AcademyHealth

Washington, DC

$70,000—Field-building activities for health services research (for 1 year).
ID 51635

Alliance for Health Reform

Washington, DC

$1,106,000—Issue briefings on health policy for policy-makers, journalists and national organizations (for 2 years).
ID 41830

Alliance for Justice

Washington, DC

$126,508—Building advocacy expertise among RWJF grantees (for 1 year).
ID 50978

American National Red Cross

Washington, DC

$750,000—Emergency assistance for the victims of Hurricane Charley (for 3 months).
ID 52080

The Apollo Theater Foundation Inc.

New York, NY

$20,000—Providing inner-city residents access to health screenings, information, workshops and demonstrations through community health fairs (for 1 year).
ID 51720

Association of Health Care Journalists

Minneapolis, MN

$25,000—Fifth national conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists (for 3 months).
ID 50493

BBB Wise Giving Alliance

Arlington, VA

$100,000—New accountability standards to make charitable organizations more transparent to the public (for 2 years).
ID 52235

Boys, Girls, Adults Community Development Center

Marvell, AR

$49,991—Building capacity for community-based programs in rural Arkansas (for 18 months).
ID 50979

Burness Communications, Inc.

Bethesda, MD

$699,450—Producing and distributing television news stories on Foundation-funded projects (for 1 year).
ID 49986

University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design

Berkeley, CA

$40,000—Supporting youth leadership change activities in public housing (for 1 year).
ID 51827

Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization

Initiative that supports policy analysis, research, evaluation and demonstration projects that will provide public and private decision leaders with usable and timely information on health care policy and financing issues.

Program Sites

• University of Alabama at Birmingham, Lister Hill Center for Health Policy

  Birmingham, AL

  $204,220—Examining the effect of medical malpractice reform on malpractice premiums and on consumer costs of health care (18 months).
  ID 50298

• Boston University School of Public Health

  Boston, MA

  $356,373—Modeling decisions of Medicare health plans and determining if regional competitive bidding will work (2 years).
  ID 51151

• Brandeis University, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

  Waltham, MA

  $421,926—Study of the role of benefit design in enrollment, drug use and expenditures in two state prescription drug programs for seniors (2 years).
  ID 50507

• Brookings Institution

  Washington, DC

  $99,744—Comparing standards of care and medical practice in the United States and the United Kingdom (1 year).
  ID 50863

• The College of William and Mary Center for Public Policy Research

  Williamsburg, VA

  $108,455—Exploring the implications of pharmacogenomics on health care costs and access to treatment (1 year).
  ID 50400

• Cornell University College of Human Ecology

  Ithaca, NY

  $231,282—Evaluating factors affecting hospital costs (18 months).
  ID 51830

• Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

  Atlanta, GA

  $172,075—Researching the market-level effects of Medicaid HMOs on physician participation, enrollee access and program costs (2 years).
  ID 50954

• George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services

  Washington, DC

  $99,997—Examining the relationship between young adults who serve in the military and Medicaid enrollment and utilization (7 months).
  ID 52228

• Georgetown University Institute for Health Care Research and Policy

  Washington, DC

  $179,779—Study of various design features of the federal health care tax credit program (1 year).
  ID 50263

• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.

  Boston, MA

  $99,977—Assessing the cost, utilization and health effects of successive changes in cesarean length-of-stay policy (1 year).
  ID 50048

• Health Research and Educational Trust

  Chicago, IL

  $170,987—Examining the extent to which increases in health care costs are due to technology (1 year).
  ID 52351

• Health Research and Educational Trust

  Washington, DC

  $6,083—Study on the current state and future direction of tiered benefits for hospital services (1 year).
  ID 50490

• University of Maryland, Baltimore, The Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging

  Baltimore, MD

  $291,039—Establishing the value of stable prescription coverage for Medicare beneficiaries (18 months).
  ID 50399

• University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management

  Minneapolis, MN

  $499,103—Exploring the long-term impact of consumer-driven health plans (3 years).
  ID 52321

• University of Minnesota School of Public Health

  Minneapolis, MN

  $99,471—Examining the effect of hospital mergers on HMO hospital costs and premiums, 1995–2001 (1 year).
  ID 50491

• Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management

  Evanston, IL

  $240,433—Studying a new approach to identify hospital market power and its impact on merger antitrust analysis (2 years).
  ID 50861

• State of Oregon Department of Administrative Services, Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research

  Salem, OR

  $262,287—Research on the impacts of Medicaid benefit reductions and increased cost sharing (2 years).
  ID 51304

• University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts

  Eugene, OR

  $601,547—Assessing the impact of consumer-driven health plans on the development of activated consumerism (3 years).
  ID 50862

• Pacific Business Group on Health

  San Francisco, CA

  $89,676—Testing the value of patient-reported physician quality information for quality improvement and consumer choice (1 year).
  ID 52352

• Park Nicollet Institute

  Minneapolis, MN

  $94,983—Investigating management uses of health-based risk adjustment tools by U.S. purchasers and health plans (11 months).
  ID 50401

• University of Southern Maine, Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service

  Portland, ME

  $367,636—Studying the use of tiered provider networks by employer-sponsored health plans (30 months).
  ID 51419

• Tufts University Department of Economics

  Medford, MA

  $117,275—Integrating the main findings of the empirical literature on hospital ownership (1 year).
  ID 50953

• University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine

  Seattle, WA

  $655,910—Evaluating an organizational innovation for improving access and quality of care (2 years).
  ID 52229

Other Program Activities

• AcademyHealth

  Washington, DC

  $1,117,487—Technical assistance and direction for Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (1 year).
  ID 48416

Communications Projects

Multiple Contractors

$1,200,000—Building relationships between RWJF grantees and policy-makers (for 17 months).
ID 48214

$660,200—RWJF grantee Web support center (for 33 months).
ID 48941

$281,500—Policy synthesis project–Phase III (for 2 years).
ID 48985

$69,990—RWJF grantee media training (for 1 year).
ID 50487

$357,250—Publishing the RWJF Anthology Volume VIII (for 1 year).
ID 50705

Foundation Center

New York, NY

$250,000—Data collection and analysis of the foundation field (for 3 years).
ID 50069

Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc.

Arlington, VA

$1,590,000—News collaboration with the Health and Health Policy Unit of the “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” (for 3 years).
ID 51275

Health Tracking

Initiative to track and report on changes in the U.S. health care system and how they affect Americans’ health.

• University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Health Sciences

  Los Angeles, CA

  $199,947—Addressing unmet needs in substance abuse treatment and mental health care through community collaborations (1 year).
  ID 38923

Henry Ford Health System

Detroit, MI

$50,000—Establishing the Wayne County Health Authority (for 1 year).
ID 49994

NETSCAN iPublishing, Inc.

Falls Church, VA

$190,788—Information on state health policy legislation (for 1 year).
ID 50674

Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington Inc.

Washington, DC

$45,000—Roundtable to document the impact of the fiscal crises affecting nonprofits in the Washington, DC area (for 1 year).
ID 50000

OMG Center for Collaborative Learning

Philadelphia, PA

$50,000—Workshop to improve internal evaluation capacity of grantees (for 1 year).
ID 50180

Patricia Patrizi

Wyncote, PA

$25,000—Evaluation roundtable to build foundation effectiveness (for 1 year).
ID 51319

Philanthropy Roundtable

Washington, DC

$25,000—Activities to promote excellence in philanthropy (for 1 year).
ID 50751

University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Center

Pittsburgh, PA

$20,000—Developing a user manual for the Stages of Organization Capacity Instrument (for 11 months).
ID 50371

Project Cafe Inc.

Cazenovia, NY

$4,021—Student-directed monthly health and health care symposium (for 6 months).
ID 49918

Project Hope–The People-to-People Health Foundation Inc.

Millwood, VA

$850,000—Continued support for Health Affairs (for 18 months).
ID 44292

Sound Partners for Community Health

Program to support radio stations that demonstrate how community-centered journalism can positively affect the ways in which local health care issues are addressed.

Program Sites

• Benton Foundation

  Washington, DC

  $1,698,602—Support for the sites under the Sound Partners for Community Health program (2 years).
  ID 46475

Other Program Activities

• Benton Foundation

  Washington, DC

  $992,297—Technical assistance and direction for Sound Partners for Community Health (1 year).
  ID 46477

Spitfire Strategies, LLC

Washington, DC

$479,666—Strategic communications training for RWJF grantees (for 1 year).
ID 48213

State Forums Partnership Program

Program to establish a technical assistance center to support the adoption of the New Jersey Policy Forums on Health and Medical Care project in up to eight states.

• Forums Institute for Public Policy

  Princeton, NJ

  $399,000—Technical assistance and direction for the State Forums Partnership Program (1 year).
  ID 51733

Third Sector New England Inc.

Boston, MA

$964,619—Promoting philanthropy in professional sports to improve community health (for 18 months).
ID 50912

Urban Institute

Washington, DC

$100,000—Expanding and further developing the National Nonprofit Data System (for 1 year).
ID 49578

Claudia H. Williams

Arlington, VA

$263,840—Synthesizing health policy research (for 2 years).
ID 52097

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