National PTA® and the Healthy Weight Commitment
Foundation (HWCF) have expanded their partnership to bring Smart from the
Start, an early childhood health education grant program, to PTAs across the
country.
Through the Smart from the Start program,
National PTA will award 10 Smart from the Start: Community Outreach grants of
$10,000 each to district, council and regional PTAs to focus on a specific
neighborhood community in which to improve access to healthy foods and safe
physical activity options for young families. Applications for the grants
will be available beginning in January 2014 at PTA.org. The deadline to
submit applications is March 28, 2014.
In addition to the community outreach grants, 25
Smart from the Start: Pre-K grants of $2,000 also will be awarded to PTAs in
2014 to implement the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation’s Energy Balance
Pre-K curriculum. This grant application will be available in Spring 2014.
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