Active Living Partners

Active Living Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, contributes to the prevention of childhood obesity in low-income and high-risk racial/ethnic communities by supporting research to examine how environments and policies influence active living for children and their families.

Active For Life ® is a national initiative, supported by The Robert Wood Johnson 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 that have demonstrated efficacy in increasing physical activity levels among mid-life and older adults.

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 establishes and evaluates innovative approaches to increase physical activity through community design, public policies, and communications strategies. Community partnerships are 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. Key advocacy groups concentrating on land use, public transit, non-motorized travel, public spaces, parks, trails, and architectural practices that advance physical activity are also part of the Active Living by Design program.

Leadership for Active Communities is a national initiative of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to advance policies that support healthy eating and active living to state and local government officials.

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.

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.