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December 20, 2012 | Program Result
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships is a 25-year-old national program providing matching grants for innovative community-based projects aimed at improving the health and health care of underserved and vulnerable populations.
January 3, 2011 | Book/Issue Brief
This issue of To Improve Health and Health Care, written by leading health journalists, experts from universities and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides an in-depth look into the Foundation's work improving the health and health care of the nation's most vulnerable populations.
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Health interventions that are long-term and place-based are embraced as providing low-income families with comprehensive services. To better understand the benefits from these services, this study assesses the role of residential mobility and the us ...
June 11, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
With that in mind, five years ago I began working with a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins and Penn State to explore what a yoga program might do for kids. We began working with the Holistic Life Foundation (HLF) in Baltimore, Md., a small nonp ...
May 18, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Deborah Bae and Jane Issacs Lowe discuss the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s “Realigning Health with Care.”
January 6, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
New Mexico is 45th of 50 states in prevalence and risk factors for child homelessness, including low family income levels, lack of affordable housing, and lack of access to health insurance. More than 16,000 of our New Mexico children experienced ho ...
December 8, 2011 | Story
A profile of Robert Atkins, PhD, RN, Nurse Faculty Scholar
November 8, 2011 | Story
After living in the projects in Altoona, Pa. as a child, 2011 Community Health Leader provides free van-based health care to the working poor.
October 6, 2011 | Story
Low-income adolescents in historically underserved populations often have limited access to affordable, healthy food and safe places for physical activity.
March 11, 2011 | Program Result
Youth Venture helps teams of young people start and lead organizations and businesses that address social issues and needs that the youth themselves identify.