Funded Projects - Physical Health

This portfolio includes the Endowment's Healthy Weight Initiative, which encourages healthy eating and physical activity by funding new projects in school, community, neighborhood and practitioner settings in Wake County. The Physical Health Portfolio also includes projects that provide vision screening, dental health services, diabetes management and specialist services for children and youth diagnosed with disease or disabilities.

* indicates a closed grant

  • Active Communities and Neighborhoods

    (administered by the Physical Activity and Nutrition Branch, N.C. Division of Public Health and the N.C. Public Health Foundation)
    Implement programs dedicated to increasing physical activity in community settings for children, youth and their families in five local communities.

  • Auditory Verbal Training*

    Auditory Learning Center
    Catch up the deaf child who is behind academically. Prevent at-risk deaf children from being removed from mainstream classroom.

  • Be Healthy, Be Active

    Marbles Kids Museum
    The purpose of Be Healthy, Be Active core content initiative is to change attitudes—and thereby, behavior—by exposing families to healthy lifestyle choices through hands-on, interactive play environments and programs.

  • Breastfeeding support in Wake County with a focus on child care: decreasing obesity, increasing health

    UNC The Carolina Breastfeeding Institute
    The purpose of this project is to improve maternal and child health outcomes in Wake County through increased breastfeeding duration and exclusivity by capitalizing on licensed child care centers as facilitators of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding to at least one year.

  • Community Assessment and Plan for Injury Prevention: Child Trafficking

    The Salvation Army of Wake County
    Assess all aspects of what is happening in our community and create a plan of action for improved policies and environments to prevent injuries from human trafficking within Wake County’s youth population.

  • Community Enhancement Grants

    NC Public Health Foundation and Division of Public Health Physical Activity and Nutrition Branch
    The project is intended to increase the capacity of community organizations to implement sustainable physical activity and healthy eating opportunities for underserved children and youth in Wake County.

  • Dental Health Promotion*

    Wake County Human Services
    Decrease tooth decay and untreated disease in children entering kindergarten and increase oral health education and prevention among families of high risk pre-school children in homes and in pre-school settings.

  • Dental Outreach and Access Program*

    Wake County Human Services
    Provide uninsured children with access to dental care in private offices of participating dentists and expand dental screenings to all Title 1 second grade students and additional low-income kindergarten children.

  • Empowering Healthy Food Choices

    Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
    The purpose is to build on two existing programs to respond to an increasing demand for healthy foods by improving access to fresh fruits and vegetables for underserved communities and helping them learn to value and utilize these foods.

  • Healthy Athletes Program*

    Special Olympics North Carolina
    Increase access to care and improve physical well-being of youth with intellectual disabilities.