UnitedHealth HEROES service-learning grant

Posted by on August 22, 2011

The UnitedHealth HEROES program is a service-learning, health literacy initiative that awards grants to help youth, ages 5-25, create and implement local, hands-on programs to fight childhood obesity. The grants encourage semester-long projects that launch on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January 16, 2012) and culminate on Global Youth Service Day (April 20-22, 2012).

Schools, service-learning coordinators, non-profits, and students in the health professions located in all 50 states and the District of Columbia are eligible to apply for the $500 – $1,000 grants.

Applications must be submitted online before midnight October 17, 2011.  To obtain an application, visit http://www.YSA.org/HEROES.

For more about YSA grants and awards, visit http://www.YSA.org/grants


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