Making a Difference Program 2024

The Greenwall Foundation is requesting proposals for the Fall 2024 cycle of its bioethics grants program, Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas. Donor Name: The Greenwall Foundation State: All States County: All Counties Type of Grant: Grant Deadline: 06/17/2024 Size of the Grant: Not Available Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned Details: The Making a Difference program supports research to help resolve important emerging or unanswered bioethics problems in clinical, biomedical, or public health decision-making, policy, or practice. The Greenwall Foundation only makes awards to affiliated individuals at institutions with tax-exempt status with the United States Internal Revenue Service. The Foundation’s vision is to make bioethics integral to decisions in health care, policy, and research. The mission is to expand bioethics knowledge to improve clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice. Projects funded under the Making a Difference program should promote the Foundation’s vision and mission through innovative bioethics research that will have a real-world, practical impact. Priority Topics While foundation welcomes all innovative proposals that will have a real-world impact, they are particularly interested in proposals that address the ethical and policy issues raised by the following priority topics: Trust in science, medicine, and public health; Bias and discrimination in health care, which may be based on a broad range of characteristics; Public health crises (related to, for example, emerging infectious diseases, climate change, and the opioid epidemic), including their impact on mental health; Healthcare access, costs, and resource allocation. Proposals for projects that address other real-world, practical bioethics problems are also welcome. Guidance for Proposal Projects may be empirical, conceptual, or normative. All proposals should explain how they will help address a real-world bioethics dilemma. Projects to analyze the normative implications of already-completed empirical research are encouraged. The Foundation will support mentored projects in which a postdoctoral fellow or early-career faculty member works closely with an experienced bioethics scholar. The Foundation will also consider pilot or feasibility projects to evaluate an innovative intervention to resolve a bioethics dilemma, with the goal of obtaining funding from other sources for a larger evaluation or demonstration project. In evaluating proposals, the Foundation will consider: The ways in which the project promotes the Foundation’s vision and mission and supports the Foundation’s strategic priorities. Importantly, projects that aim to impact public policy must not constitute advocacy projects with predetermined conclusions. The project’s approach, including its innovative nature, and how it relates to (and builds on) current scholarship. The appropriateness and rigor of the methods, analysis plan, and strategy. The likelihood that the project will impact policy or practice. The appropriateness and inclusiveness of the project’s planned approach to dissemination and implementation, including to stakeholder audiences beyond academia and key individuals who can change practice or policy. The professional backgrounds of the research team, including the team’s expertise in relevant disciplines and their familiarity and experience with the bioethics problems to be addressed, and their success in carrying out similar projects. Early-career investigators are advised to apply with a mentor who actively collaborates in all phases of the project. The success of the research team in publishing practical bioethics articles and disseminating the results of their research to relevant stakeholders outside of academia. The reasonableness of the budget and project timeline. Projects with smaller budgets and shorter timelines will receive priority. For more information, visit The Greenwall Foundation.