Many RWJF grants are awarded through a network of more than 80 program groups, called national programs. By providing leadership, fostering communication and collaboration and serving as champions of innovation, national programs can help unite distinct efforts into a broader movement that can achieve social change. National programs are typically administered by universities, nonprofit groups or Foundation staff. Below is a list of current national programs.

Active Living Research
To stimulate and support research to identify environmental factors and policies that influence physical activity, especially among children and families in low-income communities.

Communities Creating Healthy Environments: Improving Access to Healthy Foods and Safe Places to Play in Communities of Color
To build state and national momentum to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity through strategic investment in those communities most affected.

Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To support and disseminate focused investigator-initiated research and policy analysis to identify effective policy and environmental strategies for reversing the rise in childhood obesity by 2015, especially in populations and communities at greatest risk.

Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities: Supporting Community Action to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To catalyze and support policy and environmental change projects to promote children's physical activity and healthy eating, especially in lower-income and racial/ethnic communities at greatest risk.

Information for Action: School Policies to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To evaluate the effectiveness of school-based initiatives in preventing childhood obesity.

Leadership for Healthy Communities: Advancing Policies to Support Healthy Eating and Active Living
To work with elected and appointed officials to create and promote healthier communities.

National Policy and Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To support policy innovation and implementation aimed at preventing childhood obesity by empowering advocates, decision-makers, and communities with technical assistance and resources.

New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids: Communities Making a Difference to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To support a four-year major initiative to seed community and state partnerships to prevent childhood obesity in New Jersey.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To develop the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity as the nation's leading resource for best policies and practices to reverse the epidemic by supporting the center's efforts to: synthesize the evidence; provide expertise and resources to organizations, policy-makers, and communities working to prevent childhood obesity; and provide leadership and coordination to fuel a national movement to reverse the epidemic by 2015.

Salud America! The RWJF Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children
To stimulate and support investigator-initiated research and build a field of researchers focused on preventing obesity among Latino children.