Greater Value Portfolio Grant

Grants to USA Investigators for
Healthcare-Related Research

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Donaghue Foundation

LOI Date:

05/11/20

Deadline Date:

08/10/20

Description:

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Grants to USA investigators at tax-exempt research institutions for research related to healthcare. Applicants must submit an LOI prior to submitting a full application. Under this grant program, researchers will partner with healthcare service providers to test promising strategies that organizations can readily use to improve the value of the healthcare they provide to patients and communities.

Eligible topics include studies that focus on improving value through promising strategies using one or more of these approaches:

Test models of care, coverage or system change that seek to improve value by addressing one or more of the symptoms of low value (for symptoms of low value, see the URL for Full Text)
Reduce routine treatments, tests, and screenings for patients for whom the potential harms (including financial harm) outweigh potential benefits
Provide tools to help consumers make decisions about their healthcare based on value, including the cost of care to patients, in addition to other patient-centered factors
Promote conversations between patients and their clinicians and care teams about preferences and trade-offs related to alternative treatment options and /or out of pocket cost burden to patients and families
Test interventions geared to reducing racial and ethnic disparities through the provision of higher value healthcare

Grant funds may be used to support the following:

The principal investigator’s salary (consistent with the applicant institution’s policy), project staff salaries, and employee benefits
Data processing expenses, and other direct expenses including equipment and research participant expenses
Appropriate expenses of the partnering organization to facilitate their support of the research; and costs associated with disseminating research findings.

The majority of the expenses are expected to support the research study.

GrantWatch ID#:

GrantWatch ID#: 155209

Number of Grants:

The Foundation intends to fund up to five Greater Value Portfolio awards in 2020.

Estimated Size of Grant:

The Trustees will commit up to $400,000 per award plus a 10% indirect rate to each selected investigator.

Term of Contract:

The duration of the award is two years. The grant term begins on January 1, 2021.

Eligibility:

See RFP and/or Grant Guidelines for full eligibility

Additional Eligibility Criteria:

This program is open to investigators at tax-exempt research institutions in the United States. In order to receive the award, the applicant must partner with an organization that delivers healthcare services. The applicant must also provide evidence of the likelihood that positive research findings will be implemented by the partnering organization and others to bring greater value to health and healthcare. Acceptable partnerships include 1) a researcher based at a research institution partnering with a healthcare organization, or 2) a researcher based in a research unit embedded within a health system.

Applicant must have an MD, PhD or equivalent and strong research credentials.

Funds may not be used for:
- All or part of the salary and fringe benefits for secretarial or clerical assistance not related to the research,
- Any administrative costs including professional membership and subscriptions,
- New construction or the renovation of existing facilities,
- Support of ongoing research projects not an integral part of the investigator’s research program, except with express Foundation approval,
- Indirect cost of more than 10% of the direct cost of the project for either the applicant organization or any partnering or subcontracted organizations.

Topics that are not considered relevant to the purpose of the program are efficacy trials, basic research, or research using animal models.

Pre-Application Information:

Timeline for Application Process
- March 17, 2020: Information webinar posted
- May 11, 2020: Letters of intent due
- June 8, 2020: Notice of LOI decision
- August 10, 2020: Applications due
- November 2, 2020: Funding decisions will be made
- January 1, 2021: Grant term begins

The application process will have two phases. Phase 1 is a letter of intent. The LOI form must be submitted electronically by the principal investigator. Following a review of all letters of intent, Phase 2 will begin by inviting some applicants to complete a more substantial application.

Applicants are invited to contact the Foundation with questions about eligibility, suitable research topics, application procedures and forms, submission requirements, or other questions about the Greater Value Portfolio program by emailing Stacy Cloud at the email address in Contact Information, below.

Contact Information:

Before starting your grant application, please review the funding source's website listed below for updates/changes/addendums/conferences/LOIs.

LOI forms and applications must be submitted electronically to Stacy Cloud at cloud@donaghue.org.

The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation
18 North Main Street
West Hartford, Connecticut 06107-1998
860.521.9011
office@donaghue.org

URL for Full Text (RFP):

See the full text of this grant

Geographic Focus:

USA: Alabama; Alaska; Arizona; Arkansas; California; Colorado; Connecticut; Delaware; Florida; Georgia; Hawaii; Idaho; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kansas; Kentucky; Louisiana; Maine; Maryland; Massachusetts; Michigan; Minnesota; Mississippi; Missouri; Montana; Nebraska; Nevada; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New Mexico; New York City; New York; North Carolina; North Dakota; Ohio; Oklahoma; Oregon; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; South Carolina; South Dakota; Tennessee; Texas; Utah; Vermont; Virginia; Washington, DC; Washington; West Virginia; Wisconsin; Wyoming

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