Deadline:

Mar 7, 2006 - Closed

Program Area:

Childhood Obesity

Purpose:

Healthy Eating Research is a new national program which will support research to identify, analyze and evaluate environmental and policy strategies that can promote healthy eating among children and prevent childhood obesity. Special emphasis will be given to research projects that will benefit children in the low-income and racial/ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. This first round of funding focuses on school food policies and environments.

All proposals for this program must be submitted through the RWJF Grantmaking Online system.

Program Information:

• Call for Proposals

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:

• Preference will be given to applicants who are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a).
• Applicant organizations must be based in the U.S. or U.S. territories.
• The focus of this program is the United States; studies of policies in other countries will be considered only to the extent that they may directly inform U.S. policy.

See CFP for selection criteria.

Total Award:

A total of approximately $3 million will be awarded in this round of funding for two types of research grants:

Studies to identify and/or evaluate promising school food environment and policy changes. These include:

• 12- to 18-month awards of up to $100,000.
• 18- to 36-month awards of up to $400,000.

Analyses of macro-level policy or system determinants of school food environments and policies:

• 12- to 18-month awards of up to $75,000.

Related Materials:

• View National Program Office