Deadline: 7-Feb-25
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is seeking proposals for the Reimagining Land Use & Zoning for Health Equity Program to identify and support existing and ongoing work that is in the demonstration (pilot), implementation, or evaluation stage, rather than concept, startup, or initiation phases.
Healthy Communities seeks to provide grants to organizations and communities that are actively working to reimagine land use and zoning as tools for advancing healthy, thriving, and equitable communities.
Funding Information
- Amount of Award: Each award will be $250,000.
Duration
- Award Duration: Award period will be 18 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any proposed program that has—as a significant or primary focus—creating policy changes that are likely to include new legislation or budget appropriations at the federal, state, or local levels; and seeks to achieve its goals, in whole or in part, through direct engagement with policymakers and/or the general public, and should:
- have a demonstrated history of managing funds, (e.g., foundation or government) to support nonlobbying advocacy efforts;
- have a strong previous or current relationship with legal counsel with expertise in the lobbying and political activity restrictions that apply to public charities and private foundations;
- be either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations or nonfunctionally integrated Type III supporting organizations.
- Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories.
Selection Criteria
- Healthy Communities seeks diverse geographic, ethnic, and socioeconomic representation, including from communities experiencing structural racism, residential segregation, concentrated poverty, and other structural inequities.
- Projects must demonstrate a collaborative approach with community-based leadership or participatory approach.
- Projects should be forward-looking and solutions-oriented, and move beyond documenting disparities and toward actively addressing, repairing, or reimagining the land use systems that contributed to inequities.
- There is preference for projects that are working toward system-level approaches to land use and zoning reform and projects that have the potential to influence system-level change.
- Place-based projects are eligible, with a preference for projects that can showthe relevance and applicability of the project for other communities.
For more information, visit RWJF.