Facilitating alignment, collaboration, and communication among RWJF Healthy School Environments grantees to advance progress through systems change

The Foundation's Healthy Schools Program Authorization was designed to enable systemic changes that promote healthy school environments by supporting applied research and translation; policy analysis and development; and coordinated, strategic action that promotes and improves the health and well-being of children within school settings, to facilitate their optimal learning experience, underpinned by the evidence of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child framework.This contract supports MMS Education (MMS) in facilitating alignment, collaboration, and communication among the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the three new work areas and their lead organizations (Applied Research and Translation, Washington University in St. Louis; Policy Analysis and Development, Child Trends; and Strategic Action and Alignment, America's Promise Alliance) of the Healthy School Environments initiative, for the purpose of advancing healthy school environments through systems change. MMS will coordinate various administrative activities across the initiative; help to uplift potential collaboration, alignment, and grantee capacity-building opportunities; facilitate the shaping of learning questions, objectives, and continuous-learning activities; support content development and logistics support for convenings; and engage experts who can bring important perspectives and insights to the project. Key deliverables for MMS will include, but are not limited to, developing an overarching calendar and joint master time line for the initiative; establishing and facilitating calls with RWJF staff every other week or monthly and leading regular check-in calls to the leads; conducting four learning webinars; designing and implementing up to two learning sessions; writing four learning briefs to capture key insights about the project process and outputs; designing, facilitating, and providing logistics support for two annual in-person convenings; and developing and engaging a list of content and functional experts for various purposes throughout the project period.