RWJF: Unsolicited Grants

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation(RWJF) currently awards approximately 25 percent of its grantmaking funds to unsolicited proposals developed by people and organizations outside of RWJF that help to address one or more of the Foundation's 11 key interest areas but do not fit within the specific strategy outlined in a Call for Proposals.

We invite proposals that:

• Challenge traditional ways of defining health and health care issues.
   

• Offer creative approaches to solving problems.
   

• Introduce new ideas to health and health care services and policy.

Through unsolicited grants, RWJF seeks to foster opportunities to learn from grantees and stretch the limits of conventional wisdom in health and health care. This is a vital means for RWJF to cultivate the innovative ideas of people and organizations. Occasionally, individual RWJF staff may collaborate with organizations to submit proposals in response to particular issues.

The proposals should address the objectives of one or more of the Foundation's current interest areas:

• Addiction Prevention & Treatment
   

• Building Human Capital
   

• Childhood Obesity
   

• Disparities
   

• Health Insurance Coverage
   

• Nursing
   

• Pioneer
   

• Public Health
   

• Quality Health Care
   

• Tobacco Use & Exposure
   

• Vulnerable Populations

For projects to be eligible for funding they must fall within the guidelines of the types of projects or activities that we fund:

• Service demonstrations
   

• Gathering & monitoring of health-related statistics
   

• Public education
   

• Training and fellowship programs
   

• Policy analysis
   

• Health services research
   

• Technical assistance
   

• Communications activities
   

• Evaluations

Deadline: RWJF accepts proposals for unsolicited grants at any time and awards them throughout the year—there are no deadlines.

For further information, visit: http://www.rwjf.org/applications/unsolicited/unsolicitedgrants.jhtml