The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and Economic Research Service (ERS) are announcing a call for proposals for researchers who will use one or more restricted-use data assets from the Consumer Food Data System (CFDS).
Donor Name: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/16/2022
Size of the Grant: $100,000
Grant Duration: 27 Months
Details:
RWJF has widened its focus on childhood obesity to consider issues such as nutritional adequacy; upstream factors affecting food supply; nutritional assistance; and indicators of food quality and availability. To contribute to research, evaluation, and learning, especially for its healthy children and families focus area, RWJF is partnering with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Economic Research Service (ERS) on an opportunity to make their valuable data on food and nutrition available to researchers. By doing so, they hope to support research that will help to overcome structural barriers to equitable access to healthy food.
They seek to develop a cohort of researchers from diverse academic disciplines and institutions who will produce policy-relevant research on food policy; food retail markets; consumer behaviors related to food purchases and diet; and USDA nutrition assistance programs. It is their hope that the resulting research evidence will inform RWJF’s goal of creating equitable access to nutritious food.
Funding Information
- The total award will be up to $100,000 per project. Multiple researchers are allowed on a project, dividing the award.
Grant Period
- The duration of awards will be up to 27 months, from November 2022 to February 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Researchers applying for funding from this CFP are required to submit proposals making use of one (or more) of the restricted-use data assets listed in the USDA’s Consumer Food Data System (CFDS;
- Proposals for research involving multiple CFDS data assets conjointly are allowed and encouraged. A researcher may also import non-CFDS data into ADRF to conduct the research supported by an award. However, researchers must obtain and provide evidence that the owners of the data to be imported permit linking their data as proposed.
- To be eligible for an award, research supported by this CFP must be for research or statistical purposes, in contrast to regulatory or law enforcement purposes.
- To be eligible for an award, researchers must be affiliated with U.S. academic organizations that are either institute of higher education, public entities, or nonprofits that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations or Type III supporting organizations.
- Projects that already have funding are not eligible for funding under this CFP for the same work. Researchers with funded projects may apply under this CFP for support for related research or expanded project scope, accompanied by a clear explanation of how the work supported by this CFP relates to work that is already funded.
- Additional criteria apply to FSRDC researchers and ADRF researchers.
For more information, visit Food and Health Research Using the Consumer Food Data System.
