If your company or organization wants to help kids live healthier, happier lives, you’ve come to the right place. We believe health is a human right and all kids deserve equal access to proper nutrition, opportunities for physical activity, and schools that fully support their health and well-being.
Our partners have had a tremendous impact on the work we do. Check out these examples of how we’ve worked together.
Unique School Spaces Offer Joy, Freedom, and Health to Students and Community
Whitaker Elementary School is truly a space that benefits everyone thanks to parent and community input, volunteering, and work that helped build a "Be Hive" to transform students' social emotional health.
Transforming Student Outcomes at Brays Oaks
The dedicated Fitness & Nutrition Teacher at YES Prep Brays Oaks is transforming students' lives by advocating for health initiatives and introducing new equipment and resources thanks to a Game On grant.
Not Kidding Around: Goat Yoga Comes to Metro Nashville Public Schools
Weekly nutrition lessons (including a visit from a local farmer and her chicken) and regular goat yoga sessions have encouraged Madison Middle School students to adopt healthy habits...with the help of some fuzzy friends.
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CHICAGO – Action for Healthy Kids will convene over 300 school leaders, educators, parents, caregivers and stakeholders for the 2022 National Conference on Child Health
On this National Child Health Day, Action for Healthy Kids and Dole announce a new partnership to promote healthy eating for kids and families, both at home and at school.
Walmart Foundation’s commitment to building up communities by creating a more sustainable food system has helped our partner schools expand access to school breakfast for tens of thousands of students through school breakfast grants since 2011.
Cargill provides funding for school grants to improve nutrition and education for kids in communities where they operate.
Since 2013, CSX has provided grant funding for hundreds of schools across the country to improve physical activity and nutrition initiatives, as well as support for school health teams nationwide and our Urban School Wellness Coalition. The company’s emphasis on employee health and wellness has led to the transformation of school health environments through dozens of employee volunteer service events.
Kaiser Permanente (blurb: since 2020, Kaiser Permanente and Thriving Schools have convened the National Healthy Schools Collaborative (NHSC) in pursuit of a 10-year roadmap for healthy schools. Action for Healthy Kids is an active member of the collaborative and leader on family engagement in kids’ health.),
Since 2009, Kellogg Company and the Kellogg Company Fund have been instrumental in helping Action for Healthy Kids expand school breakfast to tens of thousands of students across the country. Through grant funding of breakfast as well as physical activity/nutrition grants, promotional activities, and employee engagement, Kellogg helps us fight hunger and feed potential.
Action for Healthy Kids partnered with The Paso del Norte Institute for Healthy Living at UTEP, with funding from the Healthy Eating Active Living initiative of the Paso del Norte Health Foundation, to launch the El Paso Healthy Schools Coalition in 2018. The coalition is made up of community members, organizations, and school district staff from across the county with a focus on School Health Advisory Council development and training, school nutrition, recess, and safe routes to schools.
Saputo puts the promotion of healthy lifestyle habits at the core of their community engagement, funding school grants in specific states to improve physical activity and nutrition since 2016.
Costco support AFHK’s Family-School Partnership model in underserved communities to help kids eat healthier, be more active, and make responsible decisions about their health.
Glico is partnering with AFHK to support the Family-School Partnership model in Los Angeles Unified School District to ensure kids are food secure and active, develop interpersonal and coping skills to handle today’s stressors, and can make responsible decisions about their own health.
The John Hancock Foundation has partnered with AFHK to expand our partnership with Boston Public Schools (BPS) and implement AFHK’s Family-School Partnership Model to increase equitable access to nature through outdoor physical activity and play.
Nike has supported Active Schools since it’s inception and recognizes the critical role we play in leading the movement to keep kids active.
FoodMinds, a division of Padilla and a leader in food and nutrition marketing and communications, is proud to provide strategic counsel and communications support to Action for Healthy Kids.
JPMorgan Chase’s Force for Good is a social innovation program that connects JPMorgan Chase employees with technical, data or strategy skills with hundreds of nonprofits around the world to empower them to leverage technology to advance their missions. Force for Good is working with AFHK to show the connection between our work and real-world health and education outcomes for kids.