The Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging awards up to 4 grants of $20,000 each year. Selections are made on or about December 15 of each year.

1. What Are the Objectives of the Grants?
   
   The Center recognizes the need for further research and scholarship about new or improved public policies, laws and/or programs that will enhance the quality of life for the elderly (including those who are poor or otherwise isolated by lack of education, language, culture, disability, or other barriers).
    
2. What Kinds of Projects Will be Funded?
   
   The Center expects grantees to meet the objectives of the grant program through individual or collaborative research projects that:
    
   • Analyze and recommend changes in one or more important existing public policies, laws, and/or programs relating to the elderly; or
      
   • Anticipate the need for and recommend new public policies, laws, and/or programs for the elderly necessitated by changes in the number and demographics of the country's and the world's elderly populations, by advances in science and technology, by changes in the health care system, or by other developments.
      
   Scholars in the fields of health, law, medicine and sociology have been awarded grants. Topics are described at http://www.borchardcenter.org/grant_recipients_argp.html.
   
   IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE RESEARCH PRODUCT WILL BE PUBLISHABLE IN A FIRST-RATE JOURNAL.
    
3. Who May Apply?
   
   This Request for Proposals is open to all interested and qualified legal, health sciences, social sciences, and gerontology scholars and professionals. Organizations per se, whether profit or non-profit, are not eligible to apply, although they may administer the grant. However, two or more individuals in the same institution or different institutions may submit a collaborative proposal.
    
4. How Much Funding is Available?
   
   We will make no more than 4 grants of up to $20,000 each annually. Larger budgets using outside matching funds are encouraged but not required. Favorable weight will be given to proposals that indicate, where appropriate, that active attempts will be made to solicit required additional funds for the project (including a list of sources to be approached). Grant funds may be used for the approved budget purposes, which may include reasonable compensation for the principal investigator(s), consultant(s) and research assistants, print and computer-based research materials, and other necessary expenses. Ordinarily, summer salary support will not be approved where the applicant(s) is eligible for significant support from his or her university or other institutions. Grant funds may not be used for university overhead or administrative charges, and the Foundation will not otherwise pay any such costs.

Deadline: September 30, 2009. For more information and details please visit their web site.

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