How to Get Research Grants: Insights from the ACS, NCI and Private Foundations (B002)

Workshop Description

Need grant funding for your research? In this workshop you will hear from three funding agencies: The American Cancer Society, the NCI and from a private foundation. All three fund research projects that focus on reducing disparities; some even have special funding allocated to this area of research. Each has different requirements, eligibility guidelines and dollars to fund you, but all encourage you to apply. At this session you will find out what you have to do (and not do) to increase your chances of securing funding for your projects. You will get both a bird's-eye view and also hear about the nuts-and-bolts. Sign-up sheets for a limited number of individual appointments will be available at the end of the meeting on a first-come, first-served basis. If you want funding for your project, then this is where you need to be.

Workshop Objectives

The participants will be able to:

• identify the funding mechanisms and priorities of the presenting organizations as they relate to the elimination of disparities
• recognize key elements of strong grant applications and associated with successful funding requests

• Workshop B001: Principles and Concepts of Community-Based Participatory Research for Health
  
  
• Workshop B002: How to Get Research Grants: Insights from the ACS, NCI and Private Foundations
  
  

Workshop Faculty

Ronit Elk, PhD, serves as Scientific Program Director for the Cancer Control and Prevention Research at the American Cancer Society. She also directs the program “Research Targeted to the Poor and Underserved.” Since joining the Society Dr. Elk has contributed to the substantial increase in funding of applied research across the cancer continuum, including prevention, early detection, and quality of life; health policy and health services research, as well as a significant increase in funding of research projects focusing on underserved populations. Prior to joining the Society, Dr. Elk was a faculty member of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston where she was the recipient of many grants from the NIH, served on several research panels of the National Institutes on Drug Abuse, and published numerous scientific papers. Dr. Elk is also the author, with Dr. Monica Morrow, of “Breast Cancer for Dummies®.”