RW Johnson Foundation: Getting Americans Covered

Key Dates and Deadlines
May 27, 2010 (3 p.m. ET)
Deadline for receipt of brief proposals.
June 17, 2010
Applicants notified if invited to submit a full proposal.
July 28, 2010 (3 p.m. ET)
Deadline for receipt of full proposals.
November 1, 2010
Start of grants.

Purpose
The Coverage team of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is accepting proposals for projects that promote the Foundation’s goal of ensuring that all Americans have stable, affordable health care coverage. The Foundation will allocate up to $2 million to support individual grants of up to $250,000 each. The grant period is expected to begin in November 2010 and extend for up to 24 months.
The recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is expected to make health insurance coverage available to more than 30 million more Americans. Achieving such substantial increases in the number of Americans covered by health insurance will largely depend on the success of efforts to implement the new law effectively. Through this call for proposals, we will fund projects that focus on addressing specific aspects of the new law that present significant opportunities to expand coverage (e.g., Medicaid expansions, subsidy programs for small businesses and individuals who otherwise would not be able to afford insurance, or private-market health insurance reforms).

Projects should be relevant to national health reform and can take many forms, including:

coalition building,
convening and advocacy;
strategic communications to provide information to policy-makers and the public;
evaluation, research and analyses of timely policy changes; and programs and projects to develop new tools and models for policy implementation.

Interested applicants should visit the Coverage section of the RWJF Web site to learn more about our current funding priorities, activities and programs at www.rwjf.org/coverage.

Total Awards
Up to $2 million will be awarded under this solicitation.Grants of up to $250,000 each for up to 24 months.

Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility criteria include the following:

Preference may be given to those applicants who are nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories at the time of application.

Selection Criteria
Proposals will be reviewed by RWJF staff and, in some cases, by external reviewers with expertise relevant to the proposal. RWJF will make all final funding decisions. Please note that RWJF does not provide individual critiques of proposals submitted.

We will use a two-step proposal process for this solicitation: