Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Peaceful Pathways: Grants for Reducing Exposure to Violence, due Jan 5

RWJF Peaceful Pathweays grants are for decreasing violence in specific communities, such as those defined by race, ethnicity, tribe, gender, sexual identity or rural/frontier location.

Application Package:

www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_LFP_PP2009.pdf.

Eligibility: Applicants are nominated by a diversity-focused funder concerned with the specific population (details in application package).
Deadline: Jan. 5.

Amount: Eight matching grants of between $50,000 to $200,000 each. The grant will be paid out in increments over a period of up to three years. During that time, at least 75 percent of the award must be matched by local grantmakers. In-kind contributions may be used to match up to 25 percent of the total awards (for details on requirements see application package)

• Eligible projects may relate to interpersonal or public violence, to the behavior of gangs or individuals, or to the experience of war or of family violence.
• Projects may serve any age, from the youngest children to the most senior members of a community.
• Prevention programs are eligible as are projects designed to help people affected as victims, witnesses or perpetrators.
• Projects may address hate crimes, bias or abuse in the workplace or in public, nonprofit or private agencies.
• Projects may address threats or endangerment from strangers or from persons well known to the victim, as well as sexual violence or intimate partner violence.
• Projects that deal creatively with conflict and anger, that strengthen communities by identifying risk and protective factors, and that create immediate, practical solutions to improve health and quality of life are also eligible.