Did You Know? The Sunflower Foundation has awarded 172 Healthy Behaviors and Prevention grants totaling over $6.3 million. Links Downloads | Healthy Behaviors and Prevention Goal - Helping people live healthier lives through education, lifestyle choices and environmental factors (physical, cultural and social) that support healthy living. The foundation's current focus under this area of interest includes: 1. Promoting physical activity and proper nutrition as a means to preventing obesity, especially in children and youth. Much of the foundation's work has focused on schools, communities and work sites. 2. Supporting environmental changes that encourage increased physical activity. Specifically, the foundation's priorities are school and community-based walking and multi-use trails. 3. Supporting education and advocacy around tobacco use and clean indoor air.
Current Funding Opportunities Click here for information on the foundation's current RFP to help communities and schools promote increased physical activity by building walking and multi-use trails. |  Fairview Elementary School It’s 8 a.m. and students are lined up in the gymnasium to go outside. Each morning, these students are invited to start the day with a little walk around a path that circles the school’s playground. Calendar October 28, 2010 Final application deadline for the foundation's three current Requests for Proposals (RFPs). Plan to participate in TELEPHONE CONFERENCE CALL BRIEFINGS to discuss the RFPs and the new Online Application process. Watch this website for the briefing schedules as they are announced. Sign up here to receive information on funding opportunities, new projects, grants awarded, news bulletins and more from Sunflower Foundation. NOTE: For best results in receiving electronic communications from the Sunflower Foundation, add info@sunflowerfoundation.org to your address book. |
