Active for Life®: Increasing Physical Activity Levels in Adults Age 50 and Older

Program to increase the number of American adults age 50 and older who engage in regular physical activity.

• University of South Carolina Research Foundation

  Columbia, SC

  $499,247—Evaluation of Active for Life (3 years).
  ID 46322

Active Living by Design

Initiative designed to establish and evaluate innovative approaches that support active living.

Program Sites

• Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation

  Charlottesville, VA

  $10,000—Researching and implementing a social marketing plan to increase physical activity (1 year).
  ID 51973

• Chinatown Community Development Center Inc.

  San Francisco, CA

  $10,000—Creating and maintaining interdisciplinary partnerships to increase active living opportunities (1 year).
  ID 52005

• Town of Jackson

  Jackson, WY

  $10,000—Promoting healthy lifestyles through the creation of community biking and walking trails (1 year).
  ID 52007

• City of San Diego

  San Diego, CA

  $10,000—Creating a pedestrian pathways master plan (1 year).
  ID 52008

• To Our Children’s Future With Health

  Philadelphia, PA

  $10,000—Increasing physical activity and promoting active living in urban communities (1 year).
  ID 52000

• Washington Regional Network for Livable Communities

  Washington, DC

  $10,000—Creating a pedestrian-friendly business district (1 year).
  ID 52006

Other Program Activities

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health

  Chapel Hill, NC

  $1,561,230—Technical assistance and direction for Active Living by Design (1 year).
  ID 48404

Active Living Leadership

Program to educate and assist state and local officials to understand the connections among community design, physical activity and health.

Program Sites

• American Association of School Administrators

  Arlington, VA

  $20,000—Creating awareness and action among school administrators to address youth obesity through improved school policies and practice (4 months).
  ID 52291

• Council of State Governments

  Lexington, KY

  $20,000—Investigating opportunities to foster and support state leadership on youth obesity issues (4 months).
  ID 51775

• International City/County Management Association

  Washington, DC

  $131,582—Developing local government leaders for active living (8 months).
  ID 51668

• Local Government Commission

  Sacramento, CA

  $114,500—Developing local leaders for active living by community design (7 months).
  ID 51669

• National Conference of State Legislatures

  Denver, CO

  $73,440—Educating state legislators about active living (7 months).
  ID 51670

• National Governors Association Center for Best Practices

  Washington, DC

  $94,479—Educating state leaders on active living issues (5 months).
  ID 49805

• National League of Cities Institute Inc.

  Washington, DC

  $20,000—Investigating opportunities to foster and support local leadership on youth obesity issues (4 months).
  ID 51774

Other Program Activities

• San Diego State University Foundation

  San Diego, CA

  $172,906—Active Living Leadership Coordination Center (6 months).
  ID 49856

Active Living Research

Program to stimulate and support research to identify environmental factors and policies that influence physical activity.

Program Sites

• American Foundation for the Blind Inc.

  New York, NY

  $100,000—Assessing the impact of urban community features on physical activities among persons with motor and visual impairments (18 months).
  ID 52337

• University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design

  Berkeley, CA

  $20,000—Studying children’s travel patterns to school and developing policies to promote nonmotorized transport (17 months).
  ID 50840

• University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health

  Berkeley, CA

  $525,000—Examining the environmental correlates of walking among older adults (2 years).
  ID 52515

• University of California, Davis, College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences

  Davis, CA

  $20,000—Studying the transportation and pedestrian patterns of urban residents (1 year).
  ID 51596

• Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

  Cleveland, OH

  $99,992—Studying the use of modified school grounds as community parks to increase adolescent physical activity (17 months).
  ID 51590

• University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

  Denver, CO

  $50,000—Planning a longitudinal study of the built environment and physical activity (1 year).
  ID 52092

• Cornell University College of Human Ecology

  Ithaca, NY

  $100,000—Examining the impact of neighborhood design on physical activity (2 years).
  ID 50311

• University of Florida College of Health and Human Performance

  Gainesville, FL

  $225,000—Studying diverse communities and the effects of environmental factors on leisure-time physical activities in public parks (2 years).
  ID 52433

• Georgia Tech Research Corporation

  Atlanta, GA

  $24,720—Studying environmental factors that predict voluntary stair use (10 months).
  ID 50841

  $25,000—Identifying environmental factors that encourage physical activity in senior housing (9 months).
  ID 51712

  $125,000—Studying the effects of stair design on physical activity (2 years).
  ID 51713

• Harvard University School of Public Health

  Boston, MA

  $100,000—Studying the effect of neighborhood and school environments on youth physical activity levels (2 years).
  ID 50376

  $149,991—Studying the contributions of trails and walking paths to adults’ physical activity (2 years).
  ID 51046

• University of Houston College of Education

  Houston, TX

  $300,000—Studying the impact of neighborhood design on leisure and transportation walking among African-American public housing residents (3 years).
  ID 52468

• Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado

  Denver, CO

  $25,000—Studying activity levels of community-dwelling elderly residents in distinct Denver neighborhoods (22 months).
  ID 51597

• University of Maryland National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education

  Baltimore, MD

  $79,050—Identifying and measuring environmental determinants of physical activity (1 year).
  ID 50337

• University of Maryland, College Park, College of Health and Human Resources

  College Park, MD

  $450,000—Studying the relationship between environmental characteristics and out-of-school activity among urban, minority high school students (3 years).
  ID 52338

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health

  Chapel Hill, NC

  $19,968—Identifying patterns of physical activity and sedentary behavior among adolescents (2 years).
  ID 50752

  $20,000—Examining the effects of land use policies and the built environment on physical activity and obesity (1 year).
  ID 50753

  $300,000—Exploring relationships between adult physical activity and measures of community environmental characteristics (3 years).
  ID 52319

• North Carolina State University at Raleigh College of Design

  Raleigh, NC

  $24,968—Investigating how different types of play areas in child care centers affect the physical activity of children ages 3 to 5 (18 months).
  ID 50957

• University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

  Philadelphia, PA

  $100,000—Investigating the impact of neighborhood disorder and crime on physical activity and weight status (18 months).
  ID 52210

• Portland State University School of Urban Studies and Planning

  Portland, OR

  $99,924—Measuring bicycling behavior and its implications for urban planning, health and research (18 months).
  ID 51711

• St. Louis University School of Public Health

  St. Louis, MO

  $99,433—Studying the impact of neighborhood environment on transportation and recreational physical activity (18 months).
  ID 51603

  $49,770—Planning a longitudinal study of the built environment and physical activity (1 year).
  ID 52090

• The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health

  Houston, TX

  $500,000—Studying the impact of legislation on school-based physical activity and nutrition for elementary schoolchildren (3 years).
  ID 52467

• University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee College of Health Sciences

  Milwaukee, WI

  $99,996—Measuring environmental impact on physical activity levels among the elderly (2 years).
  ID 51615

Other Program Activities

• San Diego State University Foundation

  San Diego, CA

  $1,032,129—Technical assistance and direction for Active Living Research (1 year).
  ID 48399

  $45,150—Commissioning papers useful to the development of evidence in support of active living (22 months).
  ID 50281

  $82,255—Seminar to build researcher capacity for Active Living Research (22 months).
  ID 50282

Active Living Resource Center

Program to improve health by encouraging collaboration among planning, health and non-traditional entities for the purpose of designing activity-friendly communities.

• Bicycle Federation

  Bethesda, MD

  $277,500—(7 months).
  ID 50452

Arizona State University College of Education

Tempe, AZ

$123,795—Developing a valid survey and assessment of food marketing in schools (for 1 year).
ID 49657

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

$50,000—Evaluating the impact of state nutrition policy change on student lunch selection and sales (for 6 months).
ID 51807

Boston University School of Public Health

Boston, MA

$84,574—Partnering with minority professional and volunteer service organizations to increase healthy eating and physical activity among children (for 1 year).
ID 52242

Brooklyn Children’s Museum Corp.

Brooklyn, NY

$20,000—Planning a national health initiative to combat childhood obesity (for 8 months).
ID 51261

Burnt Chimney Elementary School

Wirtz, VA

$1,500—Capstone event for a project to increase physical activity among fifth grade students (for 3 months).
ID 51262

California Center

Sacramento, CA

$37,500—Developing an advocacy plan for youth to prevent childhood obesity (for 6 months).
ID 51335

Center for Science in the Public Interest

Washington, DC

$25,000—Analysis of unhealthy and healthy food vending contract profits and alternative fundraising for schools (for 1 year).
ID 52181

Communications Projects

Multiple Contractors

$25,000—Roundtable for assessing health care strategies for prevention and treatment of childhood obesity (for 6 months).
ID 50772

$45,000—Consulting for the Foundation’s Childhood Obesity strategy (for 1 year).
ID 51374

$48,750—Technical assistance and planning for an initiative to promote healthy eating in children (for 1 year).
ID 52316

Community Food Security Coalition Inc.

Venice, CA

$45,000—Workshops to develop farm-to-school programs to promote healthy eating habits and reduce obesity among children (for 1 year).
ID 51268

Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Atlanta, GA

$54,873—Developing measures of community food environments (for 1 year).
ID 50312

Food Research & Action Center Inc.

Washington, DC

$15,250—Developing a white paper on obesity, hunger and federal child nutrition programs (for 6 months).
ID 49725

$21,000—Roundtable meeting on obesity, poverty and federal food programs (for 6 months).
ID 49726

The Food Trust

Philadelphia, PA

$117,400—Developing a school- and community-based intervention to prevent and reduce obesity among fourth through eighth grade students (for 15 months).
ID 51267

George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services

Washington, DC

$50,000—Developing a guide to using health insurance resources for childhood obesity prevention and treatment (for 6 months).
ID 52240

Harvard University School of Public Health

Boston, MA

$25,000—Planning an evaluation of the YMCA’s after-school program to promote active living and healthy eating among low-income families (for 2 months).
ID 52055

$102,388—Statistical modeling to estimate the changes in energy balance needed to reverse the epidemic of obesity and overweight in U.S. children (for 1 year).
ID 52194

Healthy Schools Incorporated dba Action for Healthy Kids

Skokie, IL

$50,000—Demonstration program in eight Chicago schools to help children make healthy food choices (for 1 year).
ID 52241

Healthy Schools Incorporated dba Action for Healthy Kids

Washington, DC

$50,000—Establishing evaluation criteria for school-based interventions that address childhood obesity (for 6 months).
ID 49649

University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health

Chicago, IL

$51,985—Rapid anthropological assessment procedures for preventing childhood obesity in low-income minority communities (for 1 year).
ID 50750

Information for Action: School Policies to Combat Childhood Obesity

Program to evaluate the effectiveness of school-based initiatives in reducing childhood obesity.

Program Sites

• University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Public Health

  Little Rock, AR

  $812,620—Evaluating school policies to combat childhood obesity in Arkansas (1 year).
  ID 50262

Other Program Activities

• University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas Center for Health Improvement

  Little Rock, AR

  $99,747—Monitoring an epidemiological database on childhood obesity in Arkansas (4 months).
  ID 51738

• Samuels & Associates

  Oakland, CA

  $100,763—Workshop for experts on measuring school policies to combat childhood obesity (1 year).
  ID 50063

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Princeton, NJ

$54,345—Developing the business case for smaller portion sizes to prevent childhood obesity (for 1 year).
ID 49916

The Media Network, Inc.

Silver Spring, MD

$100,000—Focus groups to assess perceptions of childhood obesity in low-income minority communities (for 6 months).
ID 51123

MEM Associates Inc.

New York, NY

$30,000—Planning a program to prevent childhood obesity in Maine (for 6 months).
ID 50456

$30,000—Pilot program to train physicians to coach families to modify behavior and prevent childhood obesity in Maine (for 1 year).
ID 52285

State of Michigan Department of Education

Lansing, MI

$100,000—Addressing childhood obesity in Michigan through after-school programs (for 1 year).
ID 52216

The Morehouse School of Medicine Inc.

Atlanta, GA

$132,942—Developing an initiative to address the epidemic of obesity in children (for 1 year).
ID 49253

National Academy of Sciences–Institute of Medicine

Washington, DC

$40,000—Developing and publishing a book on preventing obesity in children and youth (for 1 year).
ID 49882

$700,000—Follow-up activities to a report on preventing childhood obesity (for 16 months).
ID 52339

National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Inc.

Atlanta, GA

$50,000—Creating the Community Preventive Services Guide of promising school-based interventions to prevent childhood obesity (for 6 months).
ID 52221

NETSCAN iPublishing, Inc.

Falls Church, VA

$21,500—Tracking state initiatives on child and adolescent nutrition, physical activity and obesity (for 1 year).
ID 49123

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Philadelphia, PA

$24,829—Cohort study of children at high risk for obesity (for 4 months).
ID 51323

Plainfield Board of Education

Plainfield, NJ

$50,000—Piloting the use of school gardens to teach nutrition and improve school food offerings (for 1 year).
ID 51277

Public Health Institute

Oakland, CA

$90,000—Follow-up activities to an expert meeting on ways to accelerate progress on nutrition/food policy (for 6 months).
ID 51287

$45,000—Convening evaluation experts to review California’s large-scale, social marketing approach to nutrition education (for 6 months).
ID 52053

Pyramid Communications, Inc.

Seattle, WA

$180,000—Active Living Network: a cross-sector initiative to promote physical activity and healthy eating (for 10 months).
ID 49658

$48,702—Blueprint report for adapting culturally appropriate healthy lifestyle interventions for children living in low socioeconomic communities (for 10 months).
ID 50814

University of Rochester Center for Child Health Research

Rochester, NY

$63,500—Assessing and overcoming barriers to routine body mass index screening for youth (for 1 year).
ID 49995

Samuels & Associates

Oakland, CA

$42,247—Changing school policies to prevent childhood obesity: case studies of vanguard schools in California (for 1 year).
ID 50462

San Diego State University Foundation

San Diego, CA

$27,370—Scholarships for TIME/ABC News Summit on Obesity (for 1 month).
ID 51122

Santa Fe Partners in Education

Santa Fe, NM

$25,000—Developing an innovative model for elementary school-based nutrition education (for 1 year).
ID 51958

TIME Inc.

New York, NY

$500,000—TIME/ABC News Summit on Obesity (for 3 months).
ID 50561

Transportation and Land Use Collaborative of Southern California

Azusa, CA

$10,000—Conference session on healthy community design issues for representatives from low-income neighborhoods (for 6 months).
ID 51709

White Mountain Research Associates, L.L.C.

Danbury, NH

$97,190—Technical assistance for the development of a research program aimed at building the evidence for environmental and policy strategies to promote healthy eating in children (for 1 year).
ID 52195

Zuni Public School District #89

Zuni, NM

$50,000—Pilot project to promote consumption of fruits and vegetables among Zuni Pueblo public schoolchildren (for 1 year).
ID 50334

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