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Grant Results Report
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has posted a comprehensive review of the first 18 years of Local Funding Partnerships including results, lessons learned and evaluations. Read the report.

Origins of the Program
A full description of the origins of the Local Funding Partnerships program was published as a chapter in The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology To Improve Health and Health Care 2000, edited by Stephen L. Isaacs and James R. Knickman, © 1999.

You may read the chapter in its entirety as it is posted on the website of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in their Library section.

Terrance Keenan Tribute

If any one person can be credited with creating the Local Funding Partners program, it is Terrance Keenan. Advances, the quarterly publication of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, included a tribute to Keenan in their Issue 4, 2003. Colleague Frank Karel, RWJF's former vice president for communications, explains how his longtime friend introduced the idea of partnering a national foundation with local funders:

“Terry started a program calling for proposals from local and community foundations. He said, 'If you've got something in your community that falls within our guidelines, we will match whatever local money can be brought together, up to $500,000.'

“No big foundation had ever done anything like this. But who knows better what’s needed and where it’s needed than the local foundations?”

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships (formerly known as Local Initiative Funding Partners—LIFP) is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation located at the New Jersey Hospital Association through a grant to the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) of New Jersey.
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