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Private Foundation Grants
5-2-02
Patricia Gregory, Ph.D., Senior Director Jeffrey J. Sich, Ph.D., Sr. Associate Director
Catherine Reitz, Program Coordinator
Corporate and Foundation RelationsMedical Alumni and Development Programs
How foundations work
How to find funding sources
– and make sure they are the right ones for you
How we can help you
A few words about gifts from individual donors
Major Topics
What is a Private Foundation?
Usually set up by wealthy business people
Decision makers often are not scientists
Different types of foundations– Independent– Family– Community
Public Charities– American Cancer Society, Amer. Heart Assn.
Examples of Private Funders
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Arnold and Mabel Beckman Fdn Elsa U. Pardee Foundation Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Steven and Michele Kirsch Fdn Retirement Research Foundation Greater St. Louis Health Fdn Missouri Foundation for Health Charles A. Dana Foundation Burroughs Wellcome Fund McKnight Endowment Fund
for Neuroscience Merck Genome Research Institute
Ellison Medical Foundation Robert Wood Johnson Fdn Brookdale Foundation Concern Foundation CaP Cure Sidney Kimmel Foundation Susan G. Komen Foundation Rockefeller Brothers Fund Deaconess Foundation John Merck Fund William T. Grant Foundation John A. Hartford Foundation Whitehall Foundation
How a Foundation Makes Grants
Driven by the interests of the founder
Looks for investment opportunity
Priorities often in lay language• Cancer, public policy, scholarships, social services
• Can’t search by specific research areas like cell signaling, growth factors, ion channels, apoptosis
Some use peer review, like NIH– Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Howard Hughes Medical
Institute, Pew and Searle Scholars, etc.
Kinds of ProjectsFoundations Prefer to Fund
Start-up funding for new investigators
Projects that Washington University
is uniquely qualified to undertake
Projects that push current technological limits
Too risky for federal funding• but don’t submit rejected NIH renewal proposals
How Development Can Help YouRefine a list of Foundation Funding Sources
Refine a database search– Retrievals from SPIN, Community of Science, Foundation
Center, often too large to pore through
Most foundations are too small
Most have no staff
Geographic restrictions
Family foundation, not a “funding agency”
May only accept one proposal from WU
Deadline for Internal Competition Status Program Amount01/23/2002 CLOSED Mary Kay Ash Foundation Grants for Translational Research in Cancer $100,000 over two years01/24/2002 OPEN Pfizer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
in Infectious Diseases $65,000 per year for three years
01/31/2002 OPEN Louis and Artur Lucian Award $50,000(CAN)
02/01/2002 OPEN Clinical Investigator Award $200,000 per year for five years
02/12/2002 SELECTION Kirsch Investigator Program $100,000 per year for two yearsPENDING
02/15/2002 OPEN Ellison New Scholar Award in Aging $50,000 per year for up to four years
02/15/2002 CLOSED Ellison New Scholar/Global Infectious Dis $50,000 per year for four years
02/21/2002 OPEN Shared Instrumentation Grant $100,000 to $500,000
03/13/2002 OPEN CBWF Career Awards at Scientific Interface$500,000 over five years
03/15/2002 OPEN The ARA Program: A Focus on the Science $50,000 per year for up to two years
03/18/2002 OPEN Packard Fellowship/Science 7 Engineering$125,000 per year for five years
If no internal nominations are received by the internal deadline, the competition remains open until all positions are filled with eligible candidates.
“I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.”
Blaise Pascal 1623-1662
Strong Letters of Inquiry
Short, concise, clear
Say it up front: “We’re looking for funding”
Briefly describe the project
Describe why it fits this foundation
No references, minimal attachments
The Importance of
Working with Development
Save time, focus on the right funders
Long-term relationships with foundations
Institutional spokesperson
“Clearance” protects the foundation from
unwanted multiple funding requests
– Also keeps WU informed of faculty approaches
Good stewardship: Very important!
Mismatched:University Needs and Foundation Interests
Foundations have become proactive
– Interests are precisely defined
Most foundations look for small, short-term
projects with immediate impact
Only 4% of money to science and technology
Competition with community organizations– Urgent needs—food banks, health care for the needy
– This is especially true of local foundations
Local Foundations
Proximity allows closer relationship
Multiple institutional contacts
– WU Alumni serve on boards
– Interests in multiple WU schools
Site visits more common
But there are only five in St. Louis that
support scientific research
– And only two accept proposals from faculty
Summary
Institutional history is important
Save time by calling us early in the process
Foundations are a good source for new
faculty awards
Local foundations: Call us first
Good stewardship is essential
Help with Private Foundation Grantsfor Washington University faculty
Patricia Gregory, Ph.D., Senior Director Jeffrey J. Sich, Ph.D., Sr. Associate Director
Catherine Reitz, Program Coordinator
http://intramed.wustl.edu/ocfr/ocfr.nsf/home
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