Deadline: 10-Jun-22
Genentech and Genentech Foundation’s 2022 Health Equity and Diversity in STEM Innovation Fund is now open for applications!
Genentech and the Genentech Foundation established the Innovation Fund to catalyze novel solutions to improve equity in clinical research, health care delivery, and the science and health care workforce. It is one mechanism for advancing Genentech’s ambitious Diversity & Inclusion goals and its commitment to transforming society, by addressing the critical challenges that impact their industry’s ability to innovate on behalf of patients.
Aims
- Health Equity: Increasing representation of communities of color in clinical research and eliminating inequities in care delivery
- Workforce Diversity: Dismantling barriers to a diverse, inclusive and antiracist scientific and health care workforce.
- Advancing Health Equity: Genentech is accepting initial applications from prospective partners aimed at pioneering new approaches to engage patients of colour across the research to care continuum.
- Strengthen understanding and take action to address systemic racism within clinical trial research and health care delivery. For example:
- Address bias or structural barriers.
- Address clinical policies and practices that result in poorer quality of care for people of colour.
- Institutional transformation toward being fully inclusive, antiracist and multicultural.
- Build accountability for health equity through collaboration between communities and health systems and/or clinical research teams. For example:
- Shift power, agency and resources to community members and patients.
- Community-partnered care delivery.
- Strengthen understanding and take action to address systemic racism within clinical trial research and health care delivery. For example:
- Promoting Diversity in STEM: Genentech is accepting initial applications from prospective partners working to build a more diverse and inclusive future of health care and science.
- Graduate Education Pathways: Reduce barriers to entry and increase diversity.
- Community-Building: Strengthen networks or initiatives to support advocacy and/or community-building around equity.
- Systems Change: Challenge and transform existing systems and structures.
- Promoting Diversity in Undergraduate STEM Pathways (Genentech Foundation): The Genentech Foundation is accepting initial applications from prospective partners working to build a more diverse and inclusive future of health care and science.
- Undergraduate: Create new models of support for students historically excluded from STEM fields to pursue science and medicine careers, especially transfers to four-year colleges and universities from community colleges.
- Advancing Health Equity: Genentech is accepting initial applications from prospective partners aimed at pioneering new approaches to engage patients of colour across the research to care continuum.
Funding Information & Duration
- For Aims 1 and 2, they invite grant applications ranging from $250K to $750K over the course of 18 to 36 months.
- For Aim 3, they invite grant applications ranging from $150K to $300K over the course of 12 to 36 months.
Restrictions
Applicants must be recognized by the IRS as a tax exempt, public charity under sections 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code or be a U.S. governmental organization (such as public schools, public colleges and universities, public hospitals, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments).
In order to be eligible for this type of funding, the funding must not be used for:
- Projects taking place outside of the United States.
- The purpose of developing clinical practice guidelines (e.g., statements that include recommendations intended to help practitioners make appropriate health care decisions for specific clinical conditions).
- Religious purposes.
- Promotion of a Genentech or Roche product or to influence formulary decisions.
- Research involving or undertaken in relation to Genentech or Roche products (whether investigational and/or approved for other uses).
- Accredited Independent Medical Education.
- Proposal budget cannot exceed 33% of organizational budget and indirect administrative overhead costs cannot exceed more than 25% of the grant amount.
For more information, visit https://www.gene.com/good/giving/corporate-giving/rfp-genentech-2022-innovation-fund