RWJF - Open Calls For Proposals

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

webmail@rwjf.org — 2008-05-23 00:00:00.0

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 — 2003-01-27 00:00:00.0

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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Active Living Research/Healthy Eating Research Rapid-Response Grants

webmail@rwjf.org — 2008-05-19 00:00:00.0

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.

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research - 2008-2009 Call for Applications

webmail@rwjf.org — 2008-07-15 00:00:00.0

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research program helps to develop a new generation of creative health policy thinkers and researchers within the disciplines of economics, political science and sociology. Each year the program selects up to 12 highly qualified individuals for two-year fellowships at one of three nationally prominent universities with the expectation that they will make important research contributions to future United States health policy.

Deadline: Oct 22, 2008

Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program - 2008-2009 Call for Applications

webmail@rwjf.org — 2008-04-15 00:00:00.0

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program is designed to build the nation's capacity for research, leadership and policy change to address the multiple determinants of population health. The program is based on the principle that progress in the field of population health depends upon multidisciplinary collaboration and exchange. Its goal is to improve health by training scholars to:

investigate rigorously the connections among biological, genetic, behavioral, environmental, economic and social determinants of health; and
develop, evaluate and disseminate knowledge and interventions that integrate and act on these determinants to improve health.

The program is intended to produce leaders who will change the questions asked, the methods employed to analyze problems, and the range of solutions to reduce population health disparities and improve the health of all Americans.

Deadline: Oct 3, 2008

Partners Investing in Nursing's Future - 2008 Call for Proposals Round 4

webmail@rwjf.org — 2008-08-01 00:00:00.0

Partners Investing in Nursing's Future, a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Northwest Health Foundation (NWHF), addresses nursing issues at the community level through funding partnerships with local and regional foundations. These funds create a financial incentive for local and regional communities to work on nursing workforce issues.

Deadline: Oct 2, 2008

Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change - 2008 Call for Proposals Round 3

webmail@rwjf.org — 2008-07-17 00:00:00.0

Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change seeks to improve the quality of health care provided to patients from racial and ethnic backgrounds likely to experience disparities.
Finding Answers will:

grant funds to discover and evaluate practical and replicable solutions designed to reduce and eliminate disease-specific racial and ethnic health care disparities;
focus on interventions aimed at health care delivery for one or more of the following health concerns: cardiovascular disease, depression and/or diabetes;
conduct systematic reviews of the literature regarding racial and ethnic health care disparities interventions; and
disseminate results from these research efforts and systematic reviews to encourage
health care systems to address racial and ethnic gaps in care.

Deadline: Sep 18, 2008

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholars

webmail@rwjf.org — 2008-06-02 00:00:00.0

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholars program is designed to strengthen the leadership and academic productivity of junior medical school faculty who are dedicated to improving health and health care. Under the program, scholars receive:

funds to support a research project;
at least 50 percent protected time for three years to do their research;
active mentorship by nationally recognized leaders; and
the opportunity to work with other talented scholars.

Deadline: Aug 29, 2008

Active Living Research - Investigating Policies and Environments to Support Active Communities

webmail@rwjf.org — 2008-07-03 00:00:00.0

Active Living Research is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that supports research to identify promising policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity, decreasing sedentary behaviors and preventing obesity among children and adolescents. The program places special emphasis on strategies with the potential to reach racial/ethnic populations and children living in low-income communities who are at highest risk for obesity. Grants funded under this call for proposals (CFP) are expected to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.

This funding opportunity is for New Connections grants awarded through the Active Living Research program. The New Connections initiative brings new perspectives to RWJF grantmaking by supporting researchers and investigators from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities. Two types of New Connections grants will be funded under this CFP: research grants and publication grants.

Deadline: Aug 28, 2008