Rutgers Equity Alliance for Community Health

This week's #FridayFundingFeature is for the National Library of Medicine Information Resource Grants to Reduce Health Disparities and Promote Health Equity This initiative seeks projects to provide accurate, useful, usable, and understandable health information to populations that experience health disparities and their health care providers. Projects should emphasize the development and deployment of new information or expand and improve an existing resource or service to meet the needs of populations experiencing health disparities and to promote health equity. Applications are due May 25, 2025. Learn more about this opportunity and more: https://lnkd.in/eUz377HJ #fundingopportunities #healthequity #healthdisparities #grantfunding

Congratulations to REACH grantee, Sara Elnakib, PhD, MPH, RD, on the well-deserved recognition for her impactful work advocating for food access and security, reducing food waste, and creating sustainable changes at the local levels. You are an inspirational example of pairing research with community partnership to change systems.

Don't miss hearing Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and MacArthur "Genius," live on April 9, 2025, at the REACH Poverty Symposium! The day will be accessible from Newark, Camden, and New Brunswick, and all attendees will get an autographed copy of his must-read book, Poverty, By America. Registration is free but limited. Save your spot today!: https://lnkd.in/eGMp-arP "This is who we are: the richest country on earth, with more poverty than any other advanced democracy." https://lnkd.in/eWMS2D6N #matthewdesmond #Rutgers University Rutgers University - Camden Rutgers University - Newark Rutgers University #socialdeterminantsofhealth #healthequity

#FridayFundingFeature is an opportunity from our funder, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Share and tag your local, qualified community-based organizations. Systems for Action: Community-Led Systems Research to Address Systemic Racism This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation call for proposals will provide funding for a new cohort of community-led pilot studies to produce new, actionable evidence about how to help medical, social, and public health systems work together to address forms of systemic racism. Priority is placed on systems alignment intervention that have broad applicability. A community-based organization must be the applicant. Applications are due June 4, 2025. Learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/ewYjNVsh #healthequity #publichealthsystems #fundingopportunity #grantfunding #addressingsystemicracism #sdoh #socialdeterminants

We are excited to invite you to Poverty, Equity, and Their Influencing Factors, a REACH Symposium. Please join us for a day of candid conversations to engage?the Rutgers community, community partners, leaders and members, and external stakeholders, including funders and policymakers, in a candid conversation around poverty and its influencing factors. ? Sessions will feature panel discussions and presentations by Rutgers faculty and researchers, community leaders, and others that center around the key social determinants upon which REACH’s work is focused – education, employment, food access and food security, housing and population health – and their interconnectedness with racial justice, poverty and health. Registration is Free, but limited:?https://lnkd.in/e3X5ZcUu #sdoh #socialdeterminantsofhealth #matthewdesmond #healthequity Rutgers University Rutgers University - Camden Rutgers University - Newark Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

#FridayFundingFeature - As uncertainty spreads about the future of nonprofit funding, we continue to seek and share avenues of support for the critical work of health equity. These public and private funders share a concern for equity, though they may have a particular interest in any one of REACH’s focus areas: education, employment, food access/security, housing, or population health. This week, we're highlighting the Minority Research Grant Program. The purpose of this Office of Minority Health opportunity is to test promising solutions in existing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs, policies, or practices that affect social determinants of health (SDOH) and to learn how changes in SDOH achieve health equity. The program encourages innovative health services research that can directly and demonstrably contribute to improving health outcomes for people from all minority populations. Applications are due April 1, 2025. Apply for this opportunity and learn about others: https://lnkd.in/eUz377HJ Please continue to share and circulate these opportunities with your network. #healthequity #fundingopportunity #grantfunding #sdoh

Only three weeks away! Registration Required- Space is Limited Join us for our Population Health Symposium: Bridging the Gaps: Collaborative Pathways to Achieve Health Equity in New Jersey Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025 Location: Great Hall, 15 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102 Time:?9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. Explore innovative, community-engaged strategies, and foster collaboration across New Jersey to create long-term change in our communities. Speakers, including community leaders and researchers, will provide actionable recommendations for advancing health equity, enhancing collaboration, and guiding the implementation and evaluation of health policies that effectively target and reduce health inequities. Register today: https://lnkd.in/egwZ3tDT #healthequity #populationhealth #communityleaders #sdoh #socialdeterminantsofhealth #healthinequities Rutgers School of Public Health Rutgers University - Newark

#FridayFundingFeature: Local Data for Equitable Communities Call for Proposals This call for proposals (CFP) invites eligible nonprofit organizations in the U.S. to apply for a grant to collect, analyze, and use data to address inequities in the physical, economic, and social conditions of a place. Improving these conditions is key to achieving health equity, where health is no longer a privilege but a right. Structural racism is one of the leading barriers that results in inequities in conditions within and across communities. @The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) expects to award up to 30 grants of $50,000 each, with a period of performance of nine months. @The Urban Institute, as the?national coordinating center for this program, is collaborating with RWJF on program design, grantee support, and communications. Proposals due March 18, 2025 Learn more about this opportunity and more: https://lnkd.in/eUz377HJ #healthequity #callforproposals #sdoh #grantopportunity #grantfunding

https://lnkd.in/eqwg3vkN Jon Bon Jovi(JBJ) Soul Foundation will be opening it's fifth JBJ Soul Kitchen today at 101 Washington St. in Toms River. At JBJ Soul Kitchen, customers who pay for their meals have the chance to cover costs for someone else who didn’t have money but volunteered to help out in exchange. Over the years, the initiative has served more than 198,212 meals, with 57% of diners paying for their food by volunteering, according to the foundation. Bon Jovi often helps out at the Red Bank restaurant’s kitchen by washing dishes. He has described food insecurity as “one of the most critical issues college students face today.” Other locations include: Downtown Toms River,?@the The Paul Robeson Campus Center at?Rutgers University - Newark?and?the @Gilligan Student Union Building at?New Jersey City University. #foodsecurity #JBJ Soul Kitchen #foodaccess #foodjusticeinnj

#FridayFundingFeature with two more opportunities for February: 1. Understanding the Intersection of Social Inequities to Optimize Health and Reduce Health Disparities: The Axes Initiative The NIH’s Axes Initiative (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) will support research to understand health at the intersections of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and ability, by examining contributions of social and other determinants of health. The National Institute of Nursing Research intends to commit $3,000,000 in FY 2025 to fund 6-8 awards. Applications are due February 14, 2025 Learn More: https://lnkd.in/erwSChvW Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity (RFA-NR-25-003) U01, Clinical Trial Optional The National Institute of Nursing Research solicits applications to support unusually innovative intervention research addressing social determinants of health (SDOH), which, if successful, would have a major impact on preventing, reducing, or eliminating health disparities and advancing health equity. Proposals are due by February 28, 2025. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/eaRPJtfp #healthequity #socialdeterminantsofhealth #grantfunding #fundingopportunity #