Regional Grants

Our approach:

The Aetna Foundation’s Regional Grants fund community wellness initiatives that serve those who are most at risk for poor health -- low-income, underserved or minority populations. A healthy diet and regular exercise can help prevent obesity and many chronic conditions. That's why we focus on efforts that promote eating fresh fruits and vegetables and being active.

Grants will target communities where healthy food can be difficult to buy, and where social and environmental factors may limit people’s ability to be physically active.

Regional Grants are defined as:

• Work that is important for one or more of our priority cities and states
• Projects that impact the local community

Our 2013 Regional Grants will focus on:

• Healthy food choices - Programs that provide nutrition education and help increase the availability of affordable fresh fruits and vegetables in underserved communities
• Healthy activity - Programs that provide opportunities for physical activity in underserved communities
  

Types of projects we seek to support include:

• School-based or after-school nutrition and fitness programs that help children learn healthy habits at an early age
• Community-based nutrition education programs for children and families
• Efforts to increase the availability or affordability of fresh fruits and vegetables in communities
• Community gardening and urban farming activities for children and families

Applications that focus on healthy food choices and physical activity through a racial and ethnic health equity lens will receive priority consideration.

Funding limits:

We will consider proposals seeking $25,000 - $40,000.

Where we fund:

We concentrate our regional grant making in the following states, with particular emphasis on the cities noted below.  We encourage proposals for programs that serve multiple locations.

• Arizona (Phoenix)
• California (Los Angeles, San Diego, Fresno, San Francisco)
• Connecticut
• Florida (Miami, Tampa)
• Georgia (Atlanta)
• Illinois (Chicago)
• Maine
• New Jersey
• New York (New York City)
• North Carolina (Charlotte)
• Ohio (Cleveland, Columbus)
• Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pittsburgh)
• Tennessee (Nashville, Memphis)
• Texas (Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio)
• Washington, D.C. (D.C., Baltimore, Md., Northern Virginia)
• Washington State

Learn more about our Regional Grants Application Guidelines and Review Process

See our General Funding Guidelines

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