Grants

Aligning Forces for Quality: The Regional Market Project

The Foundation's initiative, Aligning Forces for Quality: The Regional Market Place was designed to help communities across the country align health care forces to improve the quality of health care. Healthy Memphis Common Table's Million Calorie M.A.T.C.H AF4Q MATCH initiative is a collaboration among many partners to address the diet and exercise habits of the citizens of the City of Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, to address a local obesity epidemic. The policies advanced by the project are aimed at transforming the food and physical activity environments in multiple organizations and community venues. Targeted organizations include local municipalities (policy changes targeted to effect all public buildings), major employers, nonprofits, and churches. Deliverables will include the creation of policies that require healthy options in food and beverage machines, limiting desserts at meetings to fruit or smaller portions, requiring caterers to provide calorie counts on food, encouraging physical activity during the work day, and reorienting public spaces to encourage physical activity.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded $197,268.00

Awarded on: 11/3/2011

Time frame: 12/1/2011 - 11/30/2013

Grant Number: 69645

Grantee

Healthy Memphis Common Table

Medical Plaza 2
6027 Walnut Grove, Suite 215
Memphis, TN, 38120-2127

901-684-6011
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Renee Sherry Frazier
Project Director

901-273-2617
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Connie Binkowitz
Project Director

901-273-2617
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