Robert Wood Johnson Foundation offers funding to community projects
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation offers funding to community projects
More than 800 callers have responded to the announcement of a new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program to help local communities provide health care coverage to low-income residents.
Applications were due April 30 for the foundation’s Communities in Charge program, a $16.8 million initiative that will award planning and development grants to help communities manage care, promote prevention and early intervention, and integrate health care services.
Up to 20 communities will be awarded one-year, $150,000 planning grants to help in researching the problem of the uninsured, developing local consortia, evaluating potential strategies, and redesigning the financing and delivery system. Upon successful completion of the first phase, up to 15 of the communities will then be awarded three-year development grants of up to $700,000.
The program is open to communities with at least 250,000 residents and at least 37,500 low-income, uninsured individuals.
More information is available by accessing the project’s Web site at www.communitiesincharge.org or by contacting national project director Terry Fox Stoller at (216) 736-7940.
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