Deadline: Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Amount: $200,000 – $250,000
Link to RFA
To successfully advance health equity we need to remove obstacles to health, including powerlessness. Base-building—the strategies used by grassroots-led organizations to build collective strength—advances this goal by enabling communities to exercise influence over the factors that shape their communities and their health.
To reduce inequities and build community power, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) will fund projects that advance the ways the field assesses and measures base-building.
Join us for an informational applicant webinar on September 9 at 1 p.m. ET.
Purpose
We are seeking research proposals whose project teams will participate alongside other field and research experts in the RWJF Lead Local program, which is exploring the question: How does community power catalyze, create and sustain conditions for healthy communities? We are aware that community base-building methods vary across geographic areas and across racial, ethnic, and other demographic groups. We seek to understand community-identified innovations that lead to meaningful and effective community base-building. The proposed research projects are not intended to build understanding of methodologies applied to other critical approaches to achieve systems change, including policy advocacy, coalition-building, communications, or organizational development.
Eligibility and Selection Criteria
- We encourage proposals from applicants who represent a wide range of organizations and disciplines—both within and outside the public health sector.
- Applicants may include nonprofit organizations and nongovernmental organizations as members of the proposed collaboration between grassroots-led organization(s) and researcher(s).
- Preference will be given to applicants that are either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations or Type III supporting organizations. RWJF may require additional documentation.
- Awards will be made to organizations, not individuals.
- Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories.