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 PDF 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:




LFP Annual Grantmaking
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