Student Voices for Healthy Choices

This project engages students who often have the highest health risk factors and gives them ownership over their own health and influences their school climate and health culture. Student Wellness Teams (SWT) consisting of fifth-to twelfth-grade students will...

Evaluation and Capacity Building for Community Engagement

Through this project, Fair Food Network will engage an external consultant to help develop and implement this effort, which will provide accountability/integrity to their work of program evaluation to move their programs to a community-driven model.

Step Up Saginaw: Physical Activity & Nutrition Education

In 2007, the Saginaw County Health Department (SCHD), as a part of a coalition called Step Up Saginaw(SUS), spearheaded a county effort to improve the health of the citizens of Saginaw County. SUS main objectives were to increase physical activity in the community and...

Community Building for a Healthier Flint & Genesee County

The lack of pedestrian supportive infrastructure has led to an overwhelming majority of residents to noteFlint’s streets as a major concern associated with barriers to physical activity and limited access to healthy foods. This proposal seeks to refocus these...

Eat My ABCs: Integrate healthy eating into school readiness

Building on a successful award by the Health Fund in 2020, Michigan State University (MSU) will expand their evidence-based 14-week “Eat My ABCs” curriculum to promote lifelong healthy habits in children. In Phase I, MSU targeted Head Start teachers to provide the...

Building a Network of Turned Outward Organizations

The United Way of Southwest Michigan is seeking support for a collaborative effort to grow the network of organizations in the area that utilize the Harwood Approach (an engagement model that centers on community voice for creating change in communities), build...

Stoudamire Wellness Hub

Eastside Community Network (ECN) will increase capacity of the Stoudamire Wellness Hub to assist residents in Southeast Detroit overcome structural barriers to increase their health and wellbeing. The Stoudamire Wellness Hub was established within a former health care...

Addressing ACEs: Engaging Flint BIPOC Leaders as Ambassadors

The Crim Fitness Foundation is requesting funding to reduce health inequities in Flint by increasing support and leadership opportunities for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) community members to receive training on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)...

North Central Network: Expanding Capacity for Collaboration

The North Central Community Health Innovation Region (NCCHIR) will contract with a consultant to provide technical assistance and training to improve implementation of the Collective Impact model. The NCCHIR was established to work to address social and economic needs...

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