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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.
May 23, 2011
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From 2009 to 2010, Active Voice, San Francisco, organized Ingredients for Change, a nationwide grassroots campaign designed to spur public awareness and advocacy around healthy food, food justice and childhood obesity.
December 2, 2008
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Program Result Report
From 2005 to 2007, the Trust for Public Land's Healthy Parks, Healthy Communities program (now Parks for People) worked with community groups in four Western cities to promote the development of new urban parks.
December 1, 2002
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Priscilla J. Murphy explored the practices, knowledge and attitudes regarding physical activity through four focus groups: mothers on welfare, chronically ill adults, senior citizens and low-income, minority women.
June 1, 2007
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The University of Texas examined the perceptions of NYC residents of low-income areas about their neighborhoods to determine factors that help or hinder them from increasing their physical activity.
February 1, 2007
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The Food Research and Action Center wrote a white paper on the relationships between poverty, hunger and food insecurity, as well as the role of federal food nutrition programs in reducing hunger and obesity.
November 27, 2012
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In 2010, the National Urban League launched an initiative to address childhood obesity through policy and program activities both on the national level and through its local affiliates.
August 25, 2011
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Re/Storing Nashville sought to address lack of access to healthy foods and childhood obesity in three Nashville neighborhoods by increasing residents' access to full-service grocery stores.
May 23, 2011
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Program Result Report
The Hunger Action Network increased access to healthy, affordable food among low-income residents in selected neighborhoods in New York City and Schenectady, N.Y.
August 4, 2010
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Program Result Report
ISAIAH, a faith-based community organization of 90 congregations, mobilized community activists to promote the links between transportation and access to healthy foods and to bring light-rail stops to low-income neighborhoods in the Twin Cities.
April 1, 2011
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Program Result Report
The Food Research and Action Center worked with state and local agencies, providers of after-school and summer programs and anti-hunger activists to expand the number of low-income children receiving healthy meals and snacks.
