Funding for a Rochester City Schools elementary school that wants to add Wii packages to its fitness room, an AfriKuumba Dance and Drum program at several city recreation centers and an Iroquois social dancing program at the Native American Cultural Center Inc. are among 73 mini-grant awards Greater Rochester Health Foundation announced Thursday.
GRHF has so far dispensed some $1.3 million in mini-grants as part of a multi-year initiative to fight childhood obesity. Individual awards range from $500 to $7,500. This year’s 73-grant round totals $378,000.
Other organizations that won GRHF funding in the current mini-grant round include Lakeside Child & Family Center in Charlotte, which plans to start a vegetable garden to promote healthy eating for children and families; the Gates Chili Central School District’s Florence Brasser Elementary School, which plans to start a weekly after-school fitness program, continue its before-school running club and buy playground equipment; and Elim Christian Fellowship for a two-week camp for church and neighborhood children and to integrate active play into church youth activities throughout the year.
Planned as a 10-year initiative, the foundation’s anti-childhood-obesity drive is now in its third year. An independent evaluation of results of year one and two found that 90 percent of grantees saw an increase in children’s activity and 87 percent reported that children maintained the higher activity level, GRHF CEO John Urban said.
A complete list of 2010 mini-grant recipients is available at www.thegrhf.org.
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