Grant Alert Detail
Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Submitted: 12/4/2008 12:00:00 AM
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities
The Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities program focuses on implementing healthy eating and active living projects in communities across the United States with special emphasis on reaching children who are at highest risk for obesity on the basis of race/ethnicity, income and/or geographic location. RWJF will award grants to increase opportunities for physical activity and to improve access to affordable healthy foods for children and families. Approximately half of the grants will be given to communities in states where the risk for childhood obesity is the greatest.
As many as 60 grants of up to $360,000 each will be awarded for 4 years. An eligible community is defined as a municipality, county, district or region with partners that are able to plan, advocate for and implement changes to policies, environments and systems. The lead agency for the project must be a 501(c) (3) organization.
Deadline: February 3, 2009
Please Note: The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS) does not administer this funding opportunity.
Contact the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for complete program information and application guidelines:
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=20603
See also:
Childhood obesity fact sheet
Childhood overweight: A select bibliography
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