Open call – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Pioneering Ideas: Build a Culture of Health

The Office of Foundations Relations is pleased to share this open call for funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Deadline: rolling
UCSC Contacts: cfr@ucsc.edu
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Program Guidelines: Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health

Award Amount & Terms

• There is not an explicit range for allowable budget requests
• Typical funding levels are ~$300k over three years

Overview

Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. We are interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, we welcome ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health.

Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health welcomes proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. We seek ideas that address any of RWJF’s Pioneer team’s four current areas of focus described below:

1. Future of Evidence
2. Future of Social Interaction
3. Future of Food
4. Future of Work.

Additionally, under Open Exploration, also described below, this call for proposals seeks ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health.

Eligibility

Applications will be evaluated based on, but not limited to the following criteria:

1. Strength of health equity focus: How will this project increase opportunities for everyone to live the healthiest life possible, no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they make?
2. Strength of insight: How will this project help anticipate, adapt to, and influence the future in 5 to 15 years?
3. Strength of idea: Is this project pioneering in one or more of these ways?
4. Offers a new take or perspective on a long-running, perplexing problem
5. Challenges assumptions or cultural practices
6. Takes an existing idea and give it a new spin—or a novel application
7. Applies ideas from other fields; and/or
8. Explores how an emerging trend will shape the future
9. Describe in which other way you see your project as pioneering

We are interested only in future-oriented ideas. If your proposal does not center around anticipating the next 5–15 years, it is not a fit for this funding opportunity.

Timeline

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

• Phase 1: Brief Proposals: project description and summary, include a preliminary budget
• Phase 2: Full Proposals: by invitation, full proposal, detailed budget, budget narrative, additional information.

Special Instructions

For support developing your LOI, please contact the Research Development Specialist (RDS) assigned to your unit or send a request to resdev@ucsc.edu. Please notify the Office of Foundation Relations if you are interested in applying to this opportunity (cfr@ucsc.edu). If invited to submit a full proposal, please submit a proposal intake form prior to UCSC’s internal Institutional Deadlines. Your RDS can also help you develop your proposal. Within the Division of Social Sciences, please contact Ashlee Tews (ashleeac@ucsc.edu) to initiate notification and proposal support.

The Office of Foundation Relations is a unit of University Relations. The FR team creates and maintains mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with private organizations, matching grant initiatives with educational and research programs and centers. FR supports faculty and staff to identify and approach these and other private foundations for funding, to assist in strategic positioning of the grant application, and to facilitate funder campus visits. 

For a list of recent funding opportunities, please visit the FR website. FR Calls for Funding