The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority
Welcome to this List
Serv sponsored by the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authoritys Rural Funding
Coordination Project. These messages
provide information about current government and private grants, conference and
training opportunities, publications, and potential funding sources, with an
emphasis on rural Alaska.
The State Division of
Public Health is
seeking proposals from eligible applicants for the HIV Care Program, which is administrated through the State. This three-year program is designed to work
with and through HIV care consortia to assure a comprehensive continuum of
primary medical care and supportive services for low-income individuals with
HIV infection and their families.
Organizations that intend to apply must complete and return a Notice of
Intent to Apply form included in the RFP.
The deadline is April 30. For
more information, contact Larry Bussone at 907-465-2349 or visit www.hss.state.ak.us.
The U.S. Department of
Agricultural Rural Development office is accepting applications for grants and loans
under its Distance Learning and
Telemedicine Program. Applicants must match at least
15 percent of the grants, which can range from $50,000 to $500,000. The deadline is April 30. For more information, contact Wesley Lannen
at 360-666-2741 or visit www.usda.gov.
The Gerber Foundation is soliciting letters of
inquiry for grants of up to $500,000 for research on the health and nutrition
of children from infancy to age three.
The goal is to provide grants for pediatric-health research that reduces
the incidence of serious chronic illness and to improve the cognitive, social,
and emotional aspects of a childs development.
The deadline is June 1. For more
information, call 231-924-3175 or visit www.gerberfoundation.org.
Arthur Vining Davis
Foundations
provide health care grants that focus on projects that have positive effects on
physician-patient relationships and that encourage compassion, caring attitudes
in the delivery of health care services.
The foundations give preference to projects that have the potential for
widespread duplication. There is no
deadline. For more information, contact
Jonathan Howe at 904-359-0670 or visit www.jvm.com/davis.
The Fred Meyer
Foundation
provides program support in the areas of youth development and reducing
hunger. The foundation does not award
grants for capital campaigns, national organizations, individuals, political
activities, lobbying organizations, conference, religious organizations or
endowment funds. The deadline is April
15. For more information, contact Mary
Loftin at 503-797-5605 or visit http://www.fredmeyer.com/corpnewsinfo_charitablegiving.htm.
Developing Major
Gifts: Turning Small Donors into Big Contributors details how to implement a
system for raising significant gifts from individuals. It also discusses how to identify, research,
and organize prospect information for a comprehensive approach to building
dynamic, ongoing donor relationships.
There are examples from a variety of institutions and varied levels of
staffing and budgets. The cost is
$49.95. For more information, visit www.amazon.com.
The Foraker Group is dedicated to assisting nonprofits strengthen
their organizations in a variety of ways, including board and staff
trainings. Foraker is offering the
following workshops:
April 2 1:00-5:00
Advocacy Training Fairbanks
April 5 9:00-11:00
Board Roles and Responsibilities Juneau
April 5 1:30-3:30
High Performing Boards Juneau
April 7 9:00-11:00
Board Roles and Responsibilities Anchorage
April 8 9:00-11:00
High Performing Boards - Anchorage
April 8 9:00-11:00
Nonprofit Financial Reporting Kodiak
April 8 12:00-2:00
Planning for Wills and Estates Kodiak
April 9 9:30-11:30
Board Roles and Responsibilities Ketchikan
April 9 12:00-2:00 -
High Performing Boards Ketchikan
April 12 12:30-2:30
Board Roles and Responsibilities Sitka
April 12 3:00-5:00
High Performing Boards Sitka
April 20 3:30-5:30
Board Roles and Responsibilities Wasilla
April 20 6:00-8:00
High Performing Boards Wasilla
April 22 2:30-4:30
Planning for Wills and Estates Anchorage
April 26 12:00-2:00
Board Roles and Responsibilities Soldotna
April 26 2:30-4:30
High Performing Boards - Soldotna
For more information or
to register, contact Karma Tomlinson at 907-743-1205 or visit www.forakergroup.org.
The beneficiaries of
the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority include those Alaskans experiencing
mental illness; developmental disabilities; chronic alcoholism; or Alzheimers
disease or related dementia. You can
learn more about the Trust at www.mhtrust.org.
The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority's Small Projects Funding program is
designed to create new services of direct benefit to Trust beneficiaries. These services are not normally funded by
another part of government. They can be
innovative, new program ideas, or substantially improve and
supplement existing activities. They can
also significantly increase the quality of ongoing projects. Each small project is limited to a maximum of
$10,000. The intent is to spend
half of the Small Projects Fund ($250,000 yearly) on high quality
rural projects.
The deadlines are February 1, June 1 and October 1. For more information,
call 907-269-7960 or visit www.mhtrust.org.
The Alaska Mental
Health Trust Authority funds The
Foraker Group to offer free technical assistance to those organizations
that provide services for Trust beneficiaries in rural areas. For more information, contact Thea Agnew at
907-222-5424 or thea@agnewbeck.com.
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