Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships (LFP)invites you to review our new special solicitation, Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence.The program offers matching grants of $50,000-$200,000 per project.

Proposals for this solicitation may be submitted at any time throughout 2009. Submitted proposals will be processed for review on the following dates, May 1, 2009; September 1, 2009; and January 5, 2010

• To be eligible, a project must be nominated by a diversity focused funder whose grantmaking targets an underserved group such as communities of color; immigrants; people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender; or people who are isolated because of their race, tribe, ethnic group, gender or rural/frontier location.
• Proposals must demonstrate how the new project is culturally appropriate, leveraging the community’s own characteristic wisdom, skills, language and cultural resources to reduce violence in that community.
• Eligible projects related to violence could reflect a community’s priorities by focusing on interpersonal or public violence, on the behavior of intimate partners or of gangs, on the trauma of war or on abuse in the workplace.

For more information visit www.localfundingpartnerships.orgor call call (609-275-4128) to discuss your project idea or eligibility. LFP supports uncommon connections: coalitions that come together to address health challenges where people live, work, learn or play.