Deadline - May 28, 1998. Applicants must be US citizens who are print journalists with at least five years of experience. Reporters, editors, and photo journalists are eligible. The web site also has links to other journalism organizations. These grants are limited to journalists seeking help for investigative pieces involving corruption, malfeasance, incompetence and societal ills in general as well as for media criticism.
Environmental issues are another area of grave concern.
Deadline - The board meets in July and December, and applications should be submitted by the first of the previous month. It is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology. The Fund encourages all theoretical and experimental research that is relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies and prevention. It awards three-year postdoctoral fellowships for beginning researchers to work with a senior scientist . Postdoctoral training in the same institution in which the applicant received his or her degree is discouraged, particularly if it was in the same department Candidates applying to work in foreign-based or United States government laboratories may be awarded a fellowship if they are considered to be especially meritorious or if the program represents an unusual opportunity for postdoctoral training.