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 ...

RWJF funded nine national membership organizations, representing varied sectors, to administer the awards program over seven years (2016–2022). Each organization independently nominated individuals ...

Equity and overall wellbeing are not generally part of how we talk about health, and are not emphasized in our data collection. This has to change in order to truly move the needle on health equity ...

A ‘Scrappy’ Push for Health: ‘Our Best Asset Is Our People’ When your county’s population is half what it was a century ago, you may begin to think your best days are behind you. But despite the shift ...

Interested in learning more about the RWJF team? Use our directory to meet the people behind the work. Interested in joining a purpose-led organization tackling some of the most challenging health ...

Menominee Nation doctors and teachers don’t ask their patients and students, “What’s wrong with you?” They ask, “What’s happened to you?” Addressing both historic wounds and more recent suffering, ...

We need to talk about race. The story of our nation is one of justice and freedom, but the unspoken truth is too many people are shut out of equal opportunities because of the color of their skin.

We’ve discussed it with health care professionals and care providers. We’ve talked to educators and policymakers, business leaders, community organizers, faith communities, moms, dads and others. But ...

The inspired vision of our founder, Robert Wood Johnson II, was to improve health and healthcare in America, especially for those most in need. Energized by our legacy of tackling challenging issues, ...

The equitable future we all deserve won’t simply arrive—we must create it together. We work with scientists, anthropologists, engineers, artists, and other creative thinkers across the nation to ...

Traumatic childhood events such as abuse, neglect, and witnessing experiences like crime, parental conflict, mental illness, and substance abuse can result in long-term negative effects on learning, ...

RWJF believes we can achieve health equity—faster and together—if we ground our work in the following principles: Are you an RWJF grantee (past or present)? Are ...