This solicitation is closed.

Deadline:

Multiple - Closed

Program Area:

Quality/Equality

Purpose:

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is committed to ensuring that all Americans receive high-quality, high-value health care. In 2005 RWJF launched Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change, a national initiative focused on discovering and evaluating innovative interventions to move the disparities field beyond the documentation of racial and ethnic differences in health care to actually implementing efforts to eliminate these gaps in care. Finding Answers focuses specifically on reducing disparities in cardiovascular disease, diabetes and depression; diseases for which the evidence of racial and ethnic disparities is strong and the recommended standards of care are clear.

Program Information:

• Call for Proposals


• Overview

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:

Eligible Types of Lead Organizations and Organization Partnerships

• Only organizations that administer and directly provide an intervention to the target population are eligible to apply. Eligible institutions may partner/subcontract with academic or research groups with evaluation expertise.
• The following types of organizations are eligible as primary/lead applicants:
  -Provider organizations (e.g., medical groups, hospitals, community health centers);
  -Health plans and employers;
  -Other organizations directly involved in health care provision or administration (e.g., a network or consortium of provider groups).
• Applicants must be located in the United States and preference will be given to applicants that are public agencies or are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a).

Key Dates:

• January 6, 2010 (3 p.m. CT) and January 8, 2010 (10 a.m. CT)--Optional applicant Web conference calls. All participants must register online at www.solvingdisparities.org.
• February 4, 2010 (2 p.m. CT)--Deadline for receipt of brief proposals.
• March 4, 2010--Applicants notified if selected to submit a full proposal.
• April 1, 2010 (2 p.m. CT)--Deadline for receipt of full proposals.
• June 14–July 9, 2010--Site visits to selected applicants.
• July 30, 2010--Notification of awards.
• October 1, 2010--Start of grants.

Total Award:

• Up to five awards of up to $400,000 each will fund this fourth round.
• Project periods may not exceed 36 months, including start-up, data collection and analyses.

Contact:

Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change
info@solvingdisparities.org
Office: (866) 344-9800
http://www.solvingdisparities.org

Related Materials:

• View National Program Office

Other Versions:

• Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change (September 18, 2008, Closed)
• Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change (May 17, 2007, Closed)
• Finding Answers (March 16, 2006, Closed)