Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation Seeks Proposals for Novel Biomarkers to Accelerate Drug Discovery for Frontotemporal Dementias
Frontotemporal Dementias (FTD) specific biomarkers that reflect pathological differences are needed to select appropriate patients for clinical trials and monitor target‐specific responses to investigational treatments. The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) and The Association for Frontotemporal Dementias (AFTD) challenge scientists to meet this unmet medical need by submitting applications through this Request for Proposals (RFP).
 
2011 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy The Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy is awarded
The Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy is awarded annually to an outstanding grantmaker whose leadership and thoughtful application of philanthropic resources have forged permanent improvements in health through innovation, risk taking, and boldness.
 
Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is accepting applications for its annual national grant competition. The grantmaking program is designed to help develop or expand projects that support the development of literacy skills for adult primary care givers and their children.

To be eligible for funding, the applicant organization must have nonprofit or public status and must have been in existence for two or more years. The organization must operate an instructional literacy program that has been in existence for at least two years and includes one or more of the following components: literacy for adults, parent education, pre-literacy or literacy instruction for children pre-K to grade three, and/or intergenerational literacy activities (parent and child together time).
 

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