Duke Endowment Grants Health Care Division and Child & Family Wellbeing Division
Sponsor: Duke EndowmentInternal Deadline: 10/01/2024Institutional Submission Limit: varSponsor Deadline: 12/15/2024Program Website
The Offices of the Vice President for Research and Corporate and Foundation Relations are pleased to invite internal applications for the Duke Endowment, Health Care Division and Child & Family Wellbeing Division.
Health Care
The Duke Endowment seeks to improve health status and reduce health disparities in the Carolinas by ensuring all people can access timely and appropriate health care, lead a healthy lifestyle, and have their basic social needs met. Improving health and reducing health disparities requires communities and the health care system to innovate. The Health Care division looks for opportunities to support the development and testing of new approaches that can outperform the current standard of care. These new approaches will require robust evaluation plans that can build the evidence necessary to understand what works and accelerate the systemic reforms necessary to scale and sustain best practices. The Health Care program seeks to consider new ways to optimize person-centered and community-based approaches to improving health.
Most grants will follow one of two strategies. However, the Endowment welcomes all topics, provided they fall within either one of the strategies or priority areas. We have learned from past funding cycles that the Duke Endowment generally does not support projects focused on HIV/AIDS.
• Improving Community Health: The Duke Endowment advances programs and policies that promote healthy lifestyles and address social determinants of health. They create opportunities for collaboration to meet community needs and ensure that local voices inform improvements. Additionally, they prioritize data collection and sharing so that partners are better equipped to identify opportunities and target interventions.
• Enhancing Patient Care: The Duke Endowment works with health systems and their community-based partners to identify, test, and spread innovative practices that have the potential for scale and sustainability. They prioritize models that build capacity to provide essential health and social services to vulnerable populations, increasing access to culturally appropriate care.
Within these two overarching strategies, Duke also has identified 3 key funding priorities:
• Maternal and infant health, especially prioritizing prenatal and postpartum preventative care for vulnerable populations. Examples may include, but are not limited to, supporting innovative workforce models such as Doulas, Nurse Midwives and Community Health Workers, leveraging virtual care technology and predictive analytics, and ensuring access to appropriate behavioral health services.
• School-based mental health, supporting communities in the development of comprehensive and integrated systems of care for school-aged children.
• Strengthening the health care workforce, especially 1) developing a pipeline to train a diverse workforce, including outreach programs, mentoring and experiential opportunities, and 2) addressing burnout and promoting resiliency.
Child & Family Wellbeing
Child & Family Wellbeing funds implementation support for public and private child- and family-serving agencies to adopt and sustain evidence-based and evidence-informed programs shown to prevent or treat child maltreatment. Additionally, Child & Family Wellbeing’s Commitment to Innovation recognizes the lack of evidence-based or -informed models for the range of issues children and families face and the diverse populations served. They also support grantees in developing and testing innovative, tailored, data-driven approaches. Models that specifically look at risks and solutions through the lens of race are prioritized.
Faculty from all system campuses are eligible to apply to the Duke Endowment; the lead PI must be an employee of the University of South Carolina. While the Duke Endowment does not have a stated budget ceiling, successful past proposals typically have had budgets in the range of $100,000 - $250,000 in annual direct costs (the Duke Endowment’s Health Care Division does not allow indirect costs). Projects should be 2 or 3 years in length. The Duke Endowment strongly prefers proposals that leverage other funding resources.
Timeline for the FY 2025 Winter Duke Endowment competition:
• USC Internal applications due by 5 pm October 1, 2024
• Notification of review decisions and selection no later than October 25, 2024
• Application deadline to The Duke Endowment by 5 pm December 15, 2024
• Funding decisions by July 1, 2025
Submission Process
Limited submissions MUST be coordinated with the Office of the Vice President for Research.
If interested in applying for this opportunity, please combine the following items into a single PDF and email to resdev@mailbox.sc.edu by 5pm on the INTERNAL DEADLINE above:
- Duke endowment-USC internal proposal template here, following the word counts
- a 2-3 page CV/biosketch for the PI and any collaborators