.
