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Grant Opportunities

Saucony Run For Good Foundation Offers Grants for Running Programs for Children
The Saucony Run For Good Foundation, a grant program to encourage active and healthy lifestyles in children, is now accepting applications. The grants are open to non-profit organizations that initiate and support running and fitness programs for kids - which in turn will help them live longer, healthier lives. As a company by runners, and for runners, Saucony understands the benefits of running extend way beyond strong legs and healthy hearts; research shows running can also help children do better in school, manage stress, and reduce childhood obesity.
Deadline for Applications: October 8, 2007
http://www.sauconyrunforgood.com/

Foster's Group Limited -- Foster's Community Grants
Description: Foster's Community Grants will support projects in three core focus areas: wellness, culture, and the environment.
Who May Apply: Only registered not-for-profit organizations are eligible for funding.
Application Deadline: September 19, 2007
http://www.fosters.com.au/about/fosterscommunitygrants.htm

National Gardening Association -- Healthy Sprouts Awards
The National Gardening Association (NGA) is accepting applications for its Healthy Sprouts Awards program to support awareness of nutrition and hunger through development of health-focused youth gardens. Award amounts are $200 or $500 in gift certificates towards purchase of gardening materials, a free copy of NGA’s Eat a Rainbow Kit, 25 packets of seeds, a literature package from NGA, and NGA Supporter benefits for one year. Eligible applicants include schools or organizations that plan to garden in 2008 with at least 15 children (ages 3-18) and can demonstrate that the garden program will teach about nutrition and hunger issues in the United States.
Deadline: October 15, 2007
http://www.kidsgardening.com/healthysprouts.asp

Ronald McDonald House Charities -- Children’s Health Grant
Ronald McDonald House Charities is accepting applications for its Children’s Health Grant program to support projects that directly improve the health and well-being of children (ages 0-21), address a significant funding gap or critical opportunity, have a potential long-term impact, and produces measurable results.
Award amounts vary. Eligible applicants include 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, non-profit organizations.
Deadline: August 31, 2007 (Letter of Inquiry)
http://www.rmhc.com/rmhc/index/grants/apply/letter.html

Youth Service America and Walt Disney Company -- Disney Minnie Grants
The Youth Service America and Walt Disney Company are accepting applications for the Disney Minnie Grants program. The purpose of the program is to support youth (ages 5-14)-led service projects focused on the environment, disaster relief, public health and awareness, community education, hunger, literacy, or any issue that youth identify as a community need. Award amounts are up to $500. Eligible applicants include teachers, older youth (15-25), youth-leaders, and youth-serving organizations that engage younger youth (5-14) in planning and implementation.
Deadline: August 30, 2007
http://ysa.org/AwardsGrants/DisneyMinnieGrant20072ndRound/tabid/244/Default.aspx

William T. Grant Foundation -- Intervention Research to Improve Youth-Serving Organizations
The William T. Grant Foundation is seeking proposals to support intervention research to improve youth-serving organizations. The purpose of the program is to build greater capacity for the field of intervention research focused on youth-serving organizations such as schools and community-based organizations. Projects should focus on intervention research with the goal of promoting youth development for young people ages 8-25. Award amounts range between $250,000 to $1,500,000. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status.
Deadline: October 4, 2007 (Letter of Inquiry)
http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/info-url_nocat3042/info-url _nocat_show.htm?doc_id=287117&attrib_id=11707

Youth Service America/U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention -- YouthPower Grants
Youth Service America, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, is accepting applications for its YouthPower grants program. The purpose of the program is to support youth who are in or have recently transitioned from foster care with planning and implementing community service projects that address the environment, disaster relief, public health and awareness, community education, hunger, literacy or other issues identified as a community need.
Award amounts are $1,000. Eligible applicants are community-based groups/organizations, local government agencies, schools and faith-based groups that are youth-serving and have experience working with youth who are in or have transitioned from foster care, or youth (ages 19-25) who have transitioned from foster care and are working with such organizations in an active planning, implementing, and evaluating role.
Deadline: October 1, 2007
http://ysa.org/AwardsGrants/tabid/58/Default.aspx#grantsavailablenow

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance -- Jump Rope for Heart/Hoops for Heart Grant Program
The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD) is accepting applications for its Jump Rope for Heart/Hoops for Heart grant program. The purpose of the program is to enable organizations that have held a Jump Rope for Heart or Hoops for Heart event in the previous year to purchase equipment to improve their physical education opportunities for children, receive the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) quality Physical Education (PE) package, continue membership with AAHPERD, and attend the AAHPERD National Convention and Exposition. Award amounts are up to $2500 and include: up to $1300 towards AAHPERD membership and for travel expenses to the AAHPERD National Convention and Exposition; $1200 in the form of US Games certificate redeemable for equipment; and a free NASPE Quality PE package. Eligible applicants include schools that have held a Jump Rope for Heart or Hoops for Heart event in the past year.
Deadline: October 15, 2007
http://www.aahperd.org/jump/pdf_files/grant.pdf

News & Resources

Alliance for a Healthier Generation Program in Expanded to States With Highest Obesity Rates
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced a $20 million expansion of the Healthy Schools Program at the 2nd Annual Healthy Schools Forum, held at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark. This is the second major funding commitment for the program from RWJF, which last year awarded $8 million to launch the program. The Alliance created the Healthy Schools Program to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity by helping schools develop and implement policies and practices that promote healthy eating and increased physical activity for students and staff. The program expansion will focus on states with the highest obesity rates, including: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee and West Virginia.
http://www.rwjf.org/newsroom/newsreleasesdetail.jsp?id=10505&c=EMC-CA138

New Breastfeeding Information and Products from CDC
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (DNPAO) would like to bring to your attention the release of a number of new products related to breastfeeding. New breastfeeding data from the National Immunization Survey is now available. A breastfeeding report card of policy and environmental indicators, a crib card, and a research to practice brief are also now available on the CDC Breastfeeding site.
http://www.cdc.gov/Features/Breastfeeding/

New Physical Activity Guidelines Released
The American Heart Association and the American College of Sports
Medicine have updated the guidelines for physical activity . Separate
recommendations are made for healthy adults under age 65 and for adults
over age 65 or with chronic conditions that may limit physical activity.
The guidelines continue the commitment to regular aerobic activity and
recommendations for strength training.
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.185649

SC Governor's Council on Physical Fitness Award Now Accepting Nominations
The South Carolina Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness is accepting nominations for its 11th annual awards to honor outstanding leaders in the field of physical activity. The awards are presented in categories including community, school, worksite, public policy, faith-based and the media in advancing the levels of physical activity in the state.
Nomination forms are due by August 31, 2007 with the presentation made during the University of South Carolina versus South Carolina State University football game Sept. 15.
http://www.scdhec.net/health/chcdp/physical_activity/gcpf/nomination.htm

CDC's Division of Heart Disease and Heart Prevention Releases New Local Environment Handbook
Heart Healthy and Stroke Free: A Social Environment Handbook includes specific strategies for identifying barriers and promoters for heart-healthy and stroke-free living in local environments. It is written for a broad audience (e.g. concerned community and state leaders along with public health professionals) and is unique in that it focuses on the connections between the social environment and the prevention and treatment of heart disease and stroke. All of the specific examples, tables, and worksheets relate directly to heart disease and stroke risk factors, prevention challenges, and treatment issues. The chapters in this handbook are organized into three sections.
The first section discusses three aspects of the social environment that are important for heart-healthy and stroke-free communities: 1) Availability of preventive and medical services, including high blood pressure and high cholesterol 2) Heart-healthy living, specifically physical activity, smoking, and food environments 3) Quality of life issues, such as employment, housing, and social cohesion.
The second section focuses on practical community assessment methods such as windshield surveys, key informant interviews, and library resources. The third section provides blank copies of worksheets that can be photocopied along with a list of resources.
Copies of the following resource may be requested by sending an e-mail to mailto:ccdinfo@cdc.gov.

Community Design for Healthy Eating Guide
Community Design for Healthy Eating: How Land Use and Transportation Solutions Can Help, a research paper from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, examines how community design and transportation flaws have contributed to a decrease in physical activity among Americans and an increase in rate of obesity.
http://www.rwjf.org/files/publications/other/communitydesignhealthyeating.pdf

New Resource for Worksite Wellness
The new Physical Activity @ Work website, launched by the Alberta Centre for Active Living, offers tips and tools for encouraging physical activity at work to increase health (and productivity). The site offers a step-by-step guide to program planning, with guides on everything from making the case to an employer to tracking activities and other features.
http://www.activeliving.org/node/645

Preschoolers Influenced by Fast Food Marketing
A study in the August issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine finds that most preschoolers prefer the taste of food packaged in McDonald's wrappers over identical food in plain wrapping, suggesting that children are significantly influenced by fast-food marketing. Researchers presented participants with five pairs of food items, including hamburgers, chicken nuggets, French fries, milk and carrots, wrapping one item in each pair in McDonald's packaging and the other in similar packaging without the McDonald's logo. In about 60 percent of the tastings, the preschoolers indicated that they preferred the food in the McDonald's wrapper, including the carrots, which at the time were not marketed by McDonald's. Children picked the plainly packaged food in just 22 percent of the tastings and reported no difference or did not complete the experiment in 18 percent of tastings.
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/161/8/792

New Childhood Obesity Toolkit available from the Council of State Government
This Tool Kit provides policymakers with resources, data, trends and examples of solutions being implemented or considered by states and legislators across the country that aim to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.
http://www.healthystates.csg.org/NR/rdonlyres/36F21685-38E8-44BC-9C06-1458515BE93E/0/RWJtoolkitwhole.pdf

Preventing Diseases Through Physical Activity Policy Brief Now Available
The Legislator Policy Brief provides state policymakers with key background information about physical activity among youth and adults and identifies proven, cost-effective policy and legislative strategies to promote active lifestyles.
http://www.healthystates.csg.org/NR/rdonlyres/BEE2060B-CB0B-4EF2-B830-E361D928B17C/0/PreventingDiseasesThroughPhysicalActivityFINAL.pdf

Active Aging Week September 24-October 1
In response to the impending boom in the number of older adults worldwide,
the ICAA will be promoting Active Aging Week, with this year's theme being
"Choose an active life."
Active Aging Week is an annual event held the last week of September
(culminating on October 1, International Day of Older Persons) with the
goal of giving as many older adults as possible the means to experience
activities and exercise in a safe, friendly and fun atmosphere. During the week, host
organizations provide a variety of free activities, such as classes, educational seminars, access to fitness facilities, health fairs and community walks.
http://www.icaa.cc/aaw.htm

Results of the 2007 International Food Information Council (IFIC) Food and Health Survey Released
The IFIC Foundation Food & Health Survey provides ongoing insights into the many connections Americans make between the food they eat and their health. The initial wave of this survey was conducted in 2006 and acts as a benchmark study. The 2007 Food & Health Survey is the second wave. Over time, this survey will provide consumer insights to guide and shape future education and communication initiatives as well as trend data to measure the progress made toward achieving public health goals. The 2006 survey focused primarily on how consumers approach overall diet, physical activity, and weight to manage their physical health. Other questions explored consumer knowledge and attitudes toward principal nutrients, such as fats, sugars, and carbohydrates. Finally, questions addressed consumer attitudes toward and use of information sources such as the Nutrition Facts Panel and MyPyramid in making food choices.
http://www.ific.org/research/foodandhealthsurvey.cfm