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Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities: Supporting Community Action to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To catalyze and support policy and environmental change projects to promote children's physical activity and healthy eating, especially in lower-income and racial/ethnic communities at greatest risk.
National Program
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health
400 Market Street, Suite 205
Chapel Hill, NC, 27516-4028
919-843-8430
Website
Sarah L. Strunk
Program Director
919-843-3122
Email
Mary Beth Powell
Deputy Director
919-843-3124
Email
Katy Jones
Communications Officer
919-843-3077
Email
RWJF Staff
Recent Grants
- $45,000.00 awarded to Berkeley Charleston Dorchester Council of Governments - Developing a regional bicycle/pedestrian network to promote physical activity
- $45,000.00 awarded to Albuquerque City Council - Developing and integrating policy outcomes to establish environmental interventions
- $400,000.00 awarded to City of Somerville Health Department - Implementing a multidisciplinary approach to increasing healthy eating and physical activity in and around Somerville, Mass.
- $400,000.00 awarded to PedNet Coalition Inc. - Identifying specific policy changes that provide low-income families with access to nutritious foods and routine physical activity
- $400,000.00 awarded to Summit Health Institute for Research and Education, Inc. - Promoting healthy living among children and their families in the Washington, D.C., area