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RWJF is committed to tackling one of the most urgent threats to the health of our children and families—childhood obesity. Our goal is to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
March 1, 2006
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Program Result Report
New Jersey mayors play a key role in decisions regarding land use planning and design in their communities yet, many lack good information about the connection between community design and public health.
June 1, 2006
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Program Result Report
The California Center gathered and prepared a group of 31 teens to participate in the 2003 Smart Growth Network conference on community planning and design.
June 1, 2005
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Program Result Report
Friends of the Community Path, a Somerville, Mass., citizens' group, helped raise funds to design a new 2.5-mile extension of a bicycle and pedestrian pathway that, when completed, will connect a popular commuter bikeway to downtown Boston.
November 1, 2004
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Program Result Report
New Jersey Future, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and advocacy organization, developed a special "Creating Healthy Communities" section on its Smart Growth Gateway Web site (no longer in existence) in April 2003.
November 1, 2004
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Program Result Report
For its September/October 2003 issue, the American Journal of Health Promotion published a special issue entitled "Health Promoting Community Design."
February 1, 2008
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Program Result Report
From 2001 to 2006, the American Planning Association provided guidance and tools to urban planners and other planning and design professionals and decision-makers to help them create communities that promote physical activity.
August 25, 2008
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Program Result Report
The Active Living Network provided experts from disciplines active in community design with information about how community design can promote health and physical activity.
February 4, 2013
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Program Result Report
From 2001 to 2009, 25 community partnerships across the country pursued projects designed to revamp the built environment and change public policies to make physical activity part of everyday life.
November 5, 2012
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Program Result Report
A Progress Report: Combating childhood obesity through local and state policy change.
August 25, 2011
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Program Result Report
Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi created and implemented Get a Life!, an initiative to combat childhood obesity by improving access to nutritious food and increasing opportunities for safe physical activities for children in the region.
