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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.
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