Partnership for a Healthier America

Posted by on February 22, 2010

New foundation targets childhood obesity

The Partnership for a Healthier America is a new foundation that has been launched to address the serious epidemic of childhood obesity by bringing together the public and private sectors, other organizations, business and thought leaders, the media, and states and local communities to make meaningful and measurable commitments to fighting childhood obesity.

The nonpartisan organization was created by a number of leading foundations and nonprofits, including The California Endowment, Kaiser Permanente, Nemours, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.

The effort aims to support the national goal to solve the childhood obesity challenge within a generation that has been set by Michelle Obama, who will also serve as Honorary Chair of the new organization.  During the unveiling of her nationwide Let’s Move campaign at an event in Washington today, Obama commended the leadership of these organizations in providing the critical analysis and nonpartisan forum necessary to ensure the country meets its target.

For more information on the foundation, click here.

http://www.healthiergeneration.org/media.aspx?id=4336

For information on Obama’s Let’s Move campaign, click here.

http://www.letsmove.gov/