Private Funding Sources

http://www.soros.org/death/index.htm

The mission of the Soros Foundation's Project on Death in America (PDIA) is to understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement through initiatives in research, scholarship, the humanities, and the arts, and to foster innovations in the provision of care, public education, professional education, and public policy.

The Faculty Scholars Program of the Project on Death in America supports outstanding clinical faculty who are making a commitment to improving end-of-life care, and provides support for disseminating existing models of good care, developing new models for improving care of the dying, and developing new approaches to the education of health professionals about the care of dying patients and their families.

Community Support for Grief and Bereavement
The Project on Death in America is prepared to fund innovative strategies to make services available to support individual and community bereavement, or to develop educational programs about grief and bereavement. Applications will be welcomed from organizations providing community services, including faith-based communities and hospices. Strong preference will be given to applicants who demonstrate a commitment to the use of trained volunteers. In addition, special consideration will be shown to applicants whose programs demonstrate cultural competence in addressing bereavement needs, to applicants who will expand knowledge about programmatic effectiveness, and to applicants whose programs are likely to be replicable in other communities. All applicants must demonstrate a realistic plan for obtaining financial support to sustain their proposed program beyond the term of this grant. Grants will range from a total award of $50,000 to $75,000 for a period of 18 to 24 months.

http://www.abbott.com/citizenship/fund/fund.shtml

Abbott Laboratories provides the primary financial support of the Abbott Laboratories Fund. The Fund is primarily designed to provide support through cash grants to United States-based recipients who operate in the areas of health and welfare, education, culture, art, and civic and public policy.

The Fund concentrates educational support on institutions whose programs and services have the potential to provide short and long-term benefits to the health care industry and its employees. This includes basic research programs in the following areas: physical and biological sciences, medicine and pharmacy, nutrition, and diagnostics .

http://www.alz.org/Researchers/RGP/overview.htm

The Alzheimer's Association provides leadership to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research, while enhancing care and support services for individuals and their families.

They offer a number of research grants, fellowships, and awards.

The American Digestive Health Foundation^SM ADHF^SM is the unified voice of the leading gastroenterology and hepatology societies -- the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) - working together for better digestive health. Established in 1995, ADHF's mission is to advance digestive health through financial support of research and education in the cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of digestive and liver diseases. The ADHF achieves this goal through the support of leading scientists and digestive disease medical specialists in partnership with industry and individuals.