Deadline: 8-Oct-21
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas (BCBSKS) Foundation’s Healthy Habits for Life Program is now open to help schools fund healthy initiatives for students in kindergarten through grade 12.
The Healthy Habits for Life program to assist schools in promoting healthy lifestyle choices to their K-12 students.
School nurses, physical education teachers, principals, health or family and consumer science teachers, or other administrators are encouraged to apply for funding that they may use during 2022.
The Foundation recognizes that schools have a unique opportunity to teach students about healthy habits through curriculum and programs that reach them where they spend so much of their time: school.
As a young, captive audience, students can be more easily influenced to develop life-long healthy habits and behaviors. The Foundation hopes that curbing childhood obesity now will translate into healthy adults later, saving health care dollars for all Kansans.
Focus Areas
The Foundation is seeking programs that will help Kansas youth:
- Reduce their cardiovascular risk,
- Increase their physical activity, or
- Learn healthy eating habits
Funding Information
- A total of $150,000 is being offered in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation service area, which includes all Kansas counties except Johnson and Wyandotte.
- The maximum grant amount is $ 1,000 and grants are limited to one per school. School personnel are encouraged to collaborate on a program for their school. Funds cannot be used for salary or wages of any staff or employee; all funds must directly benefit the needs of the program for students.
- The funds will be distributed by Dec. 20 and can be used for programs administered during the 2022 calendar year.
- Past grant recipients are eligible to apply again but must adequately explain how an additional grant would allow them to either expand their existing program or create a new one.
Criteria
The application process is easy and proposed programs do not need to be elaborate. Simple programs have been shown to have huge impacts.
- Schools must be located in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation service area, which includes all Kansas counties except Johnson and Wyandotte.
- Past grant recipients are eligible to apply again but must adequately explain how an additional grant would allow them to either expand their existing program or create a new one.
- Grant applications are limited to the application form. Do not attach additional pages.
- Grant applications must be signed by the school’s principal; applications must be received by: Please choose one method to submit your application.
For more information, visit https://www.bcbsks.com/foundation/healthy-habits-for-life