• Youth Action Committee: Supports the development of necessary nutrition education resources to support the adoption of policies and programs that promote healthy eating and physical activity to students.
• Food Access/Food Security Committee: Supports access to nutritious food for low-income people through collaboration among related-service providers such as food stamp offices and food banks, development of forums for sharing successful models, and creation of a resource guide.
• Community Environment Committee: Educates and supports communities, especially food stamp-eligible populations, on nutrition and obesity prevention issues and empowers them to take action to promote environmental changes that address these issues.

• Healthy Community Environment Committee Work Plan
• Food Access Work Plan
• School Wellness Work Plan (Youth Action)

Mini-Grant Information

Mini-Grant Recipients

 2010 Mini-Grant Recipients
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2010 Mini-Grant Recipients  < posted 12.10.09
Congratulations to the new BANPAC mini grant recipients!  We look forward to working with you.  And thanks to the many others who applied.  We were thrilled to see how many great applications there were: you made our work hard for us!

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County > San Jose
Project Name: Family Focused Nutrition Education & PA Promotion
Key Goal: Provide a six-week series of nutrition and physical activity workshops for children and their parents, as part of a family literacy program.  Adult workshops will utilize the Network Latino Toolkit.  Parent participants from Luther Burbank who graduated from a BANPAC funded nutrition and salsa-aerobics class will serve as parent trainers and role models in Franklin McKinley.  FMSD Parent Ambassadors will be trained on the Network Latino Toolbox which will be essential to the sustainability of this program.

Estrella Family Services > San Jose
Project Name: Nutrition Education for Healthy Families
Key Goal: Promote good nutrition among staff, children, and families in Estrella programs at Gardner Academy School and on-site preschool at the Paseo Senter Public Housing Complex in Central San Jose through a variety of nutrition promotion activities, including continuous, year-round emphasis on nutrition and fitness, by using the Network for a Healthy California-Power Play! Children’s Campaign Afterschool Toolkit (and adapting it to other grade levels) to instill healthy nutrition messages and reinforce healthy food habits in the classroom environment and by educating parents about how to promote and reinforce these same behaviors at home.

Nextcourse > San Francisco
Project Name: Mission High School Students for Healthy Food
Key Goal: A teacher-led, student group will develop a student healthy food needs questionnaire that will be administered in conjunction with a series of nutrition education events at Mission High.  The results of the questionnaire will become the basis of recommendations presented to school officials for improving student consumption of healthy foods.  Establishing this project as an after school program allows the teacher’s wages to be paid by the school and supports future sustainability.

San Francisco Food Systems > San Francisco
Project Name: Salad – Raising the Bar
Key Goal: Use a youth development approach to engage the students in developing social marketing materials and nutrition education promotions for Balboa High School’s salad bars and the general consumption of fruits and vegetables.  The intention is to empower the students so they can design materials and activities promoting eating fruits and vegetables that will influence their peers. Produce two promotional activities at Balboa to reinforce the message.

San Francisco Sheriff’s Department - Women’s Re-entry Program > San Francisco
Project Name: Beginning with Balance
Key Goal: Provide a series of seven-4 week nutrition education classes for women in the Re-entry Program, derived from USDA approved curriculum including African American Campaign and Latino Campaigns and Harvest of the Month.  This program will address nutrition topics such as Meal Planning and Shopping using SNAP benefits; Healthy Breakfasts on a limited budget, and maintaining good nutrition.

Southwest YMCA > San Jose
Project Name: Nutrition in YMCA Afterschool
Key Goal: Nutrition in YMCA Afterschool Lead all the children at Leroy Anderson Elementary Afterschool Program each week in nutrition education activities, cooking/food preparation demonstrations, and demonstrations of fun physical activities they can do with their families.  The children will journal their activity and food choices to track and compare their progress over the school year with the goal of increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables they eat and physical activity they do and decreasing the amount of junk food they eat.  Three times a year, host Family Nutrition Nights, where after school program participants, their families and their school day teachers can come together to learn healthy recipes and nutrition facts, learn about the availability of food stamps and the importance of regular physical activity in a fun, culturally competent atmosphere.

Weigh of Life > Richmond
Project Name: Tools for Health
Key Goal: Educate parents and youth about healthy eating to maintain a healthy weight through increased fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity.  Conduct nutrition mini-classes at the Richmond Flea Market, North Richmond Center for Health, Nevin Community Center and Lincoln School.

2009 Mini-Grant Recipients
Congratulations to the new BANPAC mini grant recipients!  We look forward to working with you. And thanks to the many others who applied.  We were thrilled to see how many great applications there were: you made our work hard for us!

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County Educational Services > San Jose
Project Name: Healthy Eating in West San Jose
Key Goal: Educational Services Healthy Eating in West San Jose provide a series of nutrition workshops for children and their parents, using the Network Toolbox curriculum for adults and UC Cooperative Extension curriculum for children.  Every class will include a period of physical activity, using salsa-aerobics.  The seventh week of classes will be a “Trainer of Trainers” style salsa demonstration to empower parents to teach the benefits of physical activity to their community.  The workshops will be offered in Spanish to children who attend Sherman Oaks and Luther Burbank Elementary Schools and their parents.

Contra Costa County Employment and Human Services Department Community Services Bureau > Concord
Project Name: Cooking Healthy Every Way (CHEW)
Key Goal: The Cooking Healthy Every Way (CHEW) project includes cooking demonstration classes for Head Start and Early Head Start parents.  CSB will utilize the Network Toolbox curriculum, which will be used in conjunction with the cooking demonstration classes.

Children’s Council of San Francisco > San Francisco
Project Name: Gardens to Grow
Key Goal: In collaboration with the non-profit Farms to Grow, conduct nutrition education and cooking classes for the children at a child care center in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco.  Includes garden-based nutrition education, Harvest of the Month, cooking classes and taste tests over the course of a school year.  Collaborate with a local farmer from the East Bay to come and do two presentations/nutrition education for the children in their classrooms.

East Bay Community Recovery Project (EBCRP) > Oakland
Project Name: Nutritional Education Program
Key Goal: This project will serve clients in an Outpatient and Residential substance use program for pregnant and parenting women.  Providing weekly nutrition classes using the Network Toolbox.  Will also provide nutrition education to very young children using UC Cooperative Extension curricula.

Go Kids, Inc. > San Jose
Project Name: GONA Promotes Activity
Key Goal: Will train 5-10 promotoras/es to lead nutrition and physical activity sessions in the Great Oaks Neighborhood of San Jose using the Network for a Healthy California--Latino Campaign Nutrition and Physical Activity Toolbox.  The programs are centered at the Great Oaks Neighborhood Center at Stipe School.

LifeLong Medical Care LEO Eats > Oakland
Project Name: Lifelong East Oakland Nutrition Program
Key Goal: A series of ten nutrition education classes at the clinic, using the Network Toolbox curriculum.  The clinic also serves as a food distribution site, distributing fresh produce to clients.

2008 Mini-Grant Recipients
Congratulations to the new BANPAC mini grant recipients! We look forward to working with you. And thanks to the many others who applied. We were thrilled to see how many great applications there were: you made our work hard for us!

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.