Funding-Healthy
Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity; August 9, 2012
Sponsor
RWJF
Description
The
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity program
supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential
to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity,
especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk
for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the
childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
RWJF funds efforts at the organizational, community, state,
and federal levels to change public and institutional policies and environments
in ways that promote improved nutrition and physical activity. This work ranges
from large-scale changes to smaller-scale efforts taking place at the
organizational or institutional level (e.g., in schools, recreational programs,
child-care settings, hospitals, retail food outlets) that could be replicated
if effective.
The primary goal of this CFP is to fund and communicate
strategic and timely research addressing key evidence needed to advance RWJF's
policy priorities — providing advocates, decision-makers, and policy-makers
with innovative, solution-oriented, policy-relevant environmental and policy
studies to guide policy action.
Proposals are invited for two types of awards: 1) Round 7 grants, and 2) RWJF New Connections grants
awarded through the Healthy Eating Research program.
Round 7 grants represent the majority of RWJF's
investment in research through this program. Approximately $1.7 million will be
awarded in grants of up to $170,000 for a maximum funding period of eighteen
months. Concept papers may be submitted at any time until August 9, 2012. The
deadlines for receipt of invited full proposals are May 31, 2012; July 31,
2012; and October 4, 2012.
The New Connections grants are offered in collaboration
with RWJF's New
Connections program, which is designed to expand the diversity of
perspectives that inform RWJF programming and introduce new researchers and
scholars to the foundation. These grants are to support research by new
investigators representing populations and communities historically
underrepresented in childhood obesity prevention research, including
researchers from underrepresented ethnic or racial minority groups and
lower-income communities and those who are first-generation college graduates.
Up to two grants of up to $100,000 will be awarded for projects of twelve to
eighteen months. Concept papers are due May 22, 2012; invited full proposals
will be due July 21, 2012.
Preference will be given to applicant organizations that
are either public entities or nonprofit 501(c)(3)
organizations. Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or
its territories. The focus of this program is the United States; studies in
other countries will be considered only to the extent that they directly inform
U.S. policy.
Deadline:
August
9, 2012 (Concept Papers), and October 4, 2012 (Full Proposals)
Link
to Full Announcement
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21393
For
Further Information
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Kathy Kosiak (for Round 7
grants) Laura L. Klein (for RWJF New Connections grants awarded
through Health Eating Research) |
