Proposals Due for Communities Creating Healthy Environments Grants Initiative

The Praxis Project announced the call for proposals for Communities Creating Healthy Environments (CCHE)–a grant initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support community organizing and policy advocacy to increase access to healthy food and safe places to play in communities of color.

CCHE will provide funding and technical assistance for up to ten local community organizing groups and indigenous nations with grants of up to $250,000 over three years.

What kind of organizations should consider applying for CCHE funds?

* Local organizations working in communities of color whose leadership and makeup reflects the populations they serve. Groups with a successful track record of at least two years in community organizing and policy advocacy work to address health-related problems in communities of color.

* Tribal governmental agencies engaged in health policy.

Examples of health-related policy advocacy for local communities include: land use regulation such as zoning limitations that prevent the increased availability and access to healthy food choices; before-and-after school programs that improve access to recreation and increase physical activity levels; increasing access to translation in health care and social services; laws to extend Medicaid eligibility are solid examples on policy advocacy for local communities.

For more information about the call for proposals or to become a part of CCHE, please visit www.ccheonline.org.

Communities Creating Healthy Environments is a National Program Office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation under the leadership of The Praxis Project. The Praxis Project is a national, nonprofit organization that builds partnerships with local groups to influence policymaking that addresses the underlying, systemic causes of community problems. For more information on Praxis and their other initiatives, please visit www.thepraxisproject.org

For more information on other funding initiatives of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and its goal of reversing the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015, please visit www.rwjf.org.

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