RWJF: Active Living Research - Round 7

Sponsor: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)

Active Living Research is a $12.5-million national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that stimulates and supports research to identify environmental factors and policies that influence physical activity.

The purpose of this call for proposals is to increase our understanding of how environments and policies affect children`s physical activity in community and school settings. Grants will be awarded for two research topics:

Topic 1: Examination of how children`s and parents` perceptions of community and recreation environments are related to objective attributes of the environments and how those perceptions affect their desire to use the environments for physical activity.

Topic 2: Evaluation of policy interventions to promote physical activity in schools. There are two types of grants available:

Research Topic Grants

Each grant will focus on one of the two specific research topics described above. In this round of funding, Active Living Research will accept proposals for research projects requesting up to $150,000 total for up to two years for topic 1 and proposals requesting up to $200,000 total for up to two years for topic 2.

Dissertation Grants

Dissertation awards are a priority for Active Living Research, because they both help build the evidence base and increase the number of investigators in this new field of study. Doctoral candidates in any field or discipline may request up to $25,000 total for up to two years as support for their doctoral dissertations. Projects must have clear relevance to the overall mission of Active Living Research, and preference will be given to proposals that are relevant to preventing childhood obesity. However, projects do not have to address the specific topics in this call for proposals.

Up to $1 million is available for this seventh round of funding for research grants. RWJF expects to fund up to four grants under topic 1 and two under topic 2.

All proposals must be submitted through the RWJF Grantmaking Online system.

Deadline: Proposals are due MAY 16, 2007.

For further information, please visit: http://www.activelivingresearch.org/downloads/alrcfp7final.pdf