221500 Securing Funding for Community-Engaged Scholarship

Sunday, November 7, 2010 : 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Sarena D. Seifer, MD , Community Campus Partnerships for Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
Community-engaged faculty and their community partners must be as pro-active as possible in pursuing sources of funding for their work together. This presentation will review a wide range of funding sources available to support community-engaged scholarship, both public and private, local/regional and national. Current funding opportunities will be highlighted, as well as tips and strategies for staying on top of new opportunities as they arise.

Just as important as securing funding is making decisions about what funds are needed and how they will be distributed. Though funding agencies are beginning to increase their financial support for community-engaged scholarship, these resources are still limited. It may be difficult for partners to identify funding opportunities that both encourage community collaboration and understand the nuances of CBPR. Partnerships may find themselves responding to funding opportunities just to get funds to support and sustain their activities, when the funding source or specific request for proposals (RFP) does not genuinely “get” community-engaged work. When considering funding opportunities, partnerships are advised to establish criteria that will determine whether the group will prepare a proposal in response to a given funding opportunity or RFP. These criteria could consider, for example, does the funding agency appear supportive of collaborative approaches? When is the proposal due? Does it allow enough time to receive adequate feedback from the partners that will be involved? What is the time-frame for funding? Is this time appropriate for the activities being proposed?

Learning Areas:
Ethics, professional and legal requirements
Other professions or practice related to public health
Program planning

Learning Objectives:
*Identify funding sources for service-learning, community-based participatory research and other community-engaged work *List three promising practices and three common pitfalls when writing grant proposals for community-engaged scholarship *Explain how to decide whether to pursue a particular funding opportunity for community-engaged work

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I co-authored a directory of funding sources for community-based participatory research (CBPR) for the Northwest Health Foundation and co-founded the CBPR Funders Interest Group that is comprised of over 40 funders in the U.S. and Canada. In my role as Executive Director of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, it is a core part of my job to track funding trends and sources for community-engaged scholarship.
Any relevant financial relationships? Yes

Name of Organization Clinical/Research Area Type of relationship
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Program Administration Employment (includes retainer) and Travel has been paid for in part by the Community Campus Partnerships for Health.

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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