• Jackson Elementary
• Fields Elementary
• Instructional & Guidance Center

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http://www.captainplanetfdn.org/appProcess.html

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/08/AR2006020802228.html

After School Programs Curb Obesity, Increase Peer Acceptance Home

After school Program Participation and the Development of Child Obesity and Peer Acceptance, by Joseph L. Mahoney and Heather Lord of Yale University’s psychology department with assistance from Erica Carryl of New York University’s applied psychology department, provides evidence that after school programs play an important role in combating child obesity.

The longitudinal study of 439 children, predominantly Hispanic or African American and living in poverty, found that children who became involved in after school programs were significantly less likely to be obese at follow-up than non-participants. Furthermore, all children participating in the after school programs showed significant increases in peer acceptance over time.

© Copyright 2005. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~jlm79/Mahoney.Lord.Carryl.2005b.pdf

3-A-Day of Dairy Nutrition Education Grants Home

America’s low calcium intake is recognized as a major public health problem. To address his concern, the National Dairy Council will award grants in the amount of $5,000 each at a state/regional basis to organizations/individuals proposing innovative, community-based nutrition education programs aimed at empowering kids to become advocates for healthy eating, including three servings of dairy a day.

Projects must include specific educational/behavioral objectives targeting children (ages 9-18, or a subgroup within this range) with measurable results that have the potential to be replicated and be implemented within the school environment (i.e., public school, private school, after-school program, etc.) during the 2006-2007 school year.

Grants are open to all groups or individuals in the U.S., including those self-employed, commissioned by or employed by organizations of local government, state and local health departments, regional and state agencies and schools, medical facilities and extension specialists.

Applications must be postmarked by March 31, 2006.

© 2005 National Dairy Council®
http://www.nationaldairycouncil.org/NationalDairyCouncil/Health/ThreeADay/grant

Student/Newspaper Partnership Grant Program Home

The Newspaper Association of Foundation’s Student/Newspaper Partnership Grant Program provides support to student newspapers that are in danger of closing or have stopped publishing.

Up to 20 grants for up to $2,500 will be awarded to provide seed money to help establish or revive student newspapers. Grants will be awarded to schools that present proposals to create a newspaper where none exists, or stabilize and strengthen newspapers that are at risk of going under. (Grants can be used to cover newspaper production and distribution costs, and to train the adviser and staff members.)

High school and junior high school teachers and administrators and representatives from newspapers or universities may apply.

The deadline is April 30, 2006.

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http://www.naafoundation.org/upload/prtnrshpsgrntwnnrs06.pdf

Nickelodeon Announces Giveaway Program to Encourage Healthy Play Home

Children’s television network Nickelodeon will distribute more than $1 million from September 2005 to June 2006. The “Let’s Just Play” Giveaway offers kids around the United States the opportunity to take action and enter for a chance to improve their school or community program’s fitness resources.

Maximum Award: $5,000

Eligible Applicants: Kids (6-15 years of age), partnering with teachers and other community-based leaders.

Deadline: rolling, until 05/31/06

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http://www.nick.com/all_nick/everything_nick/ljp_home.jhtml

MetLife Foundation Bridge Builders Grant Home

MetLife Foundation Bridge Builders Grant Program and The National Association of Secondary School Principals is inviting proposals from public middle level and high schools serving large numbers of low-income students and/or underrepresented minorities (40% or more of the student body) to apply for a grant to implement a special initiative aimed at building better relationships among adults and students.

Maximum Award: $5,000

Eligibility: Middle level and high school principals in public schools serving large numbers of low income and/or large numbers of minority students (more than 40% of the student body) in the United States.

Deadline: 4/17/2006

© 2006 National Association of Secondary School Principals
http://www.principals.org/s_nassp/sec.asp?CID=568&DID=48228

Foundation and Corporation Opportunities Home

March 1

• Teachers’ Insurance Plan Teacher of the Year

• Starbucks Foundation Grants

• Partnership for a Nation of Learners: Community Collaboration Grant

• Starbucks Foundation

• Freida J. Riley Teacher Award

• Tony Hawk Foundation (public skate parks)

March 4

• Horace Mann Abraham Lincoln Fellowship

March 5

• Dollar General Community Grant

March 7

• Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity

March 15

• Libri Foundation (limited geographic scope)

• Kagan Summer Academy Scholarship

March 17

• Hope Venture Grants (hurricane victims)

March 22

• ThinkQuest (preliminary entry submission deadline)

March 31

• 2006 Mantis Award Program

• Partners in Excellence/Partners in Arts Education

• Captain Planet Foundation

April 1

• Kids Growing with Dutch Bulbs Program

• Outstanding Social Studies Teacher of the Year Awards

• Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation Children’s Initiative

April 6

• Melinda Gray Ardia Environmental Foundation

April 7

• GoGirlGo! Ambassador Awards Program

• Mattel/Mattel Children’s Foundation

• NASD Investor Education Foundation Grant Program

April 14

• Playwright Discovery Award for Students