NIH Grant:

Title: Emotional Well-Being: High-Priority Research Networks (U24, Clinical Trial Optional)

Funding Number: RFA-AT-20-003

Full Proposal Due Date: 04/22/2020

# of awards/funds available: The following NIH components intend to commit the following amounts in FY 2021: NCCIH, $1,200,000; NIA, $400,000; NICHD, $200,000. Together, the NIH components will support 2-3 awards.

Description: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications that focus on developing resources by refining and testing key concepts that will advance and further support the study of emotional well-being. This infrastructure grant mechanism will facilitate research networks through meetings, conferences, small-scale pilot research, multidisciplinary cross training (such as intensive workshops, summer institutes, or visiting scholar programs), and information dissemination to foster the growth and development of research in the following priority areas: (1) Ontology and measurement of emotional well-being; (2) Mechanistic research on the role of emotional well-being in health; (3) Biomarkers of emotional well-being; (4) Prevention research (mechanism-focused intervention development in target populations); (5) Technology and outcome measure development for mechanistic studies; (6) Development and validation of well-being measures. Applications must propose new, high-impact activities to advance at least one (minimum) and up to three (maximum) of these high-priority research areas.

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AT-20-003.html    

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health:

See Active Funding Opportunities.

https://nccih.nih.gov/grants/funding

Varela Grants:

Application Period: August 19 – September 16, 2020

Funding decisions announced in December

This grant program encourages the active collaboration of scientists with contemplative scholars/practitioners in all phases of research. Grants of up to $20,000 are awarded annually through a competitive application, review, and selection process.

https://www.mindandlife.org/varela-grants

Oberweiler Foundation

Because the Foundation does not have the staff to review lengthy submissions, it does not accept unsolicited grant applications that are already fully developed. The Foundation requests a letter of proposal describing the proposed project. Even if your organization has received funding from the Oberweiler Foundation in the past, a new letter of proposal must be submitted first.

Letters of Proposal may not exceed two typed pages and must include:

• A description of the agency and its history;

• A mission statement;

• A project description including why the project is needed, how it will be carried out, who will be served and where, how success will be evaluated, and how the project relates to the Foundation’s targeted areas of giving;

• Financial overview including an indication of the amount and terms of the grant request, how the funds would be used, the grant amount compared to the total project budget, and any other sources of funding available

• Name and contact information

http://fdnweb.org/oberweiler/guidelines/

NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Funded R01 to study mindfulness-based interventions in racially/ethnically diverse low-income women with substance use disorders.

Principal Investigator: Hortensia Amaro, PhD

"Neural Mechanisms of women’s early recovery"    2015-2019

A gap in knowledge persists regarding the use of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) with racially/ethnically diverse low-income women with substance use disorders (SUDs), especially regarding the efficacy of adapted MBIs for preventing residential dropout and decreasing relapse. The long-term goal of this proposal is to improve treatment outcomes in racially/ethnically diverse low-income women with SUDs by targeting stress, residential dropout, and relapse.

Sponsor: NIDA for $2.2 million.

NIH/National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

Funded R01 to prevent type 2 diabetes in adolescents

Principal Investigator: Marc J. Weigensberg, MD

"Guided imagery lifestyle intervention to prevent and treat obesity in Latino youth"      2013-2018

The overall aim of this study is to isolate the contribution of each of the major components of the Imagine HEALTH intervention (didactic lifestyle education, stress-reduction guided imagery, and behavioral guided imagery) on short-term (12-week) and long-term (15 month) stress-reduction and behavioral outcomes in predominantly Latino high school students.