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April 11, 1989
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A Proposal Judged T Be britorious My Still Be ejeCted
we nrow receive some 5,000 applications a year, and the number is
growing. we cannot hope to fund all of the sound proposals among them. If
we think a proposal we cannot fund has merit, we will often try to help you
win funding fran another source.
Cn occasion, with a shift in priorities or sae change in the
direction in which the health care system is evolving, we have gone back to
applicants and asked them to resubmit a previously rejected proposal, with
or without som modification.
Keep in mund that tin Foundation is something of a ring target --
K that its priorities and interests are perpetually evolving. You must be
aware of what our interests are no. The Foundation makes every effort to
assist in this effort by carefully targeting its mailing lists and calls
for proposals, by maintaining an active public awareness program via the
media and by publishing Advances, a quarterly newsletter covering our
priorities, projects and people. It is free for the asking.
Charity Versus "Prochrtive Philnthnrr
One of the nst difficult things to explain to applicants whose
projects are not funded is our inability to make the charitable effects of
a program a major factor in the decision to support it. Fl receive very
few proposals which would not be of great benefit to people in need. On
that basis alone, we could never say no.
'e Robert ood Johnson Foundation subscribes to a philosophy of
v "productive philanthropy." Our goal is to put in place program a which can
beccre self-sustaining and thus continue to serve the nreds of those they
benefitt far beyond the necessarily limited term of Foundation funding.
Many of the applications rejected have no long-term survival prospects.
'Thus, despite the good they might do while we supported thn, they do rot
represent the highest and best use of the Foundation's funds.
Areas of Intrest and ajnh
The Rtert Wood Johnson Foundation, fran its emergence as a national
philanthropy, has limited its funding to one general area of interest -
isprcwing the hJmlth aid htaith care services for all Amricaru.
The mission statement adopted last year by the Foundation's board of
trustees specified three priority targets within that field:
* assisting those segments of the population nost vulnerable to
illness
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