The Los Angeles Collaborative for Healthy Active Children offers mini-grants to help groups conduct projects that will improve the health of local children and support the efforts of the Collaborative.

The Collaborative will support these mini-grants with funds provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture/California Department of Health Services/Network for a Healthy California grant. All activities and materials paid for with these funds must be targeted to low-income individuals or households eligible for Food Stamps. Proposed projects should:

• Promote, encourage or advocate increased daily consumption of fruits and vegetables as part of healthy eating that is consistent with the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans and USDA Food Guidance System.
• Promote, encourage or advocate healthy eating and active lifestyles that are consistent with the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans and USDA Food Guidance System.

Who can apply?
Eligible applicants must be Los Angeles County nonprofit organizations exempt from Federal income taxes under Section 501 (a) of the Internal Revenue Codes.

Timeline
Eligible applicants may apply for up to $5,000. . The funding must be spent by the end of September each year.
 

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Mini-Grant Project Summaries 2008-2009

• South Asian Health Network: Community Health Action Initiative “CHAI” Nutrition Education Program
• Socrates Opportunity Scholarships (SOS) Foundation: SOSMentor Shape Up--Healthy Steps for Healthy Lives
• Los Angeles Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance: Xinachtli (Germinating Seed) Nutrition Education Project
• Weingart East Los Angeles YMCA: Move Into a Nutritious You

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Mini-Grant Project Summaries 2007-2008

• Maternal and Child Health Access (MCHA): The NEST Project- Nutrition Education, Support and Training
• City of Duarte: Duarte Spring Health Camp
• Northeast Valley Health Corporation : Youth Empowerment Through Nutrition Education (YENE)
• SOSMentor Healthy Steps to Healthy Lives ShapeUp Project 2008 at Garfield High School and 4th Street Elementary School
• Enrichment Works: Food For Thought II: The Message Comes Home
• Los Angeles Child Care and Development Council, Inc: Your Favorite Foods a Lighter Way
• The Marilyn Magaram Center: Children’s Summer Cooking Camp: Increasing Nutrition and Food Awareness within the Community and Environment

 

This material was produced by the California Department of Public Health, Network for a Healthy California, with funding from the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly the Food Stamp Program). These institutions are equal opportunity providers and employers. In California, food stamps provide assistance to low-income households, and can help buy nutritious foods for better health. For food stamp information, call 877-847-3663. For important nutrition information visit www.cachampionsforchange.net.