The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is accepting proposals for the Reimagining Land Use & Zoning for Health Equity Program to identify and support existing and ongoing work that is in the demonstration (pilot), implementation, or evaluation stage, rather than concept, startup, or initiation phases.
Donor Name: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/06/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Healthy Communities seeks to provide grants to organizations and communities that are actively working to reimagine land use and zoning as tools for advancing healthy, thriving, and equitable communities. Recognizing that systems change is long-term in nature, RWJF does not necessarily anticipate that an entire project will be completed within the grant period, but that the CFP will result in project grants that support discrete activities. Grantees may have the opportunity to network with other awardees throughout the grant period, but collaboration on project work will not be required.
Eligible project work is expected to fit into one of the following categories. Examples of possible work within each category are provided, but are not exhaustive.
- Demonstration or Implementation
- Participatory approaches to land use planning and zoning, or approaches that prioritize self-determination for communities experiencing health inequities as a result of current land use policies.
- Education, capacity-building, and advocacy efforts with local, regional, state, tribal, or federal governments. Funds may not be used for lobbying or political activities.
- Removing or replacing harmful policies and practices.
- Implementing new land use and zoning policies and practices aimed at increasing racial and health equity.
- Research—Exploration of reparative land use regulation frameworks. Case-making on the relationship between land use regulations and community health, residential segregation, concentrated poverty, and other structural inequities.
- Evaluation or Monitoring—Assessment of recently implemented policy changes or programs.
Funding Information
Each award will be $250,000.
Grant Period
Award period will be 18 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- There is no restriction on the type of organization that is eligible, except for the cases specified in eligibility criteria. Preference may be shown to nonprofit 501(c)(3) public charities and governmental entities.
- Any proposed program that (1) has—as a significant or primary focus—creating policy changes that are likely to include new legislation or budget appropriations at the federal, state, or local levels; and (2) seeks to achieve its goals, in whole or in part, through direct engagement with policymakers and/or the general public, and should:
- have a demonstrated history of managing funds, (e.g., foundation or government) to support nonlobbying advocacy efforts; have a strong previous or current relationships with legal counsel with expertise in the lobbying and political activity restrictions that apply to public charities and private foundations; be 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 nonfunctionally integrated Type III supporting organizations. The Foundation may require additional documentation. Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories.
- have a strong previous or current relationships with legal counsel with expertise in the lobbying and political activity restrictions that apply to public charities and private foundations;
- be 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 nonfunctionally integrated Type III supporting organizations. The Foundation may require additional documentation.
- Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories.
For more information, visit RWJF.
