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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Monthly out-of-pocket spending on healthcare premiums will skyrocket for millions of people if Congress allows the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits to expire. Congress approved ...
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 ...
Through tall cedar and fir trees on Eagle Hill, Charlene Nelson can spot the distant homes of the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation. If all goes as planned, those dwellings will someday move to this ...