Eat Smart, Move More South Carolina list of available grants and resources.
Realizing the mission of making the healthy choice the easy choice in South Carolina will take vision, dedication and probably most importantly....MONEY! Eat Smart, Move More SC has found the following grants might be of interest to get the funding to make your vision a reality!
The Active Schools Acceleration Project (ASAP) Innovation Competition seeks to increase quality in-school physical activity by identifying the best strategies to motivate quality youth physical activity programs and technologies. Get up to $100,000 for your program.
Dr Pepper Snapple & KaBOOM! are excited to offer $15,000 Let’s Play Playground Construction Grants to qualifying organizations within the U.S. wishing to build brand new playgrounds using the KaBOOM! community-build model.
Attention playground owners! Thanks to generous support from Dr Pepper Snapple Group, KaBOOM! will be awarding grants of $750 each to communities this year who wish to make their playgrounds cleaner, safer and more inviting.
Programs selected for funding will be working to address an unmet need related to cardiovascular health in a community, respond to the urgency around addressing cardiovascular health issues (including cardiovascular disease or conditions contributing to cardiovascular disease), and improve patients’ lives through the services provided.
Following is a list of just released articles, fact sheets, toolkits and other various resources on best practice strategies to address healthy eating, active living, and obesity prevention.
The recently launched SNAP website, www.SNAPtoHealth.org, is a “virtual town hall’ for public discourse about innovative strategies to promote health and prevent obesity in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamps Program.
The Eat Smart, Move More Coaltion recently presented a webinar on the SC Obesity State Plan. The webinar depicts where South Carolina is now and provides an overview of the monitoring and tracking practices used to report on the progress South Carolina is making in nutrition, physical activity, and obesity prevention efforts at the state and local level.
Most people like to believe that their children are above average, and to be an above average fruit and vegetable consumer would not be hard. The average child in the U.S. eats no vegetables and the equivalent of less than 1/2 cup of fruit per day. The Center for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities at the University of South Carolina released the January 2012 edition of Policy Brief highlighting a study on fruit and vegetable consumption at a local elementary school.
Fruit and vegetable costumes are available for loan to SC residents from the Bureau of Community Health and Chronic Disease Prevention. These costumes can be used for a variety of nutrition education activities and events such as supermarket tours, National Nutrition Month activities, cooking demonstrations, Walk to School events, and classroom nutrition education presentations.