Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence
Funder:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 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.
Award:
between $50,000 to $200,000
Eligibility:
Applicants must be nominated by a diversity-focused funder that is principally concerned with the community to be served. Diversity-focused funders concentrate their grantmaking on projects in specific communities that are traditionally underserved by mainstream philanthropy and are sometimes referred to as diverse communities. Examples of diversity-focused funders would include Native American Fund, Hispanic Philanthropies, Black United Funds and Women's Foundations. Please see the eligibility criteria at http://www.localfundingpartnerships.org/html/apply/special/ss-eligibility.html
Due:
September 1, 2010
For more information:
http://www.localfundingpartnerships.org/html/apply/special/ss-programdetails.htm... 
