Deadline: 19-Oct-22
The Lung Ambition Alliance is seeking applications for Initiatives in Lung Cancer Care (ILC2) to support patient and caregiver initiatives that will improve the quality of care and close gaps in the patient experience of lung cancer care around the world.
ILC 2 is looking to fund innovative, promising, and proven projects around the world that can be supported and scaled to transform patient outcomes. It is deliberately ambitious, and they intend to learn throughout the program about what works in achieving the goal.
The program has been created in recognition of the high variation in lung cancer care management around the world and specific local barriers to quality patient-centric solutions. The projects supported by the fund will help change the pace of progress in lung cancer survival, contributing to the goals of the Lung Ambition Alliance to improve 5 year survival rates and eliminate lung cancer as a leading cause of death. This year, they are excited to include projects related to small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) within the broader grant program.
Aims
- Fund projects that drive measurable improvements across the patient journey, from early detection to palliative care or survivorship, in alignment with the Lung Ambition Alliance strategic pillar, Enhance Quality of Care.
- Have a positive impact on the quality of life of patients and caregivers involved in the projects
- Learn about what really works, build the evidence base, and share that knowledge.
Categories
- Early-stage innovation and capacity building.
- These projects are typically:
- Early-stage projects that might be scoping or testing new approaches that appear to work locally
- Projects with potential for future learning or scaling up
- Projects led by smaller organisations
- These projects are typically:
- Developing and testing promising approaches at regional/sub-national level.
- These projects typically:
- Build on previous activities that have been successful at a local level
- Present robust data and evidence on patient need and how the activities and outcomes may meet this need
- Offer potential to influence regional or national policy
- Are able to leverage new direct partners as part of the project
- These projects typically:
- Strategic projects for partnerships and larger organisations.
- These projects typically:
- Take place at a regional or national level
- Include a higher number of beneficiaries than the other categories
- Are ambitious, high potential, and/or strategic projects
- Are based on robust data and evidence (eg, including a logic model)
- Offer potential for further scaling or replication
- Offer potential to influence regional or national policy
- Are able to satisfy a higher level of due diligence and reporting
- Could be made up of strategic partnerships, larger organisations, or consortia of local partners (not essential).
- These projects typically:
Funding Information
- Category 1 Requests up to USD $15,000.
- Category 2 Requests up to USD $15,001–$25,000.
- Category 3 Requests up to USD $25,001–$100,000.
Eligible Projects
- Are ambitious and aligned with the Lung Ambition Alliance’s objectives
- Focus on quality of care for patients at risk of, or living with, lung cancer
- Involve patients or focus on the experience and needs of patients or caregivers
- Have an evidence base, or are innovative and have an intention to build the evidence base, with potential for scaling or replication
- Engage patients in advocacy activities
- Provide peer-to-peer support
- Show potential to leverage future funding or influence the care system to improve outcomes for patients
- Go beyond risk reduction to support patients at different stages after first diagnosis
- Address disparities in diagnosis and treatment in order to improve outcomes for patients
- Cover a diverse range of geographic locations.
Eligibility Criteria
- Grant applications are welcome from charitable or non-profit organisations worldwide which are involved in the care and support of patients with lung cancer. Organisations should be registered as a charity or non-profit in their country.
- Current ILC 2 grant holders may apply again this year, but only for a new program, not for an extension of their currently funded program as there is still much to learn from the existing projects. In addition, they wish to discover new and innovative improvements in lung cancer care.
- Priority will be given to projects that:
- Are well thought through, with realistic and measurable outcomes
- Demonstrate a high potential for impact on patients
- Move from ideas into action or build on existing success
- Are innovative
- Have the potential to scale up or influence policy
- Are in low- or middle-income countries.
For more information, visit https://www.lungambitionalliance.com/our-initiatives/initiatives-in-lung-cancer-care.html