LFP Grantmaking

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships has always been a work in progress, an evolving effort to partner with local grantmakers to address some of the most challenging community health needs.

Over the past 20 years it has been a privilege to partner with local philanthropy to address some of the most challenging community health needs, identify promising new approaches and support original demonstration models as they move to evidence-based best practice.

Read Collaborating Where Health Happens, a brief history of Local Funding Partnerships published by Grantmakers in Health, February 2009.

The LFP program is now approaching the completion of its seventh multi-year authorization. The LFP Annual Grantmaking cycle will conclude with the proposals submitted in 2010, from which up to 12 matching grants will be awarded in 2011.

The Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence program accepted the last round of proposals in January 2011. The final matching grants will be announced later this year. At this time there are no plans for subsequent Calls for Proposals under the LFP program. Learn more.

LFP director Polly Seitz and her staff will continue to provide monitoring and technical assistance to all existing grants and those to be awarded in 2011. We anticipate that all grants will be completed in 2015.

Funding partners are always encouraged to call the LFP office at 609-275-4128.

Projects cited as best practices

Latest LFP projects profiled by the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) INNOVATIONS EXCHANGE:

• Remote Visits by Pediatricians for Sick Children at Inner-City and Other Child Care Centers/Schools Reduce Absences and Emergency Room Use update posted 1/26/11
  Health-e-Access LFP Matching Grant 2002-2006

• "Puppetry Theater Production Leads to Desirable Attitudes & Better Decisions Related to Nutrition & Physical Activity Among Elementary School Students" updated 1/19/11
  EXTREME Health Challenge LFP Matching Grant: 2005–2009

• Onsite Clinic Staffed by Bilingual, Culturally Competent, Interdisciplinary Team Brings Health Education and Primary Care to Low-Income, Uninsured Workers updated 12/1/10
  Work Healthy LFP Matching Grant 2006-2010

• Multi-agency Collaboration Improves Access to Culturally Sensitive Care and Support Services for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Seniors updated 11/17/10
  Aging as Ourselves LFP Matching Grant 2005-2009
• School-Based Transition Program Connects High-Risk Adolescents to Mental Health and Support Services, Leading to Improved Academic and Familial Functioning  posted 12/23/09
  Brookline Resilient Youth Team (BRYT) LFP Matching Grant: 2004-2009
  
  

• "Community-Wide Collaboration Provides School-Based Mental Health Services to Students and Families in Impoverished, High-Crime, Urban Neighborhoods" posted 9/2/2009
  Connecting with Care LFP Matching Grant: 2006–2010