Call for Proposals
2010 Call for Propoals (CFP) - Peaceful Pathways:
Reducing Exposure to Violence .
Read or download the pdf version of the 2010 Call for Proposals.
The 2010 CFP is also posted by topic on this website as follows:
- Program Overview
- Background
- The Program
- Eligibility Criteria
- Selection Criteria
- Evaluation and Monitoring
- Use of Grant Funds
- How to Apply
- Program Direction
- Timetable – Proposals accepted throughout 2010, until Jan. 5, 2011.
Background
Improving Health by Meeting People Where They Are
The mission of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is to improve the health and health care of all Americans. Through its Vulnerable Populations Portfolio, the Foundation supports programs that identify new approaches for better health by recognizing the critical relationship between our health and where and how we live, work, learn and play. Whether working in a day-care center, a school, a jail, at home or on the street, RWJF seeks to fund programs to improve health where it happens.
Acknowledging that factors such as violence, poverty, inadequate housing and education contribute to poor health, Vulnerable Populations grantees find pragmatic, innovative ways to make better health possible in the context of difficult life circumstances. These programs approach health differently, changing the way we look at problems and opportunities to deliver real improvements in quality of life and health.
Recognize Potential, Give It Roots, Keep It Growing.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships (LFP) recognizes that the best ideas for solving pressing community problems come from members of the communities themselves. At the same time, we know that the long-term potential for these programs could be significantly enhanced if a national foundation were to partner with local funders to leverage their combined resources.
Housed within the Vulnerable Populations Portfolio, LFP s is a national matching grants program that supports an array of innovative projects so better health can take root in our communities. LFP Special Solicitations, such as the one described in this call for proposals, provide an additional opportunity for diversity-focused funders to leverage matching dollars from RWJF.
diversity-focused funds are created by people who share common places, experiences, language and culture. Examples of diversity-focused funds include Hispanic philanthropies, women’s foundations and tribal funds.
Why Focus on Violence?
Across America, violence is too often an obstacle on the pathway to good health. There are many barriers: from a child who suffers depression because of abuse in his or her home, to a diabetic grandmother who cannot walk to the store because she doesn’t feel safe in her neighborhood, to a homeless veteran who is too emotionally scarred to keep a job.
While violent behavior is not confined by economic class, language or location, certain populations are at higher risk of injury and harm. They include communities of color; immigrants; people who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender; people isolated because of their racial, tribal or ethnic group and people who live in remote rural or frontier locations.
RWJF Local Funding Partnerships seeks practical strategies and solutions from local funders and organizations to increase community peace and safety, foster resiliency and build upon individual and group strengths, assets, wisdom, compassion and skills in order to address violence as a serious barrier to good health.
Such programs may focus on the needs of individuals, families or communities including coming together for common causes: such as stopping intimate partner violence, child or elder abuse, gang activity or post-war trauma. These include programs related to the impact of intentional and unintentional violent behavior in their common places: homes, schools, work sites and other community settings.
The Program
In 2010 Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence will fund up to eight
projects within diverse communities to reduce exposure to violence. Up to $1 million will be awarded through this special solicitation. Proposals will be accepted throughout the year.
These matching grants will be between $50,000 and $200,000 per project, 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 each year. Examples of in-kind contributions include donated office space, printing or a percent of an employee’s time.
The applicant organization must be nominated by a diversity-focused funder, but that funder is not responsible for providing all of the matching dollars. Over the life of the grant RWJF encourages multiple local grantmakers to work together to help the project grow.
Complete information about this special solicitation, Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence—as well as information about the LFP Annual Grantmaking call for proposals—may also be found on the program’s Web site at www.localfundingpartnerships.org.
Evaluation and Monitoring
All applicants are asked to include plans for assessing the success of their projects. Grantees will be expected to work with the LFP national program office to adopt consistent methods for assessing particular outcomes.
Grantees are expected to meet RWJF requirements for the submission of narrative and financial reports as well as periodic information needed for overall project performance monitoring and management. Project directors will be asked to attend periodic meetings and give progress reports on their grants. At the close of each grant, the lead agency is expected to provide a written report on the project and its findings suitable for wide dissemination.
Use of Grant Funds (See Eligible and Ineligible Budget Items)
Grant funds may be used for project staff salaries, consultant fees, data collection and analysis, meetings, supplies, project-related travel and other direct project expenses including a limited amount of equipment essential to the project. Grant funds may be used for contracts related specifically to implementation of the project.
Grant funds may not be used for general operating funds, organizational capacity building or capital expenditures, re-granting, fundraising, endowments or scholarships.
Research studies and community assessments will not be funded through this program.
In keeping with RWJF policy, grant funds may not be used to subsidize individuals for the costs of their health care; to pay for medication, eyeglasses or personal care items; to support clinical trials of unapproved drugs or devices; to construct or renovate facilities for lobbying or as a substitute for funds currently being used to support similar activities.
Once a project is selected, RWJF grant funds are disbursed in increments over the period of the grant; the total is not delivered in one sum. Awards under Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence may be for up to three years.
Funded grantees will submit a budget for each year of the grant that shows how much of their RWJF award they plan to spend that year. At the beginning of each year the Foundation requires written confirmation of the resources to match that year’s payments. Local funding partners must authorize dollar-for-dollar matching funds to equal at least 75 percent of the RWJF funds for that year. The remainder of the match for RWJF funds may be in in-kind services valued up to 25 percent of that year’s payments.
How to Apply
Applications for matching grants under LFP Special Solicitation must represent a project that concentrates on the health or health care needs of a specific community of people, i.e. those for whom traditional health and social services are insufficient because of barriers related to race, ethnicity, tribe, gender, sexual identity, rural/frontier location or other distinct characteristic.
All proposals must be submitted through the Local Funding Partnerships online system. For information on how to complete an application and upload required documents, please go to Proposal Requirements.
Program Direction
Direction and technical assistance are provided by the Local Funding Partnerships national program office located at:
Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey
760 Alexander Road
Princeton, NJ 08543-0001
Phone: (609) 275-4128
Fax: (609) 419-0689
E-mail: info@localfundingpartnerships.org
Web site: www.localfundingpartnerships.org
Responsible staff members at the national program office are:
- Pauline M. Seitz, program director
- Curtis E. Holloman, deputy director
- Leticia Peguero, deputy director
Responsible staff members at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are:
- Jane Isaacs Lowe, Ph.D., team director, Vulnerable Populations
- Kristin B. Schubert, program officer
- Joann Baquilod, grants administrator
Optional applicant conference calls will be scheduled during the year. Information will be posted at this website.
Proposals for this solicitation may be submitted at any time throughout 2010, until 1/5/11.
Submitted proposals will be processed for review on the following dates:
- May 5, 2010
- September 1, 2010
- January 5, 2011
