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Voices for Healthy Kids Grant Opportunities Now Available

Voices Training
January 18, 2018

The American Heart Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are working to create a culture of health through Voices for Healthy Kids. Through this collaboration, and in working with a team of experts across the healthy eating and active living movement, the initiative aims to engage, organize, and mobilize people to help all children grow up at a healthy weight.

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1ee0eef4842199fd5a64195f6d4415f5_400x400.jpegVoices for Healthy Kids will advance coordinated state, local, and tribal public policy issue advocacy campaigns focused on healthy eating and active living, and will utilize the American Heart Association's proven advocacy capacity to drive meaningful and widespread policy change. 

The goal of the grant opportunities within this initiative is to make effective strategic investments in ongoing state, local, and tribal public policy issue campaigns in order to increase public policy impact on healthy weight and living among children.

Voices for Healthy Kids is focusing efforts in schools, community, and early care and education/out-of-school time. All grants awarded within these opportunities will be 100% non-lobbying funding. Applications should support one of the targeted Voices for Healthy Kids Policy Lever and be submitted by the deadline of February 9, 2018 - 5 PM PST .

Pre-Application Webinar Recordings

To assist potential applicants in preparing an Open RFA, Supplemental or Incubator applications the following recorded webinars are posted online. 

Application and Submission: Review the funding opportunities, eligibility requirements, online grant management system and application requirements.

Model Campaign Planning Tool: This recording reviews the Model Campaign Planning tool (required for Open RFA/Supplemental Applications).

Building Health Equity into your Campaign Plan: This recorded session discusses the integration of Health Equity into your campaign plan.

School health, early care and education & out-of-school-time policy overview: This recorded webinar focuses on the policy bottom lines for proposals in the areas of the school health (physical activity/physical education, junk food marketing, wellness, ESSA, school food, and water); early care and education and out-of-school-time policy levers.

Open RFA Opportunity

Strategic Campaign Funds Open RFA opportunity aims to fund strategic issue advocacy campaigns focused on helping kids grow up at a healthy weight through state, local, and tribal public policy campaigns. Applications must be specific to an individual campaign for public policy change in one state, local or tribal geographic location. Voices for Healthy Kids is allocating grants up to $125,000 per award for a period of up to one year with potential renewal. Open RFA applicants may also include in their application, campaign plan, budget (up to $125,000), and an Incubator Subgrantee. 

The goal of including an Incubator Subgrantee is to engage partners and strategies in your campaign that will further the policy efforts, particularly by empowered engagement of priority populations most impacted by childhood obesity. 

Incubator Opportunity

Voices for Healthy Kids has made a commitment to ensure that we reach those population most adversely affected by childhood obesity and has integrated a broad-based health equity approach throughout the design of our initiative. Incubator opportunities should identify additional partners and strategies through the empowered engagement of populations that are in the greatest need for helping all children achieve a healthy weight. Voices for Healthy Kids is allocating $30,000 funding per award for a period of up to one year. 

Additionally, we are now offering the opportunity to include an Incubator Subgrantee within the Open RFA application to engage health equity partners in the campaign from the start. 

Voices for Healthy Kids does not fund: 

  • curricula development
  • policy implementation
  • equipment
  • operations of physical activity, nutrition or similar participant based program capital expenditures
  • academic research or other non-advocacy purposes

Online Grant Management System

Voices for Healthy Kids grant information and applications are now online.  All applications will be submitted in this system and registration is required.  Please follow these simple steps to register:

  1. Visit https://voicesforhealthykids.fluxx.io and in the lower right hand side of the webpage, click the create account now button.
  2. Complete the eligibility quiz.
  3. If your organization is eligible you will then need to complete a registration form for your organization and individual information. 
  4. Once submitted, your registration will be reviewed and approved within 2 business days.  

We appreciate your support in sharing this opportunity with eligible organizations working on state or local advocacy campaigns. Together, we can ensure that children have access to healthy food and physical activity where they live, learn, and play. If you have any questions, please visit our Grant Opportunities website or feel free to Shannon Melluzzo.