The Osher Collaborative Exchange Program, funded by The Lunder Foundation, awards grants to enrich the Collaborative’s clinical, educational, research, and administrative endeavors and strengthen our community. The program supports this goal in two ways: 

• Awarding grants for onsite travel to an Osher Center location. Components of these visits must include meaningful and mutually beneficial activities, such as collaboration on clinical, educational, research, or administrative initiatives, guest lectures or teaching, formal and informal discussions with Center members, or participation in the host site’s significant events. The host Center, visitor(s), and the Collaborative should benefit from the exchange of ideas.
• Supporting the gathering of a medium-to-large group of Collaborative members in a focused working group session to create, refine, or expand programming across Osher Centers and the Collaborative. These working meetings should happen in conjunction with another national academic conference or meeting, such as the Osher Collaborative Annual Meeting, and should include members representing multiple Osher Centers.

Both types of awards will enhance productive relationships across the Collaborative by facilitating in-person collaboration, enabling the contextualized sharing of best practices, encouraging new partnerships, and increasing momentum toward multi-site projects.

Staff and faculty from all eleven Osher Centers are eligible to apply.  

You can access more materials here, including the application and FAQs.



The brief application will include:

• Reason for (value of) visit
• Planned activities
• Anticipated outcomes
• Involvement of host Center
• Length of stay
• Budget and justification
• Agreement to share summary of visit results

Applications will be evaluated on: mutual benefit, potential to build and enhance relationships, focus on timely topic, and momentum towards shared projects. If you are curious if your proposal is a good fit, please do not hesitate to reach out.

Applications are due by Thursday, November 6. Send completed applications via email to: lisa.howard@ucsf.edu

If you are unable to meet this deadline, but are interested in the program, please contact Lisa Howard.