Applications Invited for RWJF Equitable Parks & Green Spaces in Small and Midsize Cities: Planning Grant 2020

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About the Organization:

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is the nation’s largest philanthropy dedicated solely to health. Since 1972, they’ve supported research and programs targeting some of America’s most pressing health issues—from substance abuse to improving access to quality health care. They are very aware that achieving this will take unprecedented collaboration—a movement for better health. At the same time, they also know they are far from alone in their belief that everyone should have the opportunity to lead a healthier life. And by working alongside many others, they can bring about meaningful change, now and for generations to come.

Equitable Parks and Green Spaces in Small and Midsize Cities: Planning Grant

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) seeks an organization (or up to three collaborating organizations) to plan an initiative, which, by influencing policy and systems change, rectifies the inequitable distribution of parks and green spaces in low-income communities and communities of color in urban regions, including small and midsize cities (pop. 50,000–500,000). This work will build on the Foundation’s several years of field learning.

They seek applicants that have experience, expertise, and missions related to elevating equity in decisions, plans, and programs that affect the community conditions in which low income people and people of color live. This includes organizations with experience in community power building, community-led planning and programming, and community-driven decision-making.

They also expect that the applicant team (not necessarily the lead applicant) will possess content knowledge about parks and green spaces and related topics, such as climate resilience. Applicants should have the capacity to implement the planned effort, which will be funded separately.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants may include nonprofit organizations and nongovernmental 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.
• Awards will be made to organizations, not to individuals.
• Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories.
• The successful applicant could be one organization or a partnership between up to three organizations.

Grant: RWJF expects to award one planning grant of upto $400,000.

Deadline: September 09, 2020, 3:00 p.m. ET

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