In
This Issue:

Justice Improvement Awards
– Foundation for Improvement of Justice

Page 1

HIV/AIDS Program Funding –
John M. Lloyd Foundation

Page 2

Clothing and Monetary
Donations – Men’s Wearhouse

Page 3

Youth-Led Social Change
Funding – Ms. Foundation for Women

Page 4

Mental Health Research
Grants – Schizophrenia and Depression

Page 5

Justice
Improvement Awards

Foundation
for Improvement of Justice, Inc.

Purpose
– To encourage improvement in the various systems of justice
through recognition and awards. 
The purpose is accomplished through an annual awards program,
which honors innovative and effective efforts by individuals and
groups.  Recognition and
awards are provided in the following areas: simplification of the
law; crime prevention; child protection; speeding the process;
effecting restitution; crime victims’ rights; alternative
sentencing; reducing recidivism; lowering the cost; and other
significant efforts.

Eligibility
– Public or private agencies or organizations as well as
individuals that contribute at all levels of the justice system. 
Self-nominations are not accepted. 
The awards are for innovative programs, which have proven
effective and can serve as models for others. 
A reference book describing successful programs that have
been recognized is available for the cost of shipping ($5.00) to the
address below.

Process
– With a cover letter, include a two-page, double-spaced,
typewritten summary of the nominee’s accomplishments. 
Specific requirements regulate the nomination letter process.

Funding
– The Foundation annually recognizes and awards up to 10 nominees
with a check for $10,000 at an awards banquet in Atlanta. 

Due Date
– Nominations by June first each year for that year’s awards.

Contact
 – Foundation for
Improvement of Justice, Inc.

201
Saint Martin Drive

Suwanee,
GA 30024

or
www.justiceawards.com/nominations.htm.

HIV/AIDS

Program
Funding

 John
M. Lloyd Foundation

Purpose
– To identify and understand the impact of the root causes of the
growing worldwide HIV/AIDS crisis. 
The Foundation prefers to fund research that is original,
that requires only limited investment initially, and that appears
likely to leverage larger funding from other sources. The Foundation
also supports novel entrepreneurial ideas that have high likelihood
of affecting social change with regard to HIV/AIDS.

The Foundation funds innovative programs throughout
the world in:

Public Policy –
poverty, political instability, gender and racial inequality, human
and civil rights abuses, and lack of access to education,
information and high quality healthcare and social services fuel the
spread of HIV.  The
Foundation supports enlightened public policy that advocates for
improved access to HIV/AIDS care and services, relevant efforts,
effective prevention programs and successful education initiatives
worldwide.

Education/Awareness
– a major barrier to treating and preventing HIV/AIDS is the lack
of access to accurate information about HIV and people affected by
the disease.  Lack of
knowledge results in stigma, fear, hatred, high-risk behavior and
inferior treatment for people living with HIV. 
The Foundation funds programs that promote education,
awareness and compassion about HIV/AIDS worldwide. 

Prevention
– The paradox for the HIV/AIDS crisis is that while the infection is
not yet curable, it is preventable. 
The means to end further spread of the disease is to prevent
new infections from occurring. 
The Foundation supports sound HIV prevention efforts aimed at
men, women and children worldwide.

Medical
Research – The HIV/AIDS epidemic cannot be controlled until a
vaccine is found.  Those
who are already infected need treatments that are affordable,
efficacious and cause minimal side effects. 
The Foundation directs its attention to supporting medical
research that focuses on the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. 
Recognizing however that resources are limited compared to
the scope of research efforts in HIV/AIDS, the Foundation gives
preference to seed grants and small workshops that stimulate new
directions for research.

Eligibility
– Organizations that are 501 c 3 organizations for exempt
purposes, and comport with applicable restrictions regarding
lobbying, campaigning, etc. 

Process
– Applicants seeking support for new projects must submit a
concept letter describing the specific project for which funding is
sought before a formal proposal is submitted. 
Applicants whose concept letters are reviewed favorably by
the Board will be asked to submit a formal proposal. Unsolicited
formal proposals will not be considered. 
Applicants may submit only one formal proposal per year. 

Funding
– Grants range from $10,000 – $20,000.

Due
Dates – Concept letters are due December 15 for the Spring
Cycle and July 15 for the Fall Cycle. 
Formal proposals must be completed by February 1 for the
Spring Cycle and September 1 for the Fall Cycle.

Contact
–

John
M. Lloyd Foundation

11777
San Vicente Boulevard, Suite 745

Los
Angeles, California 90049

Telephone
– 310-622-1050;

Fax
– 310-622-1070;

or
www.johnmlloyd.org.

Clothing
and Monetary Donations

 Men’s
Wearhouse

Purpose
– To support nonprofit organizations that have values and concerns
similar to the company, employees and customers, within the
markets where the company does business. 

The
company provides donations of sponsorships, advertising, gift
certificates, merchandise, or monetary donations.

Men’s Wearhouse operates in the following Ohio
cities: Akron, Beavercreek, Boardman,
Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Dublin, Fairlawn, Mayfield, Mentor,
North Canton, North Olmstead, Strongsville, and Toledo.

Eligibility
– Nonprofit organizations with tax exempt status. 
The company is unable to make a donation to individuals not
sponsored by a nonprofit organization.

Process
– Nonprofit organizations requesting a donation from Men’s
Wearhouse are required to make the request on the organization’s
letterhead 60 days prior to the date the contributions are required,
and to provide the full name, address, fax and telephone numbers or
the requesting organization. 

Requests
must also include: the organizations mission statement; if it’s a
clothing donation only, what reason or accomplishments has the
recipient exhibited that requires recognition or necessity of
clothing, e.g. clothing for participation in the Welfare to Work
program, etc.; the number of individuals that the organization is
assisting in the particular request; the type of donation –
sponsorship, advertising, certificate, merchandise or monetary
donation only; the date the request is needed.

Due Dates – Sixty
days prior to the date the request is needed. 

Contact
–

Men’s Wearhouse

Corporate Donations
Department

40650 Encyclopedia Circle

Fremont, California 94583

Telephone – 1-800-777-8580

http://www.menswearhouse.com/home_page/our_company/co64_giving_back_main.jsp?bmUID=1005687281639 

Youth-Led
Social Change Funding

Ms.
Foundation for Women

Collaborative
Fund for Youth-Led Social Change

Purpose
– to strengthen girl-only and mixed-gender youth organizations
that support non-traditional roles for both young women and young
men as they work together in new ways to create positive social
change.  Social
change is defined as working to create changes in the attitudes,
thinking and practices of individuals and systems. 
Involving youth in social change requires a shift from
unquestioning acceptance of the way things are to developing an
understanding and collective strategy to engage communities and
institutions to address injustice at a systemic level. 

Specific
objectives of the Fund are to:

·        
Support and document innovative social change models that
combine the best practices of positive youth development and youth
civic engagement with gender consciousness;

·        
Strengthen the connection between girls’ programming and
youth programming;

·        
Increase funding to support innovative girl-only programs and
gender-conscious mixed-gender programs. 

The
program focuses attention on youth ages 9-18; and for programs with
a track record or vision for activities that address the
developmental needs and strengths of youth, as well as a plan for
youth-led social change action. 
Youth-led means that
participants must be able to take leadership on and participate in
program planning, design and implementation (e.g. strategic
planning, proposal and curriculum development, research and
documentation).

Eligibility
–

Organizations
with 501 c 3 tax-exempt status, or have a fiscal agent with tax
exemption:

·        
Represented by youth in active and/or formal leadership
positions in the staff, Board or other advisory groups;

·        
Represented by women in leadership positions on the Board and
staff;

·        
Represented by the community served in leadership positions
on the Board and staff;

·        
Committed to diversity (e. g. age, gender, race, ethnicity,
class and sexual orientation) among Board, staff and youth program
participants.

·        
Open to strengthening existing organizational and program
capacity and outreach.

This Fund does not support individuals,
national organizations, state or regional intermediaries; research
institutions or “think tanks;” or capital endowment campaigns.

Process
–

A Letter of Intent, no more than two pages, will be due November 30,
2001, outlining:

·        
A brief description of the organization and the community in
which it operates and evidence of institutional support for the
youth program;

·        
A statement of the opportunities and challenges facing youth
in the community;

·        
A brief description of the proposed program and activities
that address the above, highlighting those aspects that address the
priorities described in the Program Eligibility Criteria (for
mixed-gender programs, specific examples of how the program
addresses the needs and strengths of young women and men;

·        
A brief overview of expected program outcomes, including
examples of the impact on the youth participants and their
community;

·        
Examples of active and/or formal youth leadership in the
program. 

The
Fund will not accept any Letters of Intent by fax or email. 
See Letter of Intent Summary Sheet at the end of the
program description http://www.ms.foundation.org/YouthFund01.pdf
.

Funding
–

·        
Grants of $35,000 per year for up to three years will be
awarded to 10 to 12 organizations serving youth between the ages of
9-18 years. 

·        
Approximately six to eight grants will be awarded to
organizations with programs serving girls and young women.

·        
Approximately four to six grants will be awarded to programs
working with both girls and boys or young women and young men. 

Due Dates
–

Letter
of Intent – by November 30, 2001;

Notification of request for
full proposal, December 14, 2001;

Full proposals received by
February 1, 2002;

Notification of grant
awards, by June 30, 2002.

Contact
–

Collaborative Fund for
Youth-Led Social Change

Ms. Foundation for Women

120 Wall Street, 33^rd
Floor

New York, NY 10005

Tel. – 212-742-2300; Fax
– 212-742-1653.

http://www.ms.foundation.org/publications.html
and click on the first Funding Opportunity on the top right of the
page. 

Mental
Health Research Grants

 National
Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression

2002
NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Awards

Purpose
– the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and
Depression (NARSAD) is the largest non-governmental, donor-supported
organization that distributes funds for brain disorder research. 
NARSAD was founded in 1986 by the National Alliance for the
Mentally Ill, the National Mental Health Association, the National
Depressive and Manic Depressive Association and the Schizophrenia
Foundation (now disbanded). 

The
2002 NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award program supports
basic and/or clinical investigators, but research must be relevant
to schizophrenia, major affective disorders or other serious mental
illnesses including research with bipolar disease, borderline
disorders with depression and suicide, or research with children. 
The program is designed to stimulate the development of key
personnel and resources to facilitate the rapid initiation of
research in innovative areas and to enable investigators to create
unique scientific opportunities. 

Eligibility
– Applicants must be full professors (or equivalent) and maintain
peer-reviewed competitively funded scientific programs. 
Scientists that have previously received a NARSAD
Distinguished (Established) Investigator Award may not receive the
award for a second time until five years have elapsed since the
beginning date of the prior award. 

Process
– A small number of letters of intent will be selected for further
review with additional information requested. 
The second tier of applications will also be brief, but will
provide the investigator an opportunity to provide more detail on
methods, potential significance, feasibility and institutional
support.

Funding
– The 2002 NARSAD
Distinguished Investigator Award offers up to $100,000 for a
one-year period.  Funding
of institutional overhead at an 8% rate (excluding equipment) is
allowed and overhead must be included within the total budget
request, which may not exceed $100,000.

Due
Date – Guidelines and accompanying face sheet are available
for download as of April 1, 2002 at www.narsad.org. 
Letter of Intent must be received by May 15, 2002, with the
grant to begin May 1, 2003.

Contact
–

Ms. Audra Moran

Director, Research Grants
Program

NARSAD

60 Cutter Mill Road, Suite
404

Great Neck, NY 11021

Telephone – 800-829-8289

Fax – 516-487-6930, www.narsad.org

2002
NARSAD Young Investigator Award

Eligibility
– To enable promising investigators to either extend their
research fellowship training or to begin careers as independent
research faculty.  Pre-doctoral
students are not eligible for this award. 
Basic and/or clinical investigators are supported, but
research must be relevant to schizophrenia, major affective
disorders or other serious mental illnesses, including research with
bipolar disease, borderline disorders with depression or suicide,
and research with children.  Applicants
must have an on-site mentor who is an established investigator in
areas relevant to schizophrenia, depression or other serious mental
illness.  

Process
– Guidelines and an accompanying face sheet are available for
download April 1, 2002 at www.narsad.org.  Application submission due date is July 25, 2002. 
Earliest beginning date is July 1, 2003. 

Funding
– Award opportunities of up to $30,000 per year for up to two
years (maximum $60,000) are open to advanced post-doctoral fellows
or assistant professors (or equivalent) and are offered to enable
promising investigators to either extend their research fellowship
training or to begin careers as independent research faculty. 

Due
Date – Guidelines and accompanying face sheet are available
for download April 1, 2002 at
www.narsad.org. 
Application submission due date is
July 25, 2002.

Contact
–

Ms. Audra Moran

Director, Research Grants
Program

NARSAD

60 Cutter Mill Road, Suite
404

Great Neck, NY 11021

Telephone – 800-829-8289,

Fax – 516-487-6930

 www.narsad.org

2002
NARSAD Independent Investigator Award

Eligibility
– Scientists at the academic level of associate professor or
equivalent, who have won national competitive support as principal
investigators to facilitate innovative research opportunities. 
Research must be relevant to schizophrenia, major affective
disorders or other serious mental illnesses.

Process
– Guidelines and accompanying face sheet are available for
download in December 1, 2001 at www.narsad.org.  Application submission deadline is March 5, 2002, with
notifications made in August 2002. 
Earliest grant beginning date is September 15, 2002.

Funding
– Awards up to $50,000 per year for 2 years (maximum $100,000) are
provided to enable the scientist to facilitate innovative research
opportunities.

Due
Date – Application submission deadline is
March 5, 2002. 
Updated Guidelines will be available online
beginning December 1, 2001. 

Contact
–

Ms. Audra Moran

Director,
Research Grants Program

NARSAD

60 Cutter Mill Road, Suite
404

Great Neck, NY 11021

Telephone – 800-829-8289

Fax – 516-487-6930, or www.narsad.org

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