New Expansion Grant to
Help More Schools Get Healthy
I received this announcement from the Clinton Foundation this week. Here is what I received (it’s verbatim):
"On August 7th,
President Clinton returned to Little Rock, Ark., for the 2nd Annual Healthy
Schools Forum, where hundreds of educators and students gathered at the Clinton
Presidential Center to discuss strategies to make their school environments
healthier for students and staff.
"At the conclusion of the Forum, the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation announced a $20 million grant to expand the Healthy Schools Program.
The grant will allow the program to reach more than 8,000 schools in states with
the highest obesity rates by 2010. The Forum also featured the presentation of
bronze recognition awards to the first 26 schools from around the nation that
met the standards set by the Alliance for providing healthy foods and
encouraging physical activity."
Learn more about what the Alliance is doing to make schools
healthy.