Topics
- Crime, Safety, Violence
Funding Type
- Private
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships is a matching grants program that connects the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with local grantmakers to fund new, community-based projects to improve health and health care for vulnerable populations. This special solicitation seeks nominations from diversity-focused funders for projects to reduce violence in traditionally underserved communities that are defined by race, ethnicity, tribe, gender, sexual identity or rural/frontier location.
Projects must be new and work to reduce violence in the context of a specific community and use that community’s strengths and assets to address threatening or violent behavior that results in emotional, psychological or physical harm. For example, eligible projects may address intimate partner violence, child or elder abuse, gang activity, school violence, or post-war trauma. Projects may relate to violence between family members or strangers, individuals or groups; in public or private settings.