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April 5, 2007
Eleven 4-H Programs Receive 2007 Healthy Living Grants
Eleven state-wide projects have been awarded 2007 Healthy Living grants, provided by National 4-H Council in collaboration with Kraft Foods, Inc. These grants will help communities create educational programs and public awareness to confront the climbing trends of youth obesity with an emphasis on physical fitness, nutrition and healthy lifestyles.
The grants of up to $7,000 will go to attendees of the 2006 John Deere Leaders Academy to help them implement the state-wide action plans developed at the academy. Each plan will reach a minimum of 500 youth and 100 adults.
The 2007 grant recipients are: Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas and Washington State. These grantees offered fun and creative ways for youth and adults to learn about healthy living, through in-school and after-school activities, as well as day and overnight camps. All of the applications stressed youth-adult collaboration, servicing underserved, ethnic or disadvantaged populations which they plan to continue after the one-year grant is over.
For more information on the great programs planned by these grantees, please visit National 4-H Council’s Healthy Living website.
Posted in category Grants at 9:01 PM