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January 1, 2008 | Book
Seeding and nurturing new fields is one approach that has characterized the Foundation's grantmaking since its very beginning in 1972. The chapters in this year's volume of the Anthology reveal much more about both approaches to improving health and health care and the ways that one foundation operates.
January 1, 2008 | Book
A new field of health care professionals—nurse practitioners.
January 1, 2008 | Book
In addition to providing insights about reducing teenage pregnancy, this chapter traces the evolution of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's efforts over a 20-year period to address this potentially controversial issue.
January 1, 2008 | Book
This chapter examines the research on mentoring and Foundation-funded programs that encourage it.
January 1, 2008 | Book
In this chapter, Paul Brodeur, an award-winning journalist and former staff writer for The New Yorker, discusses an approach to organizing services for people with both substance abuse addiction and mental illness.
January 1, 2008 | Book
As a consequence of sedentary lifestyles, obesity rates have climbed dramatically over the last half-century, leading to increases in diabetes, heart attacks and other illnesses.
January 1, 2008 | Book
The Urban Health Initiative, a major effort of the Foundation, aims to improve the health and safety of children living in five medium-size and large cities.
January 1, 2008 | Book
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has placed a high priority on program evaluation since its inception as a national philanthropy in 1972. In this chapter, two architects of the Foundation's evaluation system describe that system and examine its strengths and weaknesses.
January 1, 2008 | Book
Through the Sports Philanthropy Project, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation worked with foundations established by professional sports teams, helping them develop their philanthropic skills to become more professional in their approach to grantmaking.
December 31, 2007 | Book/Issue Brief
The latest Anthology illustrates several approaches the Foundation employs to improve health and health care.