This call for proposals is closed. Access the latest CFP for the Communities Creating Healthy Environments: Improving Access to Healthy Foods and Safe Places to Play in Communities of Color program.

Deadline:

Feb 26, 2009 - Closed

Program Area:

Childhood Obesity

Purpose:

Communities Creating Healthy Environments is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that aims to prevent childhood obesity by increasing access to healthy foods and safe places to play in communities of color. The program will advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015 by supporting diverse, community-based organizations and federally chartered tribal nations in the development and implementation of effective, culturally competent policy initiatives to address childhood obesity at the local level. Through this call for proposals, RWJF will award grants for policy advocacy to improve food and recreation environments in up to 10 communities at high risk for obesity.

Program Information:

• Call for Proposals

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:

Eligible applicants must have a track record of at least two years of successful community organizing and policy advocacy to address health-related problems in communities of color. Both the leadership and membership of any applicant organization should reflect the communities they seek to serve. Given the program’s focus on young people, youth-led organizing groups and community-based groups with youth-organizing components are encouraged to apply. Applicants must secure a cash match of at least 10 percent of RWJF funding. Organizations that currently receive funding from an industry, corporation, business or other entity or subsidiary of such an entity that markets low-nutrition food and/or beverage products to youth are not eligible to apply.

Proposals will be evaluated based on the selection criteria outlined in the call for proposals.

Key Dates:

• January 20 through February 6, 2009—Optional regional informational sessions for potential applicants to learn more about the initiative. Visit www.ccheonline.org to view dates and locations and to register.
• February 5, 2009 (11 a.m. ET)—Optional Web conference for potential applicants. Register at www.ccheonline.org.
• February 26, 2009 (3 p.m. ET)—Deadline for receipt of brief proposals.
• April 8, 2009—Applicants notified if invited to submit full proposals.
• May 12, 2009 (3 p.m. ET)—Deadline for receipt of full proposals.
• October 1, 2009—Funding initiated.

Total Award:

• A total of up to $2.5 million will be awarded in this round of funding for policy advocacy grants in up to 10 communities nationwide.
• Awards are for a total of up to $250,000 per site over a three-year period.

Contact:

Ditra Edwards, deputy director
cche@thepraxisproject.org
Office: (202) 234-5921

Related Materials:

• View Program FAQs