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Usually when someone is awarded a grant, there are stipulations as to how the funding is spent and how long you have to spend it. Well there was recently two grants awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, as “genius grants” at $500,000 each, with limitations on how they spend the money [...]

Stop! Children’s Cancer Inc is a local Florida non-profit organization that has awarded altogether $3.5 million in grants over 28 years for research in finding cures for children with cancer, specifically focused leukemia, glioblastoma and neuroblastoma strains. They recently awarded a $150,000 grant to three local cancer researchers through programs like The Fantasy Event at [...]

Diabetes isn’t known for a high mortality rate, but does make life very difficult, particularly Type 1, which is still in need of a cure. Scientist Jeff Frelinger and his colleagues are trying to stem the tide. By applying antivirals that will kill of any signs of diabetes cells, diabetics could be able to enjoy [...]

Maricopa County nonprofits has been making great efforts to improve their surrounding community and it has paid off for them in a big way. The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust gave them a grant for $4.3 million, they also awarded grants to the to the Center for Sustainable Health located in Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute [...]

With Obama’s objective of reforming health care still looms over us since he made it such a hot topic, but hasn’t made any head way yet. The forming of a co-op health care system seems quite imaginary at this point because thee point of it is to be ran by non-government-officials while depending on them [...]

As an American, what do you think the biggest plight effecting our children is, gangs, drugs, dropping out? No, as surprising as it is, more American children, like our adults, suffer from obesity. Besides the health risk factors, the other major problem with obesity is that other countries have people dying from starvation and we [...]

When most people see a bear, their first reaction is to turn and run away, but not for people like Bryan Peterson who just received a grant to help research bear-human interactions. He is the founder of a non-profit organization that studies interactions between bears and humans, also finding our peaceful common grounds and recording their [...]

The League of Women Voters Education Fund has handed out a number of grants, one of which the League of Women Voters Wilmington has received; though no exact amount was stated for the grant. They in turn ran an “audit” to test responsiveness of various town departments on information and public record requests of various [...]

The PNM Fund will be taking applications from teachers who want to energy-related ideas and projects with their students. This will end up being more beneficial for the students in the end, but the chance to learn and bond with their students will be the biggest reward for the teachers. If the teacher applying for [...]

Out of the over 2500 people who applied for the European Research Council starting grants, less than 10% – 219 – received grant funds. A Portuguese research group, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, received a 1.6 million Euro, or nearly $2.3 million US dollars for neurological mechanism research. Their chief research goal is learning how to control [...]