Grants

Healthy Weight Commitment Evaluation

To support a three-year independent, rigorous, and transparent evaluation of the effects of the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation's marketplace initiative to reduce excess calories in the processed foods and beverages consumed by U.S. children and adolescents.

Grant Details

Amount Awarded $3,500,000.00

Awarded on: 4/29/2010

Time frame: 5/1/2010 - 5/14/2014

Grant Number: 67772

Grantee

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health

400 Market Street, Suite 205
Chapel Hill, NC, 27516-4028

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