Opportunity profile: Joining up against social isolation

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s social isolation call is a rare opportunity to work with a major US funder. Strong bids will focus on implementation rather than theory, the foundation’s Karabi Acharya tells Antoaneta Roussi.

With its annual expenditure on grants and programmes hovering between $400 million and $500m, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is ranked as the United States’ third largest after the Gates and Ford foundations.

Its grants are usually only open to US applicants, but one scheme—Developing Solutions for Social Isolation in the United States: Learning from the world—is open to applicants around the globe.