The Founders’ Fund was established by the Department of Pediatrics to honor three key “Founders” and educators of our Department: Dr. Paul Palmisano, Dr. Bill Benton, and Dr. Ralph Tiller. These physicians epitomized the ideal academic pediatrician. Thankfully, the dream to honor these esteemed individuals became a reality with the generosity of former and current pediatric faculty and residents. For more than a decade, Founders’ Fund Educational Grants have been used to encourage and support educational endeavors in our Pediatric Residency Program.

The purpose of this grant opportunity is to support new, innovative educational endeavors in our curriculum or in quality and outcomes research related to the Pediatric Residency Program. We look forward to projects that focus on resident education, resident advocacy in the community, and/or quality improvement residency projects. Ideally, these resources support or produce an intervention that otherwise might not be undertaken; might go unfunded; creates a pilot or materials toward a sustainable endeavor and directly impacts our current residents.

2020 Cycle Changes

Given the significant challenges to the regular order of business this past year, we anticipate that many of the 2019-2020 Founder’s Fund recipients were justifiably unable to complete their projects. We seek to support these individuals, groups and projects in this coming year. As such, any project awarded funds last year will be given priority for the 2020-2021 application review. Those seeking a continuation of funds must complete a standard application and include a paragraph explaining the need for the continuation. All applications should indicate how, if successful, this project will impact health inequities or health disparities.

Application Information

Application for a Founders’ Fund Educational Grant is open to all pediatric faculty, pediatric, medicine-pediatric, pediatric-neurology and pediatric-genetic residents, and all pediatric fellows. Priority will be given to grants with resident participation as an investigator. Click on the button below for the complete RFA and details on application requirements. 

Deadline: Monday, June 29 at 9 a.m.