Hospitals’ Role in Population Health

Posted by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on February 13, 2017

RWJF Seeks Applications for Coordinating Office to Enhance Hospitals’ Role in Population Health

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is seeking proposals from organizations that can work with hospitals to enhance their role in population health.

RWJF is committed to building a Culture of Health in America, which includes fostering cross-sector collaboration to improve population health, well-being, and equity. To that end, the foundation will work in partnership with an external coordinating office to increase the impact and sharpen the strategy of its efforts to enhance hospitals’ role and investment in population health and the social determinants of health. The coordinating office will work with program officers at the foundation and cultivate relationships with RWJF grantee organizations and other relevant organizations and leaders. The coordinating office is expected to embrace a collaborative learning approach that links grantees to each other and amplifies what they and other organizations are accomplishing and learning about hospitals and health systems across the United States.

It is important that the coordinating office can apply innovative approaches to monitoring progress and national and local trends related to advances in population health and shifting political environments; identify strategic opportunities and gaps (among networks, grantees, and others) for the foundation and the field; and convene others to generate insights and action, align strategies, and support one another. Through activities and relationships, the coordinating office should improve the foundation’s ability to learn from the field, synthesize and disseminate lessons from across strategically aligned investments, and make contributions that will help broaden the foundation’s perspective of the field and inform its decisions about possible program development in two of its focus areas, Healthy Communities and Transforming Health and Health Care Systems.

A grant of up to $800,000 over two years will support one or a pair of collaborating organizations. If applying as a pair, one organization should act as the fiscal sponsor and primary grant recipient, with the secondary organization acting as a subcontractor.

To be eligible, applicants must have existing organizational infrastructure that indicates sufficient capacity for this work, including a financial infrastructure and staff with experience and expertise to perform the functions acquired. Applicants also must be based in the United States or its territories. Preference will be given to applicants that are either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt.

The foundation will host an optional applicant Web conference call on February 10, 2017, at 11:00 a.m. Registration is required.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the RWJF website.

DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2017

http://www.rwjf.org/en/library/funding-opportunities/2017/coordinating-efforts-to-enhance-hospitals-role-in-population-health.html