Active Living Partners

Active Living Research is a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in association with the San Diego State University, created to stimulate and support research that will identify environmental factors and policies that influence physical activity. Findings are expected to inform changes that will promote active living among Americans.

Active For Life ® is a four-year, national initiative, supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in association with the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health, that seeks to increase the number of American adults age 50 and older who engage in regular physical activity. Active for Life will replicate and expand programs already developed that have demonstrated efficacy in increasing physical activity levels among mid-life and older adults. One element of the Active for Life program was a community demonstration site program conducted by AARP in Richmond, VA and Madison, WI.

The Active Living Network (ALN) is a project of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation committed to building and supporting a national network of leaders who are creating places that support physical activity, like walking and bicycling. Its first-year goals are to increase understanding of the link between environment and physical activity and to foster cross-sector dialog among professional sectors and interests.

Active Living by Design (ALbD) is a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in association with the UNC School of Public Health in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The program will establish and evaluate innovative approaches to increase physical activity through community design, public policies and communications strategies. Community partnerships will be funded to develop, implement and sustain collaboration among a variety of organizations in public health and other disciplines, such as city planning, transportation, architecture, recreation, crime prevention, traffic safety and education, as well as key advocacy groups concentrating on land use, public transit, non-motorized travel, public spaces, parks, trails, and architectural practices that advance physical activity.

Active Living Leadership (ALL) is a three-year national initiative of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support state and local government leaders in their efforts to create and promote places, spaces, and policies that enable active living. LAL staff and Leadership Grantees (The International City/County Management Association, Local Government Commission, and the National Governors Association’s Center for Best Practices) are working in five target states (California, Colorado, Kentucky, Michigan, and Washington) in first year of this initiative.

Active Living Resource Center (ALRC) is a project of the National Center for Bicycling & Walking supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to promote community design for active living through technical assistance, capacity-building, outreach and communications. ALRC resources address bicycling and walking issues in the context of transportation; land use planning; school-related issues; parks, recreation and trails; and safety and security. You are currently reading a page located on the Active Living Resource Center web site.

Active Living Blueprint is a coalition of organizations including the American College of Sports Medicine; AARP; American Geriatrics Society; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Council on Aging. The coalition develops strategies to increase physical activity among adults age 50 and older and in doing so to improve the health and well being of all Americans.

About The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, based in Princeton, N.J., is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care. It concentrates its grant making in four goal areas: to assure that all Americans have access to basic health care at reasonable cost; to improve care and support for people with chronic health conditions; to promote healthy communities and lifestyles; and to reduce the personal, social and economic harm caused by substance abuse – tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs.