Childhood Obesity Rapid Response Fund

Posted by on April 16, 2012

Administered by the American Heart Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Childhood Obesity Rapid Response Fund announced a funding opportunity (ranging from about $5,000 to $75,000) for strategic, supplemental assistance to state, local, and tribal efforts to change policy on childhood obesity. Though the first grants were awarded last month, applications are being accepted on a rolling basis. Click here to read an overview of the fund, and go here  for additional information. The direct contact and the fund manager is Aaron Doeppers, Manager for State and Local Obesity Initiatives of the American Heart Association aaron.doeppers@heart.org or 608.886.2988


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