Contest: Active Schools Acceleration Project Grants

ChildObesity180's Active Schools Acceleration Project (ASAP) will be awarding $1 million in Acceleration Grants to give schools across America what they need to become active schools. Physical activity programming is important - research shows the positive impact healthy kids and strong activity levels have on education. In many schools parents, teachers, and other advocates have great ideas for ways to help make students active, and ASAP is going to help. A thousand schools will each win $1,000 Acceleration Grants to kick start a new program and realize all the benefits of being an active school. That's $1 million to get America's kids moving again in school. There are three possible categories for programs:

• BOKS – A 40-minute before-school physical activity program featuring structured group play with games and drills emphasizing aerobic exertion.
• 100 Mile Club – A walk/run program where students run 100 miles over the course of the school year, logging miles and earning prizes along the way.
• Just Move – A classroom-based activity program featuring an academically integrated curriculum of in-class movement breaks.

Winning schools will receive everything they need to get started: $1,000 in seed funding, a game plan to follow and a support network of champions across the country embarking on the same path.

 

Active Schools Acceleration Project is an initiative of ChildObesity180, an organization that uses evidence-based research, multi-sector leadership and an integrated portfolio of initiatives that together accelerate systemic change to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.