Common Places. Common Causes. Uncommon Connections.

Working together so better health
can take root in our communities.

Named as one of RWJF's Top 40 Programs, Local Funding Partnerships used community-based interventions to improve the health and health care of underserved and vulnerable populations from 1988 to 2011.
Across the U.S.,
Trace the Foundation's 40-year history, including top leaders and programs, by exploring their interactive timeline.

We highlight the storytelling efforts of our sixteen graduating projects whose awards conclude in 2013. They have created stories that give life to the work, convey passion and reveal impact on people and communities. These outstanding examples exemplify local creativity and innovation.
  • Porch Light Initiative profiled on www.rwf.org
    This groundbreaking program is a collaboration between the Mural Arts Program (MAP) and the City of Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) where artists are paired with individuals receiving treatment for behavioral health challenges to design, paint and hang large-scale murals.
    View the video on www.rwjf.org.
  • Marlene Sanchez, Executive Director of the Center for Young Women’s Development, featured on the cover of the Spring 2013 issue of the California Health Report magazine.
    "On a February night in 1996, Marlene Sanchez found herself handcuffed and locked up in a San Francisco police holding cell. For the 15-year-old Sanchez, this was routine." Fifteen years later Sanchez is committed to improving the conditions for young women who have found themselves in situations much like her own.
    Read her story.
  • LFP Grantee speakers at TEDMED 2013
    Dr. America Bracho, President and CEO of Latino Health Access, a nationally recognized model of community action and Dr. Gary Slutkin, Founder and Executive Director of Cure Violence, a nationally and internationally recognized model to reverse the spread of violence, were speakers.
    Learn more about TEDMED.
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75% of U.S. health spending goes to treating preventable chronic conditions.
9.4% of children don't have health insurance in the United States.
One, the number of doctors it took to reduce health care costs in Camden, NJ by 50%
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Grants funded 1988 to 2011

Since 1988, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships has awarded 369 grants in collaboration with 1,400 local grantmakers across the U.S. We go to where health starts, connecting health to how we live, learn, work and play.

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