Please see the message below from Voices for Healthy Kids on two new grant opportunities.
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The American Heart Association Voices for Healthy Kids Campaign is pleased to announce two open grant opportunities. Please see below – all application materials are located online at:
http://voicesforhealthykids.org/grant-opportunities/
The American Heart Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are working to create a culture of health with the Voices for Healthy Kids initiative. Through this collaboration, and in partnership with a team of experts across the healthy eating and
active living movement, the initiative aims to engage, organize, and mobilize people to help all children grow up at a healthy weight. Voices for Healthy Kids will advance coordinated state, local, and tribal public policy issue advocacy campaigns focused
on healthy eating and active living, and will utilize the American Heart Association’s proven advocacy capacity to drive meaningful and widespread policy change.
The goal of the grant opportunities within this initiative is to make effective strategic investments in ongoing state, local, and tribal public policy issue campaigns in order to increase public policy impact on healthy weight and living among children. Voices
for Healthy Kids is focusing efforts in schools, community, and out-of-school time/early care and education. Applications should support at least one Voices
for Healthy Kids Policy Lever.
STRATEGIC CAMPAIGN FUND – OPEN RFA ANNOUNCEMENT:
Strategic Campaign Funds Open RFA opportunity aims to fund strategic issue advocacy campaigns focused on helping kids grow up at a healthy weight through state, local, and tribal public policy campaigns. The duration of these grants will vary but will generally
be one year or less. Awards of up to $90,000 are available. Applications must be specific to an individual campaign focused on changing public policy in one state, local, or tribal geographic location and must align with one of the Voices for Healthy Kids
policy priorities.
Application Details and Deadlines:
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Funding requests up to $90,000.
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Applications will not be evaluated unless all requested information is submitted.
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The deadline for application submission is Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 5pm (CST).
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All applications must be submitted via email to
[log in to unmask].
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For questions or assistance, please view the Application Instructions, FAQ, or contact Shannon Melluzzo, Grants Manager at
[log in to unmask].
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Award notifications will be sent on Friday, September 30, 2016 for a funding start date on October 1, 2016.
INCUBATOR FUND ANNOUNCEMENT:
The goal of this Strategic Campaign Fund Incubator opportunity is to support innovation and engage additional partners and strategies that will further the efforts of existing Voices for Healthy Kids campaigns, particularly by empowered engagement of priority
populations most impacted by childhood obesity.
All grants awarded within this opportunity will be 100% non-lobbying funding.
Application Details and Deadlines:
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Funding requests may range from $15,000 to $30,000.
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Applications will not be evaluated unless all requested information is submitted.
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Alignment with ongoing funded campaigns preferred.
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The deadline for application submission is Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 5pm (CST).
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All applications must be submitted via email to
[log in to unmask].
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For questions or assistance, please view the Application Instructions, FAQ located at
http://voicesforhealthykids.org/grant-opportunities/ or feel free to contact [log in to unmask].
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Award notifications will be sent on Wednesday, August 31, 2016
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The application is in Adobe Reader – for free download visit: https://get.adobe.com
A completed application will include:
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Completed Application
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Excel Budget on provided template
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501c3 Letter
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Letter of Reference from the Voices for Healthy Kids campaign that will be collaborating on this project. (If applicable)
To learn more about our current Grant Opportunities, please visit:
http://voicesforhealthykids.org/grant-opportunities/
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