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Centro Latino de San Francisco > San Francisco
Project name: Seniors Walking for Health: Across the Golden Gate Bridge!
Key Goal: Centro Latino de San Francisco will host a walk across the Golden Gate Bridge for Latino seniors this summer.  To help the seniors prepare, they will provide a series of nutrition education classes with physical activity demonstrations.  Seniors will learn to eat and hydrate for activity, and learn correct walking technique and stretches.

Emergency Shelter Program, Inc. > Hayward
Project name: ESP Nutrition & Fitness Awareness
Key goal: As part of its services to women and their children, ESP will provide nutrition and fitness information, training and education to children and their mothers in the homeless shelter and in the preschool setting.

Girls Incorporated of Alameda County > San Leandro
Project name: WOW! Program (Watch out World)
Key Goal: Girls Inc. will provide structured nutrition, fitness and literacy activities after school through the Bridges program and coordination with the regional PowerPlay! Program.

Oakland Food Connection > Oakland
Project name: Food Fitness and Nutrition at EC Reems Academy
Key Goal: OFC will provide after school nutrition education, including cooking with garden produce, PA demonstrations, and empowering youth to make changes.  Students will also help plan two daytime workshops for teachers and parents, thus developing their leadership skills.

People’s Grocery > Oakland
Project name: People’s Grub Parties
Key Goal: People’s Grocery will integrate and expand the Peer-2-Peer Education Program and Be Healthy campaign through the formation of 8 monthly People’s Grub Parties, consisting of cooking demonstrations, food tastings and nutrition education workshops.  These will also serve as outreach for the 8 sessions of free 6-week nutrition and cooking classes.  Additionally, youth will videotape the nutrition education events and distribute DVD’s as part of a follow-up packet to qualifying residents participating in workshops.

Ravenswood Family Health Center > East Palo Alto
Project Name: City on the Move
Key Goal: Create a DVD and resource guide from footage and information captured by local youth highlighting healthy shopping, gardening, and cooking activities in East Palo Alto.  Twelve local organizations will utilize this DVD to promote healthy eating and exercise to their constituents.

Youth Leadership Institute > San Rafael
Project name: Student Nutrition Advisory Council - Pickelweed Community Center
Key Goal: YLI will form a Student Nutrition Advisory Council to receive nutrition workshops and empower students to work with the San Rafael Parks Department to provide healthy vending machine foods.   Students will provide taste tests and participate in cooking demonstrations.

Project Ole > San Francisco
Project name: Green & Lean.
Key Goal: Provide garden-based nutrition education to 200 students through bilingual weekly instruction in the existing school garden.

Carecen > San Francisco
Project name: Help Me Help You!
Key goal: Train 5 youth health promoters to be able to instruct qualifying elementary-aged students on the benefits of fruit and vegetable intake and regular physical activity.

The Health Trust > San Jose
Project name: Neil A. Christie Living Center Nutrition Education Event.
Key Goal: Host a community nutrition education event providing general nutrition education and physical activity promotion for chronic disease prevention in the HIV-positive population

East Oakland Boxing Association > Oakland
Project name: Smartmoves Program.
Key Goal: Expand current program to provide nutrition and physical activity promotion information to youth. Youth will develop a local resource guide of nutrition education and physical activity programs serving themselves and their families. In addition, provide parent-focused nutrition education workshops.

San Jose State University Foundation > San Jose
Project name: Senior Nutrition & Wellness Fair.
Key Goal: Provide nutrition education and physical activity promotion for Asian seniors by conducting a community education event that provides information on fruit and vegetable intake, cooking skills and daily physical activity.

Sports4Kids > Oakland
Project name: PowerPlay!4Kids.
Key Goal: Work with PowerPlay! Coordinator to incorporate nutrition education tailored for 9-11 year olds into an existing play-based physical activity after school curriculum.

Alameda County Office of Education > Hayward
Project name: Rock La Fleche Health & Nutrition Service Learning Program.
Key Goal: Use service-learning model to help students become peer educators engaged in nutrition education through creating a nutrition education video for local low-income and minority target populations. Student preparatory nutrition education will include general nutrition education and taste testing.

Roosevelt Middle School, International Cooking Club > Oakland
The mini-grant will fund an after-school nutrition and healthy cooking class for middle school students.  Students will shop for donated food at a local farmer's market, then cook, freeze and provide sample tastings to school faculty at monthly meetings, thus providing a sense of pride to the students.

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Improving Pregnancy Outcomes Program > San Leandro
This program provides nutrition education to pregnant low-income women in different Alameda County locations.  The mini-grant will allow the expansion of the nutrition education to include fruit and vegetable cooking demonstrations and physical activity demonstrations and train-the-trainer activities.  Audience: WIC enrollees or WIC-eligible pregnant women

Joint project between Sequoia Hospital, Canada College, Samaritan House, Family Service Agency of San Mateo County > Redwood City
Mini-grant will fund a collaborative project between Samaritan House, Family Service Agency of San Mateo County, Sequoia Hospital and Canada College to train promotores to teach a "Live Well" class series to low-income community members.  These community members will be recruited from Samaritan House, a medical clinic serving a low-income population in Redwood City.

Bayshore Community Services > Brisbane
Bayshore Community Services is planning to recruit families to total 350 people from the local schools to participate in a “Walk about Health” walk from station to station to participate in health screenings and learn about nutrition, physical activity and healthy snacks.  The mini-grant will fund the nutrition education and healthy snack portion of this event.

Weigh of Life > Richmond
Offer free nutrition education and physical action demonstrations to low-income community members.  An unfunded benefit is to offer free access to the Weigh of Life facilities and gym on an ongoing basis.

2005 Mini-Grant Recipients
BANPAC is excited to announce the first recipients of the BANPAC/Santa Clara County Public Health Department mini grants!  We were pleased that twenty applications were submitted in response to our first Request for Applications.  The Funding Subcommittee chose five projects to receive funding.  Mini-grants will range from $700-$5000, depending on the project.

Please see below for a description of the projects that will be funded.  Award recipients will be reporting on their projects and sharing their materials in a future BANPAC meeting.

How Now Productions > The DooF PSA to Promote Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
The DooF PSA to Promote Fresh Fruits and Vegetables will be a 30-second vignette featuring children aged six to ten whose backgrounds reflect those of our target audience. The adult-character ‘Nefarious P’ introduces the children to fruits and vegetables at the Mobile Farmer’s Market, which brings fresh produce to inner-city neighborhoods in Oakland. The message that it’s ‘cool’ to enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables will be reinforced through music and rhyme in a format that lower-income children can relate to. Initial target audience is Oakland School District TV station.

San Francisco Study Center > Neighborhood Health and Nutrition Walks
This project will map the locations where fresh fruit and vegetables can be obtained in the two lowest-income San Francisco neighborhoods, Bayview-Hunters Point and the Tenderloin. Information will be presented as an illustrated map with text to describe what’s available at each mom-n-pop grocery, market or farmers’ market; will also promote the new farmers’ market in Bayview. Maps will stress the health benefits of walking by scaling the maps for measured walks of ¼- to 2-mile distances between markets and from senior centers and public housing sites to the farmers markets. 

North Peninsula Neighborhood Services Center > Project FRESH! / Proyecto Fresco(Families Resolved to Eat well, Shape up and be Healthy)
Utilize community leaders to present interactive workshops on nutrition and exercise in Spanish to low income clients of North Peninsula Neighborhood Services Center, Inc., a social service core agency that serves residents of South San Francisco and neighboring cities.   Community partners including City of South San Francisco, San Mateo County Health Services Agency, South San Francisco Unified School District, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center and community members, designed Project FRESH / Proyecto Fresco to improve the health status of racial and ethnic minority populations in South San Francisco.

Continuing Development Inc./Choices For Children > Healthful Choices: Sharing Session
Use USDA materials “Nibbles for Health: Nutrition Newsletters” to conduct workshops for child care staff and parents of children enrolled in 6 subsidized child care centers.  Content will focus on creating a healthful environment, establishing center wellness policies, and supporting center and family efforts to eat smart and be more physically active. 

Bayshore Family Center/Daly City Peninsula Partnership Collaborative > Meet and Treat
Interactive workshop for families in the Bayshore Community focusing on healthy dinner ideas and getting active, also linking them to community health care providers. All participants can sample simple, healthy dinner recipes and engage in physical activities. Information on healthy eating and recipes will be available to take home.