Deadline: 10-Aug-23
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is accepting proposals to build the evidence base investigating how preemption policies at the state level may affect racial justice and health equity.
RWJF’s approach is to challenge and improve conventional methods and assumptions and source new ideas to generate evidence that can advance equity and justice for communities of color. Along with RWJF’s other signature research programs, Policies for Action (P4A) funds research that can move policy toward the goals of dismantling structural racism and injustice and promote health equity and wellbeing. Efforts to do this include funding diverse researchers and research organizations and disseminating policy research that is equity focused and actionable.
The research funded under this CFP:
- should focus on how state-level preemption impacts local authority;
- be intentional about applying a racial equity lens to the policy research processes and outcomes; and
- include community groups and/or members, especially those from historically marginalized communities, as leaders or partners in all stages of the research.
The policies being considered can be ones that have been implemented or proposed, or whose impacts can be estimated through anti-racist processes and methods that are inclusive of Indigenous research methods, critical ethnography, or other appropriate methodological approaches. They also welcome policy research that is more developmental, theoretical, or conceptual in nature but has the potential to support policy reform, creation, or implementation in ways that can significantly boost improvements in racial justice and health equity.
They seek to support research grants that generate actionable evidence and information about how, as well as how well policies work. They would like research findings to inform and guide legislators; public agencies; public policy advocates; racial, and other justice organizations; community organizers; and others who are developing and implementing policies to create thriving, healthy, equitable communities.
Funding Information
- Type of Award
- Awards funded under this opportunity will be structured as grants.
- Number of Awards
- Up to 6 grants will be funded.
- Amount of Award
- This CFP will award a combined total of $1.5 million for up to 6 grants. They recommend that you request the amount of funding you will need to complete your proposed research project and to translate and disseminate the results. The size of the budget will be weighed in relation to the importance and likely contribution of the proposed research.
- Award Duration
- Awards are typically funded for 24 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Preference will be given to applicants that are 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 Type III supporting organizations. Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories.
- Awards will be made to organizations, not to individuals.
- They strive to support a diverse group of researchers in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, and seniority. The following groups are especially encouraged to apply:
- Research projects led by researchers who are Black or African American; American Indian, Alaska Native, or Indigenous; Hispanic, Latinx/e, or Latin American; Middle Eastern or North African; Asian or Asian American; and/or Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander;
- Community-led research teams;
- Investigators from organizations that are underrepresented among grantee institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Alaska Native-Serving Institutions, Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions, and Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs);
- Interdisciplinary research teams; or
- First-time applicants for an RWJF grant.
- Applicants who have been RWJF grantees OR who currently have other active RWJF grants, are eligible to apply. Applicants may also submit proposals that are being considered by other RWJF programs.
- Applicants who are current principal Investigators or co-principal investigators of P4A grants OR who have finished their P4A funding within the past two years are not eligible to apply. (If your P4A grant was extended, the end of the extension period is considered the end of the award.) This does not prevent other researchers at the home institution of a P4A grantee from applying.
For more information, visit The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).