Call for proposals from organizations:

Since 2015, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has supported research efforts and advocacy to update policies that dictate minimum standards for the collection, analysis, and reporting of race and ethnicity data. RWJF funding has aimed to advance data equity—especially to make more visible populations that have been historically underrepresented in data—and to more fairly consider such groups in the creation of policies, allocation of resources, and design and implementation of programs.

This funding opportunity will support a multifaceted research project that yields recommendations for actionable Asian American subgroup categories to be applied in the collection and analysis of race and ethnicity data. The goal of this award is to develop community-informed and evidence-based recommendations for how researchers should cluster the diverse Asian American population into smaller subgroups in ways that are feasible for real-world implementation. Advancing systematic disaggregation—whether it is at the collection, analysis, or reporting phase—can improve the health and social services fields’ ability to target their resources where they are most needed in communities experiencing significant disparities.

Deadline for receipt of brief proposals: August 13, 2024 (3 p.m. ET)

See the complete Call for Proposals online.