ProjectsMini-Grant Info / Q&AMini-Grant Recipients      
 
Present Activities/Projects
To achieve our goals, BANPAC has created three committees that meet regularly and direct many activities. These include:
 
  • 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.
Committee Work Plans
BANPAC members have developed work plans for their committees through a series of meetings. While these work plans are subject to change based on new needs in the community, they are used to guide the committees through their work. The work plans include:
 
How Can You Learn More and/or Join?
BANPAC welcomes your input, ideas and involvement.  Please contact Susan Karlins, MPH at susan.karlins@phd.sccgov.org if you are interested in joining.

Mini-Grant Information - 2012 Information > updated 03.21.11
One (1) electronic application must be received by April 29, 2011.

2012 Mini-Grant Overview and Attachments A - E: PDF Version, Word Version
Attachment F: PDF Version, Word Version
Attachment G
Attachment H
(To type in the WORD docs: right click on the flier, select "Save Target As", and save to your desktop.)

FY 2012 Mini-Grant Questions and Answers > updated 04.14.11
E-mail your questions to Susan Karlins by April 14, 2011.  Answers to be posted by April 25, 2011.

Q. We operate a food pantry that delivers food to homes.  Can the BANPAC mini-grant process provide funding to support this work?
A. No, food delivery is not an eligible activity.
Q. We would like to include Zumba in our proposal-can we pay for 5 community members to be trained in Zumba?
A. These grants cannot pay for participant class fees or ongoing physical activity classes.  The grant could pay for a one-time demonstration or train-the-trainer session.
Q. The schools we want to work all have over 50% FRFM but there’s another Network program at some of the sites, according to Attachment H.  Can we work there?
A. Some of the schools overlap with Network programs so if your application becomes a finalist we’ll have to ensure that your services and classroom locations don’t overlap with existing programs.
Q. Our location houses a food pantry, can we apply?
A. Yes, food pantries are eligible locations.

Mini-Grant Recipients

 2011 Mini-Grant Recipients | 2010 Mini-Grant Recipients
2009 Mini-Grant Recipients | 2008 Mini-Grant Recipients | 2007 Mini-Grant Recipients

2011 Mini-Grant Recipients > posted 3.15.11
Congratulations to the 2011 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!



America SCORES (Bay Area SCORES) > San Francisco
Project Name: The Kickin’ Kitchen
Key Goal: To inspire 240 low-income families of children playing soccer through the America Scores program at Cesar Chavez Elementary to eat the USDA recommended amount of fruits and vegetables, to consume fewer sweetened beverages, and to engage in daily physical activity.  The program will operate during at least 18 of Scores weekly “Community Saturday” events at soccer tournaments and use nutrition lessons from the Fruit, Vegetable and Physical Activity Online Guide Toolbox for Community Educators, HOTM Parent Newsletter, and Sugar Savvy curriculum with parents/guardians during half-hour periods of the tournaments while they are not watching their children at play.



East Bay Asian Youth Center > Oakland
Project Name: Garden-based Nutrition Education Project
Key Goal: The Garden Nutrition Project will provide a at least 10 garden-based nutrition education lessons in a total of 40 class sessions at Bella Vista, Franklin and Garfield elementary schools in Oakland.  The project aims to increase knowledge and consumption of fruits and vegetables by students, using the Network-approved Botany on Your Plate curriculum.  In addition, the project will increase at least 40 teachers’ nutrition education skills through teaching use of Botany of Your Plate at school garden committee meetings.



Fresh Approach > San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties
Project Name: Operation Frontline in Santa Clara & San Mateo Counties
Key Goal: To increase consumption of fruits and vegetables and increase skills for healthy meal preparation utilizing the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables among 150 low-income residents of Santa Clara and San Mateo county through ten sessions of the recently Network-approved curriculum Operation Frontline at ASPIRE East Palo Alto Charter School, McKinley Elementary School, the Olinder Community Center, and at East Palo Alto Head Start, where it will add a new nutrition education component for families.



Girls Inc. > San Leandro
Project Name: Nutrition Education for McKinley Elementary School Community
Key Goal: To educate the McKinley Elementary School Community about nutrition and promote increased consumption of fruits and vegetables in two class sessions, using lessons from the Children’s Power Play toolkit (4th and 5th grades) and Team Nutrition (K-3rd grades) and the Sugar Savvy curriculum.  Parent education via newsletters from Team Nutrition and Harvest of the Month will support the in-class lessons.  Classroom teachers will be present during the classes and receive printed materials to support the lessons.



SF Bay Area [Boy Scouts] Council - Learning for Life, Fruitvale > Oakland
Project Name: Fruitvale Elementary Healthy Futures Project
Key Goal: The program will teach students about the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables and increase produce consumption, using the Empowering Youth with Nutrition and Physical Activity curriculum for 4th and 5th grade students in the afterschool program at Fruitvale elementary school and taste testing of fruits and vegetables in conjunction with helping to grow produce in the school garden.  The program will take place at weekly hour-long sessions for 20 weeks.  These students will reinforce their new knowledge of nutrition education by presenting what they have learned and presenting to another 125 students who participate in the afterschool program as well as 50-75 family members.



SF Bay Area [Boy Scouts] Council > Oakland
Project Name: Maxwell Park Elementary Healthy Futures Program
Key Goal: Key Goal: The Healthy Futures Program will utilize the Empowering Youth with Nutrition and Physical Activity curriculum in at least 12 interactive weekly nutrition education sessions to provide nutrition education and increase consumption of produce by 150 youth at the school site garden.  In addition, 25 parent volunteers will be trained in nutrition using HOTM parent newsletters and exposure to tasting fruits and vegetables at the school site garden. Utilizing HOTM and Network Toolbox lessons, 40 community members will participate in free monthly workshops from January through June 2011 to learn strategies to increase fruit and vegetable consumption, prepare healthy meals, make favorite meals healthier, and the benefits of a home garden to increase fitness levels and fruit and vegetable consumption.



Ujimaa Foundation > Oakland
Project Name: Sweet on the Inside! Eating Healthy Makes me feel Alive
Key Goal: To provide nutrition education to children who participate in UASP at Burckhalter Elementary School via at least 20 weekly sessions that include activities from The Children’s Power Play! Community Youth Organization Tool Kit, Kids Get Cookin’, and Harvest of the Month curriculum materials.  Parents and staff will be invited to at least three Family Night sessions to learn from their children how to make healthy snacks that include fruits and vegetables.  During one of those Family Nights, the parents will learn from presentations of Network African American Toolbox modules.

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.

2007 Mini-Grant Recipients
Congratulations to our 2006-07 mini-grant recipients. They will receive funds up to $5000 to accomplish activities that meet BANPAC's mission and goals. Many thanks to those who submitted applications. There were so many excellent proposals that we were sorry we couldn't fund them all.



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.

 

 
 

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