Healthy Kids Bright Futures Initiative
Grants Awarded 2004 - 2015$823,539
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Carleton SchoolCarneys Point, NJ
This is another grant for a “Breakfast after the Bell” program. This one is in Carleton School. The Foundation’s goal is to help provide this valuable program to all schools in Salem County.
$5,000 -
Catholic Charities
To increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables and other healthier options for families receiving emergency food. Tailored nutrition education to S.C. families receiving emergency food.
$50,000 -
Center for Supportive Schools
To expand the reach of Teen Prevention Education Program (Teen PEP), an evidence-based and high school-based program that uses peer education to increase responsible decision-making among students around issues of sexual health to middle school students.
$50,000 -
Family Health Initiatives
Family Health Initiatives will assist the Foundation with oversight, monitoring, and collecting community feedback regarding the initiatives through the creation of an Advisory Board. They will provide support, information and feedback on grantee progress and promote Foundation projects within the community.
$24,000 -
Family Health InitiativesSalem County, NJ
Family Health Initiatives will assist the Foundation with oversight, monitoring, and collecting community feedback regarding the initiatives through the creation of an Advisory Board. They will provide support, information and feedback on grantee progress and promote Foundation projects within the community.
$64,215 -
Food Bank of South Jersey
Healthy Baking for Teens courses will be conducted in the spring of 2014 at Salem High School and Healthy Cooking for Families classes held at the Salem Family Success Center.
$4,300 -
Food Bank of South JerseySalem City, NJ
Cooking Matters for Teens is a second year of classes to be conducted in the spring of 2015 at Salem High School.The FBSJ will also offer Community Nutrition Outreach Training for Teens. This training prepares teens to conduct nutrition-related outreach programs in their school and communities, such as healthy cooking and healthy baking demonstrations. By training teens to offer nutrition education, they will be able to reach more Salem teens and increase the sustainability of the program.
$7,500 -
Food Trust
The second grant to The Food Trust for “Building Capacity to Improve Nutrition and Obesity in Salem County” program.
$50,000 -
Quinton Township SchoolsQuinton, NJ
This grant will enable Quinton Township Schools to provide a “Breakfast after the Bell” program, which helps to overcome some of the barriers that prevent children getting a much needed healthy breakfast.
$5,000 -
Robins’ Nest, Inc.
Robins’ Nest will provide the Project Aim curriculum in a series of during-school groups for Penns Grove/Carneys Point middle school children on healthy sexuality, positive relationships and positive self-image.
$50,000 -
Rutgers Cooperative ExtentionSalem County, NJ
Partnering with the Salem Health and Wellness Foundation, Rutgers Cooperative Extension/Family and Community Health Department will hire a Family and Community Health Sciences Program Coordinator for Salem County. This is a five year partnership to assist SHWF with it’s Healthy Kid’s Bright Futures Initiative.
$275,000 -
Rutgers University Foundation
Grow Healthy School Initiative – work with Department of Agriculture to provide opportunities for nutrition education as well as fun interactive physical education in several S. C. schools.
$50,000 -
Salem County Health Department
The S.C. Health Dept. in conjunction with the Salem County Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention & Health Education Partnership (SCAPE), will work in the community to raise awareness about parent child communication around human sexuality and pregnancy prevention, using a teen produced video contest that will be used in dynamic and interactive workships for parents.
$50,000 -
Salem High School
Salem High School Youth Based Services will provide primarilary female students opportunities for increased exercise and healthy eating education in the Get Up and Move Program.
$28,750 -
The Food TrustSalem County, NJ
This grant is to build on The Food Trust’s existing work with Salem Health & Wellness Foundation’s Healthy Kids Bright Futures initiative by introducing an Early Childhood Nutrition Education initiative in 3 to 5 sites around Salem County. This work will use the Food Trust’s existing farm to preschool toolkit, The Preschool Initiative: Building a Healthy Foundation for Life as a vehicle for introducing physical activity and nutrition education into early childhood classrooms. This is a two year program.
$100,000 -
YMCA of Salem County
Healthy U Program – this will expand the Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) program into Quinton Township Elementary School.
$9,774
Grants Awarded in 2013$366,824
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Catholic Charities
To increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables and other healthier options for families receiving emergency food. Tailored nutrition education to S.C. families receiving emergency food.
$50,000 -
Center for Supportive Schools
To expand the reach of Teen Prevention Education Program (Teen PEP), an evidence-based and high school-based program that uses peer education to increase responsible decision-making among students around issues of sexual health to middle school students.
$50,000 -
Family Health Initiatives
Family Health Initiatives will assist the Foundation with oversight, monitoring, and collecting community feedback regarding the initiatives through the creation of an Advisory Board. They will provide support, information and feedback on grantee progress and promote Foundation projects within the community.
$24,000 -
Food Bank of South Jersey
Healthy Baking for Teens courses will be conducted in the spring of 2014 at Salem High School and Healthy Cooking for Families classes held at the Salem Family Success Center.
$4,300 -
Food Trust
The second grant to The Food Trust for “Building Capacity to Improve Nutrition and Obesity in Salem County” program.
$50,000 -
Robins’ Nest, Inc.
Robins’ Nest will provide the Project Aim curriculum in a series of during-school groups for Penns Grove/Carneys Point middle school children on healthy sexuality, positive relationships and positive self-image.
$50,000 -
Rutgers University Foundation
Grow Healthy School Initiative – work with Department of Agriculture to provide opportunities for nutrition education as well as fun interactive physical education in several S. C. schools.
$50,000 -
Salem County Health Department
The S.C. Health Dept. in conjunction with the Salem County Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention & Health Education Partnership (SCAPE), will work in the community to raise awareness about parent child communication around human sexuality and pregnancy prevention, using a teen produced video contest that will be used in dynamic and interactive workships for parents.
$50,000 -
Salem High School
Salem High School Youth Based Services will provide primarilary female students opportunities for increased exercise and healthy eating education in the Get Up and Move Program.
$28,750 -
YMCA of Salem County
Healthy U Program – this will expand the Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) program into Quinton Township Elementary School.
$9,774
Grants Awarded in 2014$456,715
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Carleton SchoolCarneys Point, NJ
This is another grant for a “Breakfast after the Bell” program. This one is in Carleton School. The Foundation’s goal is to help provide this valuable program to all schools in Salem County.
$5,000 -
Family Health InitiativesSalem County, NJ
Family Health Initiatives will assist the Foundation with oversight, monitoring, and collecting community feedback regarding the initiatives through the creation of an Advisory Board. They will provide support, information and feedback on grantee progress and promote Foundation projects within the community.
$64,215 -
Food Bank of South JerseySalem City, NJ
Cooking Matters for Teens is a second year of classes to be conducted in the spring of 2015 at Salem High School.The FBSJ will also offer Community Nutrition Outreach Training for Teens. This training prepares teens to conduct nutrition-related outreach programs in their school and communities, such as healthy cooking and healthy baking demonstrations. By training teens to offer nutrition education, they will be able to reach more Salem teens and increase the sustainability of the program.
$7,500 -
Quinton Township SchoolsQuinton, NJ
This grant will enable Quinton Township Schools to provide a “Breakfast after the Bell” program, which helps to overcome some of the barriers that prevent children getting a much needed healthy breakfast.
$5,000 -
Rutgers Cooperative ExtentionSalem County, NJ
Partnering with the Salem Health and Wellness Foundation, Rutgers Cooperative Extension/Family and Community Health Department will hire a Family and Community Health Sciences Program Coordinator for Salem County. This is a five year partnership to assist SHWF with it’s Healthy Kid’s Bright Futures Initiative.
$275,000 -
The Food TrustSalem County, NJ
This grant is to build on The Food Trust’s existing work with Salem Health & Wellness Foundation’s Healthy Kids Bright Futures initiative by introducing an Early Childhood Nutrition Education initiative in 3 to 5 sites around Salem County. This work will use the Food Trust’s existing farm to preschool toolkit, The Preschool Initiative: Building a Healthy Foundation for Life as a vehicle for introducing physical activity and nutrition education into early childhood classrooms. This is a two year program.
$100,000