Youth Service America / UnitedHealth HEROES Grants to Fight Obesity

Youth Service America, along with United Health group, have created the UnitedHealth HEROES program, a health literacy initiative designed to encourage youth to partner with schools and nonprofits to create hands-on programs to fight childhood obesity.

Awards are available up to $1,000.

Educators, students, and nonprofit leaders are eligible to apply.

Deadline: October 22, 2010.

Grants should “engage participating youth in service-learning, an effective teaching and learning strategy that supports student learning, academic achievement, and workplace readiness.” The grants encourage semester-long projects that launch on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January 17, 2011) and culminate on Global Youth Service Day (April 15-17, 2011).

YSA will host two application training webinars, September 16th at 3:00 PM EST and October 5th at 5:00 PM EST, for applicants to learn more about developing a successful project. Please visit the registration link.

To get started, take the eligibility quiz.

For additional support planning your service-learning program addressing childhood obesity, please download the pdf First Responders: Youth Addressing Childhood Obesity Through Service-Learning.

See a list of past grantees.