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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (the Foundation) is committed to building a Culture of Health that provides everyone in America a fair and just opportunity for health and well-being. This commitment requires a recognition of the many attributes of the different individuals who make up our diverse nation. As demonstrated in our Guiding Principles and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Commitment, we are dedicated to embedding and elevating diversity and inclusion across our work.

However, we have limited information thus far about the demographic profiles of the Foundation’s staff, Trustees, and grantees. It is crucial that we begin to collect and make sense of this important information if we are to uphold our values. To that end, we have worked with the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) to develop a survey to collect individual-level demographic data from staff, Trustees, and project director(s) of all grants and program contracts awarded as of January 1, 2020. The Foundation will receive only aggregate results; the names of individual respondents and individual responses will be kept confidential by CEP. The Foundation may report aggregate findings about the demographics of its staff, Trustees, and project directors on its website or in other public spaces. While CEP may provide the Foundation with data aggregated in a number of ways, in order to guard the privacy and the confidentiality of respondents, the Foundation will not receive any subgroup analysis unless there are more than 10 respondents.

The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is a nonprofit organization focused on enhancing the impact of funders. CEP’s mission is to provide data and create insight so philanthropic funders can better define, assess, and improve their effectiveness and, as a result, their intended impact. You can learn more about CEP at www.cep.org. Over the last two decades, CEP has conducted numerous surveys of tens of thousands of grantees, foundation staff, and trustees across the nonprofit sector.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation commissioned CEP to conduct this survey on its behalf.

This short survey covers questions about the respondent on a number of demographic dimensions, including range of birth year, gender identity, race and ethnicity, sexual identity, and ability status. All questions provide a "prefer not to answer" option for respondents, allowing respondents to skip any survey question.

There are many widely-accepted definitions and classifications for the ways an individual might identify. In creating the questions and definitions included in this survey, the Foundation and CEP relied on best practices drawn from a variety of sources and received feedback on drafts. Acknowledging that there is not yet one right approach to collect this information, the Foundation and CEP also wanted to ensure that all individuals are represented in the response selections, and included options to write-in an identity if preferred.

Some sources guiding the creation of this survey are:

The most recent research on the practice of demographic data collection conducted by the Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research [“Rethinking and Updating Demographic Questions: Guidance to Improve Descriptions of Research Samples” (2016)];
The Williams Institute & Sexual Minority Assessment Research Team (SMART) [“Best Practices for Asking Questions about Sexual Orientation on Surveys” (2009)], and the UT Austin Gender and Sexuality Center;
The practices of some of the largest collectors of demographic data in the United States, including the U.S. Census Bureau, the Pew Research Center, the National Institutes of Health, the ADA, and several public and private domestic universities;
The practices of several organizations in the nonprofit sector that have done significant recent work in the practice of demographic data collection, including but not limited to GuideStar, Funders for LGBTQ Issues, RespectAbility and others.

The Foundation is encouraging all current staff, Trustees, and project director(s) of grants and program contracts awarded as of January 1, 2020 to respond to this survey. Participation in this survey is voluntary.

To ensure emails from CEP do not get caught in your spam filter, please add the following email to your contact list: surveyinfo@cep.org. Please reach out to Sae Darling at surveyinfo@cep.org if you have any questions.

No, please do not forward this survey. This survey is meant for you as an individual given your role in collaborating with RWJF.

The Foundation is collaborating with SSRS to survey applicants of Calls for Proposals/Applications on the applicant’s experience with the application process. This survey also includes questions on applicant characteristics (both individual and organizational). Those survey findings are shared with the Foundation, in aggregate form only, to inform its future application processes and to better understand its applicant pool and how to expand and diversify the applicant pool.

The demographic data survey, being conducted by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, asks a different, but related, set of questions on individual demographic characteristics of the Foundation’s staff, Trustees, and project director(s) of new grants and program contracts. This survey, unlike the applicant survey, is intended to inform the Foundation’s ongoing efforts to build a Culture of Health by providing a better understanding of the demographic profile of the Foundation and those with whom it works.

Your response is completely confidential. Only CEP will see your answers to these questions, and your name will not be associated with your response as CEP processes this data.

Whether or not you complete this survey is entirely up to you, and whether you do so will have no bearing on the Foundation’s engagement with you. In fact, no one will know whether or not you completed some or all or none of this survey. CEP will aggregate your response along with the information provided by other respondents and may perform cross-tabulation analyses with the data. Only aggregate findings will be reported back to the Foundation. The Foundation may report aggregate findings about the demographics of its staff, Trustees, and project directors on its website or in other public spaces.

The Foundation and CEP welcome your input about the survey. The last question in the survey provides an optional opportunity to provide written feedback. Please note that CEP will share any answer you provide directly with the Foundation. However, your response will not be connected to your name or any other answers you provided as part of the survey.

Please keep in mind that all questions provide a "prefer not to answer" option for respondents, allowing respondents to skip any survey question. If you wish to unsubscribe from the survey list, however, please locate the survey invitation from Sae Darling at surveyinfo@cep.org and click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.

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A Q&A with Lisa Parson, Special Assistant for Equity and Community Recovery for the City of Santa Monica

The coronavirus pandemic has spurred local leaders in government, nonprofits, and businesses to work together to address new issues within daily life.

In Santa Monica, California, a 2016 Culture of Health Prize winner, the city was already measuring community health, regularly asking about issues such as whether residents felt generally fulfilled and whether or not they had the money for necessities such as medical services. This proved particularly valuable in enabling the city and its partners to support the most vulnerable residents during the pandemic.

We talked with Lisa Parson, special assistant for equity and community recovery in Santa Monica.

In the last year, we had been working on boosting wellbeing in Pico, the Santa Monica neighborhood where people had the lowest wellbeing. We launched a program where we gave $500 grants directly to individuals, rather than nonprofits, to do a project that they felt would improve their community. When COVID-19 hit, we knew we had a network of nonprofits and active community members in Pico. But also, we knew there were community members that were unlikely to have the support they needed. We were able to use that information to focus our efforts and to stand up some projects that wouldn’t have gotten stood up as quickly without the index. For example, we set up a city-run food pantry in Pico, because there were no local ones and we knew residents were facing food insecurity.

We have the Wellbeing Index—a data tool that was first created to measure how communities are really doing. Before we created the index, we realized that our city departments were collecting data about processes that had since changed or information they had previously used to apply for funding. They no longer used this data and we couldn’t use it either. When we asked, “Why do you collect this?” the answer was, “Because we always have.” We needed to start from square one and look at what measures would give us valuable data to help build a strong community. So, we shifted to measure things like voting rates, how frequently people volunteered, and whether they felt they could influence things in the city.

As we were creating the index, we realized that what we were developing was actually an equity tool. And each time, we saw the same disparities in wellbeing appearing among the same groups—communities of color consistently had lower wellbeing than their white counterparts. A big lightbulb moment for us was knowing that even with all the great programs our city has, there are still gaps that need to be filled to ensure health equity for everyone.

We established a language justice fund last year from the work we had been doing with the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, a national network of governments that supports jurisdictions that are doing racial equity work or want to begin to do it. Before, if you went on our website, everything was in English. But we knew if we wanted to engage the entire community, we needed to make things accessible. And that is about more than just English vs. Spanish—it’s also about the reading level that things are written in and making that more equitable. There are so many documents where everyone uses formal city language, and those are not accessible to the average person. During the pandemic, we made sure our communications team was keeping that in mind all the time. For example, “respiratory droplets,” which describes one way the coronavirus spreads, is not user-friendly for people who don’t know what you’re talking about. We need to say things in a simpler way and have that be the default so people can understand what’s important for them to know.

One of the things that we started in the pandemic was bimonthly calls with our nonprofit partners. There’s been a great collaborative spirit between the city and nonprofits, and between the city and businesses. We’ve seen some elegant and smart solutions come out during this pandemic that wouldn’t have happened if we had remained closed off to collaboration like this. For example, we moved our wellbeing microgrants program out to a nonprofit partner to make sure the grants could continue to reach those who need them, came up with new ways to do our food pantries and started doing open-air dining to save restaurants. It was hard to do these things in Santa Monica before, but we figured it out with partners, and they’re here to stay. It’s shown us that there’s more you get from collaborating than trying to hold your own.

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (the Foundation) is committed to building a Culture of Health that provides everyone in America a fair and just opportunity for health and well-being. This commitment requires a recognition of the many attributes of the different individuals who make up our diverse nation. As demonstrated in our Guiding Principles and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Commitment, we are dedicated to embedding and elevating diversity and inclusion across our work.

However, we have limited information thus far about the demographic profiles of the Foundation’s staff, Trustees, and grantees. It is crucial that we begin to collect and make sense of this important information if we are to uphold our values. To that end, we have worked with the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) to develop a survey to collect individual-level demographic data from staff, Trustees, and project director(s) of all grants and program contracts awarded as of January 1, 2020. The Foundation will receive only aggregate results; the names of individual respondents and individual responses will be kept confidential by CEP. The Foundation may report aggregate findings about the demographics of its staff, Trustees, and project directors on its website or in other public spaces. While CEP may provide the Foundation with data aggregated in a number of ways, in order to guard the privacy and the confidentiality of respondents, the Foundation will not receive any subgroup analysis unless there are more than 10 respondents.

The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is a nonprofit organization focused on enhancing the impact of funders. CEP’s mission is to provide data and create insight so philanthropic funders can better define, assess, and improve their effectiveness and, as a result, their intended impact. You can learn more about CEP at www.cep.org. Over the last two decades, CEP has conducted numerous surveys of tens of thousands of grantees, foundation staff, and trustees across the nonprofit sector.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation commissioned CEP to conduct this survey on its behalf.

This short survey covers questions about the respondent on a number of demographic dimensions, including range of birth year, gender identity, race and ethnicity, sexual identity, and ability status. All questions provide a "prefer not to answer" option for respondents, allowing respondents to skip any survey question.

There are many widely-accepted definitions and classifications for the ways an individual might identify. In creating the questions and definitions included in this survey, the Foundation and CEP relied on best practices drawn from a variety of sources and received feedback on drafts. Acknowledging that there is not yet one right approach to collect this information, the Foundation and CEP also wanted to ensure that all individuals are represented in the response selections, and included options to write-in an identity if preferred.

Some sources guiding the creation of this survey are:

The most recent research on the practice of demographic data collection conducted by the Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research [“Rethinking and Updating Demographic Questions: Guidance to Improve Descriptions of Research Samples” (2016)];
The Williams Institute & Sexual Minority Assessment Research Team (SMART) [“Best Practices for Asking Questions about Sexual Orientation on Surveys” (2009)], and the UT Austin Gender and Sexuality Center;
The practices of some of the largest collectors of demographic data in the United States, including the U.S. Census Bureau, the Pew Research Center, the National Institutes of Health, the ADA, and several public and private domestic universities;
The practices of several organizations in the nonprofit sector that have done significant recent work in the practice of demographic data collection, including but not limited to GuideStar, Funders for LGBTQ Issues, RespectAbility and others.