Funding Opportunities at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Funding Opportunities atthe Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation

• Steve Downs
• Senior Program Officer

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About the Foundation

• Mission
• to improve the health and health care of all
  Americans
• Size
• approx. 8 billion in assets
• approx. 400 million in annual grants
• www.rwjf.org

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Grantmaking Framework

• Targeted Portfolio
• Human Capital Portfolio
• Vulnerable Populations Portfolio
• Pioneer Portfolio

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Grantmaking Framework

• Targeted Portfolio
• to help address specific systemic problems in
  health and health care over a defined period of
  time
• Human Capital Portfolio
• Vulnerable Populations Portfolio
• Pioneer Portfolio

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Targeted Portfolio

• Health
• protecting people through policies proven to
  reduce tobacco use
• expanding and improving treatment for abuse of
  alcohol and drugs
• strengthening the leadership capacity and
  information infrastructure of the public health
  system
• halting the growing epidemic of childhood obesity

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Targeted Portfolio

• Health Care
• improving the quality of care for those with
  chronic conditions, focusing on outpatient
  settings.
• reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health
  care
• transforming the practice of nursing and care at
  the bedside
• raising public awareness to ensure coverage for
  all Americans

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Grantmaking Framework

• Targeted Portfolio
• Human Capital Portfolio
• to promote leadership in and improve the current
  and future health and health care workforce
• Vulnerable Populations Portfolio
• Pioneer Portfolio

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Grantmaking Framework

• Targeted Portfolio
• Human Capital Portfolio
• Vulnerable Populations Portfolio
• to promote innovative community-based solutions
  to health that, in combination with social
  factors, affect health and health care outcomes
  for societys most vulnerable people
• Pioneer Portfolio

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Grantmaking Framework

• Targeted Portfolio
• Human Capital Portfolio
• Vulnerable Populations Portfolio
• Pioneer Portfolio
• to explore and create new or especially
  innovative and high-risk approaches to our
  grantmaking

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Health e-Technologies

• 10.3M national program run by Brigham Womens
  Hospital
• Directed by David K. Ahern, Ph.D.
• Supports research which evaluates the
  effectiveness of eHealth applications for health
  behavior change and chronic disease management

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Health e-Technologies (cont.)

• First grant round
• two types of grants
• Outcome Evaluation
• Methodology Design
• currently reviewing final proposals
• Second grant round
• coming late 2003 or early 2004
• www.hetinitiative.org

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Contact Info
Steve Downs sdowns_at_rwjf.org 609/627-7636