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The Balance Project: Bringing Healthy Eating and Active Living to Children’s Environments
Sponsor: Children in Balance
Submitted: 10/22/2007 10:22:13 AM
Children in Balance -- The Balance Project: Bringing Healthy Eating and Active Living to Children’s Environments
Children in Balance, a project of the New Balance Foundation, is accepting applications for its Balance Project: Bringing Healthy Eating and Active Living to Children’s Environments grant program. The purpose of the program is to determine whether a program to improve the health of 1st-3rd graders and their families that was previously successful in Somerville, Massachusetts is able to help other under-served, urban communities nationwide.
Award amounts are $300,000 over two years for three intervention communities; and $10,000 in 2008-2009 for three control communities; communities must contribute $100,000 over two years. Eligible applicants are nonprofit or local government agencies in communities (incorporated, urban cities with populations of 50,000-125,000 with an independent government structure including an elected mayor) that demonstrate racial, ethnic, and economic diversity; and have an established, community-based coalition working on issues of childhood obesity that includes a wide representation of stakeholders ready to act, but not yet engaged in any major prior or current school-wide or community-wide childhood obesity intervention.
Deadline: November 15, 2007
Please Note: The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS) does not administer this funding opportunity.
Contact the Children in Balance grant program directly for complete program information and program guidelines:
www.childreninbalance.org
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