About This Special Solicitation

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships offers this special solicitation to partner with diversity-focused funders: grantmakers who focus their funding on the needs of a specific under-resourced community of people such as communities of color; immigrants; people who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT); people isolated because of their racial, tribal or ethnic group or because they live in a remote rural or frontier location.

LFP special solicitations provide matching grants of between $50,000 and $200,000 per project. The grant will be paid out in increments over a period of up to three years. During that time, at least 75 percent of the award must be matched dollar for dollar by local grantmakers. In-kind contributions may be used to match up to 25 percent of the total award. The applicant organization must be nominated by a diversity-focused funder, but over the life of the grant RWJF encourages multiple local funding partners to work together to help the project grow.

In 2010, Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence will fund up to eight projects within diverse communities that employ community strengths and assets to reduce exposure to violence. Up to $1 million will be awarded through this special solicitation. Proposals under LFP special solicitations will be accepted throughout the year.