Deadline: 5-Jun-25
The Systems for Action (S4A) is a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that helps to build the evidence base for connecting the nation’s fragmented medical, social, and public health systems.
The S4A program supports research studies that test novel ideas for aligning delivery and financing systems across sectors in ways that address the health and social needs of people experiencing health inequities.
This CFP will provide funding for a new cohort of community-led pilot studies to produce new, actionable evidence about how to help medical, social, and public health systems work together to address forms of systemic racism. Each study funded under this CFP will:
- Be led by a community-based nonprofit, government agency, or tribal organization that serves communities affected by systemic racism;
- Identify a specific form of systemic racism that limits health and wellbeing for affected populations;
- Conduct a pilot-test study of a novel systems alignment (SA) intervention that engages representatives from relevant medical care, public health, and social services systems in collaborative actions to dismantle or disrupt systemic racism;
- Engage people with lived experience of systemic racism in developing, refining, and testing the proposed SA intervention; and
- Partner with an experienced researcher or research team to assist with designing and conducting the pilot-test research activities.
Topics
- They are particularly interested in studies of SA interventions that address one or more of the following topics:
- Addressing Resource Inequities Across Systems: SA interventions within this priority area should use novel strategies for equitably allocating and sharing resources across medical, social, and public health systems in order to support collaborative solutions to systemic racism.
- Strengthening the Voice and Authority of Marginalized Communities: Interventions within this priority area should test strategies for strengthening the voice and influence of marginalized, racialized, and Indigenous communities in shaping the priorities, operations, policies, and practices of medical, social, and public health systems.
- Equitable Use of Decision Support Tools: SA interventions in this priority area should test the use of novel decision support tools, technologies, policies, and practices that are designed to help medical, social, and public health system decisionmakers identify forms of systemic racism and work together to dismantle and disrupt these forms of racism.
Funding Information
- Amount of Award: Each award will be up to and including $200,000.
Duration
- Award Duration: Awards will be 12 months in duration
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant organization for this CFP must be a CBO that is actively engaged in serving communities that experience systemic racism.
- For the purposes of this CFP, CBOs eligible to serve as applicant organizations include Section 501(c)(3) charitable organizations, local and state government agencies, and tribal organizations.
- 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. RWJF may require additional documentation.
- Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories.
- If necessary, the applicant organization may utilize the services of a fiscal sponsor to support the project’s financial management and grants management and reporting activities.
- Research institutions such as universities and contract research organizations are not eligible to serve as lead applicant organizations for this CFP, although they may serve as fiscal sponsors for eligible applicant organizations.
For more information, visit RWJF.
