RWJF - Open Calls For Proposals

Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders

webmail@rwjf.org — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders is a collaborative initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Center for Creative Leadership. The initiative aims to enhance the leadership capacity of community-based nonprofit health organizations serving vulnerable populations. RWJF is committed to leadership development and improving the health of all Americans, particularly those in the most vulnerable communities—where people are often economically disadvantaged and have limited educational opportunities and inadequate access to health services.

Ladder to Leadership focuses on developing critical leadership competencies for 270 early- to mid-career professionals through an innovative, 16-month leadership development curriculum.

The program will be delivered in nine priority communities on a staggered schedule over the next four years. Each phase of the three-part curriculum includes a mixture of face-to-face training sessions, individualized executive coaching and mentoring, and team project work—all anchored within the context of the communities in which these leaders live and work to maximize the application and impact of the program concepts.

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Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) - 2008

webmail@rwjf.org — Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:00:00 EST

This program supports policy analysis, research, evaluation and demonstration projects that provide policy leaders timely information on health care policy and financing issues. This Call for Proposals is intended to support projects that: 1) examine significant issues and interventions related to health care financing and organization and their effects on health care costs, quality and access; and 2) explore or test major new ways to finance and organize health care that have the potential to improve access to more affordable and higher quality health services.

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships: Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence - 2010 Call for Proposals-Round 2

webmail@rwjf.org — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships is a matching grants program that connects the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with local grantmakers to fund new, community-based projects to improve health and health care for vulnerable populations. This special solicitation seeks nominations from diversity-focused funders for projects to reduce violence in traditionally underserved communities that are defined by race, ethnicity, tribe, gender, sexual identity or rural/frontier location.Deadline:

Health Impact Project - Advancing Smarter Policies for Healthier Communities

webmail@rwjf.org — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, encourages the use of health impact assessment (HIA) to help decision-makers better assess proposed policies, projects and programs with respect to their impact on health, in order that they may avoid adverse health consequences and costs and improve health. We are issuing this call for proposals to demonstrate the effectiveness of HIAs and promote their incorporation into local, state, tribal and federal decision-making.

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Active Living Research and New Connections Grant Opportunities - 2010 Call for Proposals

webmail@rwjf.org — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST

This program supports research to inform policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity among children and adolescents, decreasing their sedentary behaviors and preventing obesity. We place special emphasis on strategies with the potential to reach children and youths ages 3 to 18 who are at highest risk for obesity: African-American, Latino, American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian-American and Pacific Islander children, as well as children who live in under-resourced and lower-income communities. Grants funded under this call for proposals (CFP) are expected to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.

This CFP consists of grant opportunities for specified research topics and dissertation awards. It also includes funding opportunities for New Connections grants made available through the Active Living Research program.Deadline: Apr 14, 2010

Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change - 2009 Call for Proposals--Round 4

webmail@rwjf.org — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

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.

Deadline: Apr 1, 2010

Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program - 2009-2010 Call for Applications

webmail@rwjf.org — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program was established to increase the number of faculty from historically disadvantaged backgrounds who can achieve senior rank in academic medicine and who will encourage and foster the development of succeeding classes of such physicians. Four-year postdoctoral research awards are offered to universities, schools of medicine and research institutions to support the research and career development of physicians from historically disadvantaged backgrounds who are committed to developing careers in academic medicine and to serving as role models for students and faculty of similar background. The program defines the term “historically disadvantaged” to mean the challenges facing individuals because of their race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status or similar factors.Deadline: Mar 17, 2010

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars - 2009-2010 Call for Applications

webmail@rwjf.org — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars program fosters the development of physicians who will lead the transformation of Americans’ health and health care. These future leaders will conduct innovative research and work with communities, organizations, practitioners and policy-makers to address issues essential to the health and well-being of all Americans.
Program highlights include:

leadership training;
local, regional and national mentoring; protected research time;
national networking;
health services and community-based research training; and
financial support for research projects and professional travel.

Deadline: Feb 26, 2010

Communities Creating Healthy Environments: Improving Access to Healthy Foods and Safe Places to Play in Communities of Color - 2010 Call for Proposals-Round 2

webmail@rwjf.org — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

Communities Creating Healthy Environments (CCHE) 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.

Deadline: Feb 25, 2010

Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) - Call for Proposals--Round 5

webmail@rwjf.org — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

The Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) will generate, disseminate and translate research to improve the quality of patient care. It supports interdisciplinary teams of scholars from nursing and other disciplines to address gaps in knowledge about the relationship between nursing and health care quality.Deadline: Feb 17, 2010