Together on Diabetes: Communities Uniting to Meet America’s Diabetes Challenge

Posted by on November 29, 2010

Funding supports diabetes program targeting black women

The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation has announced the launch of Together on Diabetes: Communities Uniting to Meet America’s Diabetes Challenge, a five-year, $100 million initiative designed to help patients living with type 2 diabetes better manage their disease.

The program’s first request for proposals focuses on African American women, one of the highest risk groups for type 2 diabetes based on prevalence and disease burden. The purpose of the RFP is to encourage, identify, and promote new evidence-based approaches to empowering African American women to control their diabetes while taking into account the opportunity they have to influence the health of their families and communities as well.

Established nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations and academic institutions working at the community level are eligible to apply for support under this RFP. Partnerships are encouraged.  For more details, visit here.

http://www.bms.com/togetherondiabetes/apply-for-grants/Pages/default.aspx

January 31, 2011      Deadline for submitting proposals