The program's first Call for Proposals focuses on school food policies
and
environments and is available at <http://www.rwjf.org/cfp/her>
www.rwjf.org/cfp/her. A total of approximately $3 million will be
awarded
in this round of funding for two types of research grants:
* Studies to identify and/or evaluate promising school food
environment and policy changes (grants of up to $400,000).
* Analyses of the macro-level policy or system determinants of
school
food environments and policies (grants of up to $75,000).
The application deadline is March 7, 2006 at 3:00 PM EST.
A news release announcing the program is available at
<http://www.rwjf.org/newsroom/newsreleasesdetail.jsp?id=10383>
For additional information on Healthy Eating Research and this funding
opportunity, please visit <http://www.healthyeatingresearch.org/>