[Dialogue] FW: Kellogg Foundation Awards $4.5 Million to Foster Healthy Communities

[Norm and Judy Lindblad]

It is indeed!  We attend a church in Tucson with a number of members of the
tribe...or nation in their words... and the service regularly includes a
prayer in Tohono O'odham.  Their deep spirit understandings and wisdom are
tremendous assets in these times. It is wonderful to hear that resources are
being invested to foster health in their rural desert communities.

They are also building an amazing Museum and Cultural Center outside Sells
with $15million from their gaming revenues.

Judy Lindblad

On 4/25/07, Sunny Walker <sunwalker at comcast.net> wrote:
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>  Hope you can change my email access and get this report through. Note the
> last line. I believe this is the Tribe that was in Pisinimo.
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> *From:* PND News Alerts [mailto:PND_News at foundationcenter.org]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:57 AM
> *To:* sunwalker at igc.org
> *Subject:* Kellogg Foundation Awards $4.5 Million to Foster Healthy
> Communities
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>   *Kellogg Foundation Awards $4.5 Million to Foster Healthy Communities*
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> The *W.K. Kellogg Foundation* <http://www.wkkf.org/> in Battle Creek,
> Michigan, has announced $4.5 million in grants to nine community groups
> across the country working to encourage active living and healthy eating
> locally.
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> The community groups, representing collaborations between schools,
> hospitals and public health agencies, nonprofits, businesses, churches, and
> recreational facilities, will each receive a two-year, $500,000 award to
> create an action plan to improve health, nutrition, and physical activity
> among local families and children. Projects will focus on increasing
> physical activity in schools and safety in public spaces; creating community
> gardens and markets for affordable local and regionally grown foods; and
> creating more pathways for walkers and bicyclists. Several projects will
> specifically address the needs of African American, Hispanic, Native
> American, Asian American, and Pacific Islander populations. After the
> planning process has been completed, each group will be eligible for
> implementation funding for up to eight years.
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> The projects receiving funding are the Boston Collaborative, the Detroit
> Food and Fitness Collaborative, the Holyoke Collaborative in Massachusetts,
> the New York City-based Partnership for Increasing Access to Healthy Food
> and Physical Activity for Children and Families, the Northeast Iowa Food and
> Fitness Initiative, the Oakland Food and Fitness Community Collaborative in
> California, the Philadelphia Food and Fitness Alliance, the Seattle-based
> King County Food and Fitness Initiative, and the Tohono O'odham Food,
> Fitness, and Wellness Initiative in Sells, Arizona.
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