Local Data for Equitable Communities – Mar 3

Posted by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on February 17, 2026

This call for proposals (CFP) invites eligible nonprofit organizations in the U.S. to apply for a grant to collect, analyze, and use data to address inequities in the physical, economic, and social conditions of a place under the Local Data for Equitable Communities grant program.

Improving these conditions is key to achieving health equity where health is no longer a privilege, but a right. Local data can be valuable tools to make progress on building places that offer everyone the chance to be as healthy as possible. Community organizations and residents can use data to understand challenges, set priorities, advocate for what is important to them, and hold others accountable for promised changes.

This program will fund local data projects that build on applicants’ knowledge, relationships, and experience with existing change efforts with new opportunities or momentum for local action. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) expects to award up to 30 grants of $50,000 each with a period of performance of nine months. The Urban Institute, as the national coordinating center for this program, collaborates with RWJF on program design, grantee support, and communications.

Learn more and apply here.