The Healthy Habits for Life program is offering grants to assist schools in promoting healthy lifestyle choices to their K-12 students.
Donor Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation
State: Kansas
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/31/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Foundation recognizes that schools have a unique opportunity to teach students about healthy habits through curriculum and programs that reach them where they spend so much of their time: school. As a young, captive audience, students can be more easily influenced to develop life-long healthy habits and behaviors. The Foundation hopes that curbing childhood obesity and improving mental health now will translate into healthy adults later, saving health care dollars for all Kansans.
The Foundation is seeking programs that will help Kansas youth:
- Reduce their cardiovascular risk,
- Increase their physical activity,
- Learn healthy eating habits, or
- Reinforce positive mental health.
Funding Information
The maximum grant amount is $2,000 and grants are limited to one per school. School personnel are encouraged to collaborate on a program for their school. Funds cannot be used for salary or wages of any staff or employee; all funds must directly benefit the needs of the program for students.
Eligibility Criteria
- School nurses, physical education teachers, principals, health or family and consumer science teachers, or other administrators are encouraged to apply for funding that they may use during 2025.
- Grants are being offered in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation service area, which includes all Kansas counties except Johnson and Wyandotte.
For more information, visit BCBSKF.
