Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence

Purpose

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships is a matching grants program that connects the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with local grantmakers to fund new, community-based projects to improve health and health care for vulnerable populations. This special solicitation seeks nominations from diversity-focused funders for projects to reduce violence in traditionally underserved communities that are defined by race, ethnicity, tribe, gender, sexual identity or rural/frontier location.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be nominated by a diversity-focused funder that is principally concerned with the community to be served, such as a Black United Fund, an Asian-American/Pacific Islander Foundation, a Women’s Foundation, a Hispanic Philanthropy, Native American Fund or grantmakers committed to projects for gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people

• Projects should be planned and led by members of the specific racial, gender, tribal or other disadvantaged community to be served; and projects must be culturally appropriate – reflecting how language skills, significant cultural differences, education, income and discrimination affect health-related outcomes.

• Projects must be new and work to reduce violence in the context of a specific community and use that community’s strengths and assets to address threatening or violent behavior that results in emotional, psychological or physical harm. For example, eligible projects may address intimate partner violence, child or elder abuse, gang activity, school violence, or post-war trauma. Projects may relate to violence between family members or strangers, individuals or groups; in public or private settings.

• To obtain sufficient dollar-for-dollar matching funds throughout the grant period, the grantee is expected to work with the nominating funder (a diversity-focused funder) and/or additional grantmakers (who need not be diversity-focused funders). Funding partners may include independent and private foundations, family and community foundations, and corporate and other philanthropies.

• Matching funds must represent new funding specifically designated to support the proposed project. Up to 25 percent of the match for Peaceful Pathways may consist of in-kind services.

• For more details see Eligibility Criteria.

Selection Criteria

See Selection Criteria under How to Apply.

Total Awards

• Up to $1 million is available for the 2010.
• Up to eight matching grants of between $50,000 to $200,000 each will be awarded.

Key Dates and Deadlines

• Optional applicant conference calls will be scheduled.
• Proposals 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

NOTE: Peaceful Pathways will accept proposals throughout 2010, up to and including January 5, 2011.

How to Apply

All proposals must be submitted through the Local Funding Partnerships online system. Complete information can be found at Application Details.

Inquiries should be addressed to:
Curtis Holloman, deputy director
Phone: (609) 275-4128
E-mail: cholloman@localfundingpartnerships.org