Pioneer

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Our strategy

The Pioneer Portfolio supports innovative ideas and projects that may lead to significant breakthroughs in health and health care. Projects in the Pioneer Portfolio are future-oriented and look beyond conventional thinking to explore solutions at the cutting edge of health and health care.

Our Approach

The Pioneer Portfolio supports transformative, high-return ideas–ideas that have the potential to drive dramatic change today and that may shape the future of people’s health, the quality of care they receive, and the systems through which that care is provided. Through Pioneer, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has dedicated staff and financial resources to look to the future to support trends and ideas with the potential for significant health and social impact.

The Pioneer Portfolio addresses the fact that progress toward solving tough health and health care problems in America often has been too slow or limited in scope. We support innovators whose bold ideas and rigorous approaches move us beyond incremental improvements and accelerate the quest for change. We seek those whose ideas break free of conventional thinking, often because they reframe and refocus problems and explore different paths to breakthroughs. Rather than examine what’s wrong and how to fix it, Pioneer grantees ask “What might be possible, and how do we get there?” To advance their efforts, Pioneer offers financial support, strategic counsel and opportunities to work with others who share our passion for change and our impatience with incremental gains.

For more information on the issues RWJF seeks to address, download our complete overview.

Team members

View a list of RWJF staff working on Pioneer.

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