FEDERAL FUNDING FOR NUTRITION, PE EDUCATION AND SCHOOL WELLNESS PROGRAMS:

Department of Health and Human Services:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Steps to a Healthier US Grants: 5-year Steps Cooperative Agreement Program, allocates funding to states, cities and tribal entities to implement chronic disease prevention efforts focused on reducing the burden of diabetes, obesity and asthma and addressing three related risk behaviors—physical inactivity, poor nutrition and tobacco use. http://www.healthierus.gov/steps/

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

National Health Promotion: To engage national membership organizations from various sectors as a means of expanding and coordinating health promotion efforts. To promote the development, implementation and coordination of programs that promote good health habits and programs that are designed to prevent disease and disability. These objectives are consistent with the General Authorities set forth in Sections 1701(a) and 301 of the Public Health Service Act. http://www.healthypeople.gov/

Administration for Children and Families:

Community Services Block Grant Formula Discretionary Awards Community Food and Nutrition Programs (formula grants; direct payments for specified use): To provide for community-based, local, statewide and national programs which: (1) Coordinate existing private and public food assistance resources to better serve low-income populations, whenever such coordination is determined to be inadequate; (2) assist low-income communities to identify potential sponsors of child nutrition programs and initiate new programs in underserved or unserved areas; and (3) develop innovative approaches at the State and local level to meet the nutritional needs of low-income individuals. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ocs/

Department of Education:

Office of Safe and Drug-free Schools

Carol M. White Physical Education Program (discretionary grants): made to local educational agencies and community-based organizations to initiate, expand, or improve physical education programs, including after-school programs, for students in one or more grades from kindergarten through 12th grade in order to help students make progress toward meeting state standards for physical education. http://www.ed.gov/programs/whitephysed/applicant.html

Department of Agriculture:

Food and Nutrition Service:

State Administrative Expenses for Child Nutrition (formula grants): To provide each State agency with funds for its administrative expenses in supervising and giving technical assistance to local schools, school districts and institutions in their conduct of Child Nutrition Programs. State agencies that administer the distribution of USDA donated commodities to schools or child or adult care institutions are also provided with State administrative expense funds (SAE). http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/default.htm
Team Nutrition Grants (project grants): Team Nutrition Training Grants for Healthy School Meals have been identified in USDA's national Strategic Plan for Training and Technical Assistance as one of the anchor delivery systems for supporting the implementation of USDA's nutrition requirements and the Dietary Guideline for Americans in school meals. Team Nutrition's (TN) goal is to improve children's lifelong eating and physical activity habits by using the principles of the dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Food Guide Pyramid. TN Training Grants offer funding to state agencies to establish or enhance sustainable infrastructures for implementing TN using three behavior-focused strategies: 1) provide training and technical assistance to child nutrition food service professionals to enable them to prepare and serve nutritious meals that appeal to students; 2) promote nutrition curriculum and education in schools through multiple communication channels (i.e., food services initiatives, classroom activities, school wide events, home activities, community programs and events, and media events and coverage) to reinforce positive nutrition messages and encourage students to make healthy food physical activity choices as part of a healthy lifestyle; 3) build school and community support for creating healthy school environments that are conducive to healthy eating and physical activity. http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Grants/2006app.html
Child Nutrition Discretionary Grants (project grants): National School Lunch Program (NSLP) http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/lunch/: To assist States, through cash grants and food donations, in making the school lunch program available to school children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities. School Breakfast Program (SBP) http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/breakfast/: To assist States in providing a nutritious nonprofit breakfast service for school children, through cash grants and food donations. Special Milk Program (SMP) http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/milk/: To provide subsidies to schools and institutions to encourage the consumption of fluid milk by children. Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/care/: To assist States, through grants-in-aid and other means, to initiate and maintain nonprofit food service programs for children, elderly or impaired adults in nonresidential day care facilities and children in emergency shelters. Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/summer/: To assist States, through grants-in-aid and other means, to conduct nonprofit food service programs for low-income children during the summer months and at other approved times, when schools are out of session or are closed for vacation.

Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (project grants): To assist States, through cash grants, in providing free fresh fruits and vegetables to school children in designated participating schools beginning in school year 2004/2005. For Fiscal Years 2005 through 2009, $9 million is available for allocation to States each year. http://www.fns.usda.gov/fdd/programs/dod/