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Updates for the
week of January 30, 2006
Steps to a Healthier WA News and Upcoming Activities
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Grant and Funding Opportunities
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Champions for Healthy Kids Program Offers Grants to
Improve Kids' Fitness and Nutrition Habits
Deadline: February 1, 2006, RFP Link:
http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/5002197/generalmills
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The Environmental
Protection Agency invites you to apply for the National
Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management,
online at
http://www.asthmaawards.info.
Applications
are being accepted until February 1, 2006.
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New Voices: Community New Ventures
Deadline: February 8, 2006
The Institute for Interactive Journalism (J-Lab) invites
U.S. nonprofit groups and education organizations to apply
for funding to launch new community news ventures and to
cooperate with J-Lab in spotlighting best practices and
lessons learned. Each project may receive as much as
$17,000.
For more information, go to:
http://www.j-newvoices.org
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NEW: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces New
Initiative to Promote Healthy Eating Among Children
Deadline: March 7, 2006
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (
http://www.rwjf.org/ ) has launched
Healthy Eating Research (http://www.healthyeatingresearch.org/
), a five-year, $16 million program to
evaluate changes in policies and environments that can
promote healthy eating among children.
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Starbucks Foundation: Literacy programs that address 21st
Century learning
Deadlines: March 1 and September 1, 2006
The Starbucks Foundation funds programs for youth ages 6-18
that integrate literacy with personal and civic action in
the communities where they live. The Starbucks Foundation
invites letters of inquiry from qualifying 501(c) 3
organizations that work with underserved youth in the fields
of literacy (reading, writing, and creative/media arts) and
environmental literacy. Grants range from $5,000-$20,000.
For more information, go to:
http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/grantinfo.asp.
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Learn and Serve America Community-Based Grant
Program.
Due Date: 3/7/2006 Match Requirement
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Women's Health Funding Opportunities:
http://www.naccho.org/topics/fundingguide/fundingmap.cfm |
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Conferences or
Training
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Satellite and internet
broadcast, UNC Minority Health Conference:
8th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture,
"Collaborative Research with Communities: Value Added and
Challenges Faced"
February 24 (Friday), 2-3:30 p.m. EST
The William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Speaker: Professor Meredith Minkler, Dr.P.H., UC
Berkeley SPH professor of health and social behavior. The
complex nature of many minority health problems and the
failure of much traditional research to acknowledge the
strengths of communities of color as potential partners in
research have lead to growing excitement over a new paradigm
that stresses action-oriented research with, rather than on,
minority communities. This keynote presentation will use
case studies to illustrate the value added for communities
and health researchers by community-based participatory
research approaches. Core principles of such collaborative
research will be illustrated, as will the ways in which this
approach builds community capacity, focuses research
questions on health issues that matter to minority
communities, improves cultural sensitivity in all phases of
the research process, and helps translate findings into
action to help eliminate health disparities.
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80th Annual American School
Health Association Conference
The American School Health Association invites submissions
for our 80th Annual American School Health Association
Conference. October 11 - 14, 2006 Millennium Hotel, St.
Louis, Missouri, Application deadline: February 10, 2006. The 2006 ASHA
conference theme is Healthy Bodies, Health Minds: The Mental
Health Connection.
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You are invited to the 2nd Northwest Healthy Foods Expo,
February 8, 2006
Are you responsible for buying or choosing foods for
Schools, Childcare Centers, Colleges, Universities,
Hospitals, Company/organization worksites, or other places
that serve food? Are you looking for healthy choices
for food and vending services that are nutritious, available
in single-serve portions, within your budget, and great
tasting? The Healthy Foods Expo brings together food
buyers that want to provide healthy foods for their
customers with food suppliers that produce and sell healthy
foods.
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The Washington State Collaborative
introduces strategies to help healthcare professionals
improve the quality of care for patients with chronic
conditions, in particular diabetes and those at risk for
cardiovascular disease. Collaborative 5, which begins in
February 2006, will offer separate tracks for teams that
would like to focus on prevention strategies for
cardiovascular disease or diabetes management.
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Washington State Diabetes Network Second
Annual Meeting
Save the Date – March 14, 2006 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Tukwila Area
More than 1.4 million people in Washington have either
diabetes or pre-diabetes. In order to prevent this costly,
disabling disease and improve the health and longevity of
those living with diabetes, nothing less than the
coordinated effort of everyone working on diabetes
prevention and control throughout the state is required.
Join the Washington State Diabetes Network at its second
annual meeting to enhance the work of diabetes prevention
and control on March 14, 2006.
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International Congress on Physical
Activity and Public Health
April 17-20, 2006.
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Save the
Date: 6th Annual Summer Evaluation Institute at CDC,
June 12-14, 2006
at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta, GA. The
Institute welcomes staff at
all
levels--Federal, state, local, and community--who do or use
program evaluation. This year's
Institute is being co-sponsored with the American Evaluation
Association (AEA) and we anticipate a larger and more
diverse crowd of participants and offerings than ever. As
in the past, the Institute's three days of training will
include both longer skill-building sessions and small,
interactive sessions with national faculty. our
Institute web site www.evaluationinstitute.org
with information on
agenda, course selection,
and lodging information.
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CDC's 2006 National Health Promotion
Conference
Join local, state and national public health leaders,
businesses, communities, researchers,
policymakers, communicators, and other professionals to
discuss new directions in health promotion.
Together, we will lay the foundation for a national public
health agenda that is focused on the
broadest concepts of health promotion and wellness delivery.
The conference tracks include Nontraditional Partnerships;
Innovative Approaches to Public Health Practice; Translating
Science and Evaluating Results; Health Policy and
Communications; Implementing Best Practices at the Local
Level; and Emerging Issues and Hot Topics in Public Health.
Hilton Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, September 12-14, 2006
Visit
www.cdc.gov/cochp for
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