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.

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 this year (deadline June 30, 2010) from which up to 12 matching grants will be awarded in 2011.

The Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence program will continue accepting proposals and awarding grants throughout 2010 and 2011. 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 2010 and 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:

• 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
  
  

• "Puppetry Theater Production Leads to Desirable Attitudes & Better Decisions Related to Nutrition & Physical Activity Among Elementary School Students" posted 10/28/09
  EXTREME Health Challenge LFP Matching Grant: 2005–2009
  
  
• "Comprehensive, Shelter-Based Clinic Enhances Access to Oral Health Services for Homeless in Los Angeles" posted 10/28/2009
  Oral Health Care for the Homeless in the Skid Row Area
  LFP Matching Grant: 2000-2003
  
  

• "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

FYI
Grantmakers in Health article about Local Funding Partnerships:

Collaborating Where Health Happens, February 2009