Funding Opportunities

Requests for Proposals

Healthy Eating Research: New Connections Grants
Concept Paper due: May 22, 3:00 PM ET
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. This call for proposals is for two types of awards aimed at providing key decision- and policy-makers with evidence to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. See also the August 9 deadline for Round 7 grants.

Fuel Up to Play 60
Rolling application deadlines:  June 1, October 1, and January 15, 2013
The free in-school nutrition and physical activity program was launched by National Dairy Council and the National Football League, in collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). More than 70,000 schools across the nation are enrolled in the program, which encourages students to eat healthy, be active and implement long-term, positive changes for themselves and their schools. Any U.S. school can enroll in the free program and thus be eligible to apply for up to $4,000 to help increase access to and consumption of nutrient-rich foods and participation in physical activity opportunities for students. Funds can be used for a variety of activities and tools, from resources that help enhance students’ healthy eating (such as foodservice equipment and nutrition education materials) to items that help schools address students’ physical activity needs (such as exercise equipment and student and staff incentives).

USDA Farm to School Grant Programs
Application deadline: June 15
Planning grants are intended primarily for K-12 school food authorities who participate in the National School Lunch or Breakfast Program that are in the beginning phases of their farm to school efforts. Implementation grants are geared towards advancing existing farm to school initiatives. Two webinars are scheduled in May for the benefit of applicants.

NIH Community-Based Partnerships for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Control (RO3)
Application Deadline: June 16, October 16
Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, this funding opportunity will enhance childhood obesity research by fostering local, state, or regional teams consisting of researchers, policymakers, and other relevant stakeholders. Teams will identify research questions and hypotheses, design and implement the relevant research, and translate the research into evidence directly relevant to potential policy efforts.

Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Concept Paper due: August 9, 2012 3:00 PM ET 
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. Awards are aimed at providing key decision- and policy-makers with evidence to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.

Nathan Cummings Foundation Environmental Health Objectives
Application Deadline: Apply by August 15 for consideration at the Fall Board meeting
Among the foundation's Health Guildelines is an objective for environmental health: to create a healthier, more equitable and sustainable quality of life by supporting systemic change, fostering innovation and facilitating the development and implementation of public policies resulting in businesses, government and other institutions taking responsibility for the real health and social impacts of their activities.