Local Data for Equitable Communities, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Description:

This call for proposals (CFP) invites eligible nonprofit organizations in the U.S. to apply for a grant to collect, analyze, and use data to address inequities in the physical, economic, and social conditions of a place under the Local Data for Equitable Communities grant program.

Improving these conditions is key to achieving health equity where health is no longer a privilege, but a right. Local data can be valuable tools to make progress on building places that offer everyone the chance to be as healthy as possible. Community organizations and residents can use data to understand challenges, set priorities, advocate for what is important to them, and hold others accountable for promised changes.

This program will fund local data projects that build on applicants' knowledge, relationships, and experience with existing change efforts with new opportunities or momentum for local action. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) expects to award up to 30 grants of $50,000 each with a period of performance of nine months. The Urban Institute, as the national coordinating center for this program, collaborates with RWJF on program design, grantee support, and communications. 

Eligible Geography: Applicants must focus their projects on local geographies in the U.S. or U.S territories:

• Neighborhood(s) within a city or county (do not need to be contiguous);
• City, county, or other municipality (must be contiguous if multiple are the focus of the project);
• A single metropolitan area; or
• A tribal area

Eligible Topics: Applicants must select only one of the following conditions of their selected geography as the primary focus of their project: 

• Built environment, 
• Climate and environment,
• Community safety, 
• Healthy food access, 
• Housing, or 
• Transportation.

Eligible Activities: This grant program provides flexibility for applicants to determine what data are needed to answer their proposed project questions and how those data are collected, analyzed, disseminated, and ultimately put to use by community members to bring about changes in local policies and practices. There is no preference for qualitative or quantitative data and applicants should choose the methods that are best suited to produce the information that is needed. Please see the “Selection Criteria” section in the Call for Proposals for the factors used to assess the proposed projects. Summaries for past projects of Local Data for Equitable Communities grantees are available at LocalDataforEquitableCommunities.org.

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