Innovative Programs to Address Childhood Obesity

Posted by on April 30, 2012

Safeway Foundation Invites Grant Applications for Innovative Programs to Address Childhood Obesity
Deadline: May 15, 2012

The Safeway Foundation is partnering with Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland to develop community and clinic-based programs designed to reduce the burden of childhood obesity. The program seeks to fund nonprofit organizations with innovative programs to address childhood obesity.

The goals of the program are to empower innovative programs to expand and enhance services, increase capacity, and/or incorporate new strategies to support healthy body weights among children and/or adolescents; evaluate the impact of existing programs; and identify promising approaches that could be replicated, adapted, and implemented in diverse communities nationwide.

The Safeway/CHRCO funding partnership is open to a wide variety of research projects with the potential to prevent and/or treat childhood obesity in communities and medical centers throughout the United States. Preference will be given to proposals that can be implemented and sustained within a community or medical center for little additional cost. Preference also will be given to organizations working in communities where Safeway stores are present.

Interest areas include but are not limited to clinic-community partnerships that create opportunities for children to be physically active; targeted education programs that encourage healthy snacks in children and/or adolescents; school-clinic partnerships that enhance healthy eating and active living in the school environment; and family programs that demonstrate health-supporting activities for children and/or adolescents.

Applicants must be 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, or have a fiscal sponsor that is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The applicant does not have to be affiliated with a healthcare facility or clinic. Applicants must be based within ten miles of a Safeway store (with some flexibility for regions with low-density stores). Proposed programs must use an inter-disciplinary model that includes at least one partnership with a community, clinic, business, and/or academic institution.

Applications will be scored on innovation, potential for immediate implementation, sustainability, and the degree to which the funding will contribute to the overall capacity of the program and personnel. Applicants are strongly advised to include specific measurable outcomes in their project plan.

Initially, the Safeway Foundation is committing $2 million to support about fifteen one-year awards. The amounts awarded may range from $3,000 to a maximum of $100,000 depending on the specific needs of the project. The majority of awards will be within the range of $40,000 to $75,000. Grant funds may not be used for capital improvements, equipment, new staff positions, general donations, loans, student aid, or scholarships. Indirect costs are permissible up to 15 percent of the total costs.

The complete Request for Proposals and the online application form are available at the Safeway Foundation Web site.

http://www.safewayfoundation.org/get-funded/index.html