Deadline:

Jul 17, 2009 - Closed

Program Area:

Childhood Obesity

Purpose:

Active Living Research and Healthy Eating Research are national programs of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that support research to identify promising policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity, promoting healthy eating and preventing obesity.

This call for proposals (CFP) supports time-sensitive, opportunistic studies to evaluate changes in policies or environments with the potential to reach children who are at highest risk for obesity, including African-American, Latino, Native American, Asian-American and Pacific Islander children (ages 3 to 18) who live in low-income communities or communities with limited access to affordable healthy foods and/or safe opportunities for physical activity. Research studies may focus on one or both sides of the energy balance equation—on physical activity (including sedentary behavior), healthy eating or both. Studies funded under this CFP are expected to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.

Grants will be awarded on a rolling basis.

Program Information:

• Call for Proposals

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:

Eligibility requirements include the following:

• Preference will be given to applicants who may be either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
• Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories at the time of application.
• The timing of the program, event or policy change to be studied must justify the rapid-review process in order to answer the proposed research questions.

Complete selection criteria can be found in the CFP.

Key Dates:

• July 17, 2009 (5 p.m. ET)—Deadline for submitting letters of intent.
• Deadlines for receipt of invited full proposals are May 14, 2009, at 5 p.m. ET or August 14, 2009, at 5 p.m. ET, and funding may be initiated as early as October 1, 2009, or January 15, 2010, respectively.
• Funding may be initiated as early as October 1, 2009, or January 15, 2010, respectively.

Total Award:

• Up to $1.675 million total will be awarded for rapid-response research grants, with the majority of funds in this CFP focused on physical activity studies.
• The maximum amount for a single grant is $150,000, with a maximum funding period of 12 months.

Contact:

Chad Spoon, research coordinator (Active Living projects)
cspoon@projects.sdsu.edu
Office: (619) 260-5539

Laura L. Klein, M.P.H., research coordinator (Healthy Eating projects)
healthyeating@umn.edu
Office: (800) 578-8636

Related Materials:

• View National Program Office


• Active Living Research (Grant Results Reports)