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 2010 Mini-Grant Overview
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2009 Mini-Grant Recipients
Congratulations to the new BANPAC mini grant recipients!  We look forward to working with you. And thanks to the many others who applied.  We were thrilled to see how many great applications there were: you made our work hard for us!

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County Educational Services > San Jose
Project Name: Healthy Eating in West San Jose
Key Goal: Educational Services Healthy Eating in West San Jose provide a series of nutrition workshops for children and their parents, using the Network Toolbox curriculum for adults and UC Cooperative Extension curriculum for children.  Every class will include a period of physical activity, using salsa-aerobics.  The seventh week of classes will be a “Trainer of Trainers” style salsa demonstration to empower parents to teach the benefits of physical activity to their community.  The workshops will be offered in Spanish to children who attend Sherman Oaks and Luther Burbank Elementary Schools and their parents.

Contra Costa County Employment and Human Services Department Community Services Bureau > Concord
Project Name: Cooking Healthy Every Way (CHEW)
Key Goal: The Cooking Healthy Every Way (CHEW) project includes cooking demonstration classes for Head Start and Early Head Start parents.  CSB will utilize the Network Toolbox curriculum, which will be used in conjunction with the cooking demonstration classes.

Children’s Council of San Francisco > San Francisco
Project Name: Gardens to Grow
Key Goal: In collaboration with the non-profit Farms to Grow, conduct nutrition education and cooking classes for the children at a child care center in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco.  Includes garden-based nutrition education, Harvest of the Month, cooking classes and taste tests over the course of a school year.  Collaborate with a local farmer from the East Bay to come and do two presentations/nutrition education for the children in their classrooms.

East Bay Community Recovery Project (EBCRP) > Oakland
Project Name: Nutritional Education Program
Key Goal: This project will serve clients in an Outpatient and Residential substance use program for pregnant and parenting women.  Providing weekly nutrition classes using the Network Toolbox.  Will also provide nutrition education to very young children using UC Cooperative Extension curricula.



Go Kids, Inc. > San Jose
Project Name: GONA Promotes Activity
Key Goal: Will train 5-10 promotoras/es to lead nutrition and physical activity sessions in the Great Oaks Neighborhood of San Jose using the Network for a Healthy California--Latino Campaign Nutrition and Physical Activity Toolbox.  The programs are centered at the Great Oaks Neighborhood Center at Stipe School.

LifeLong Medical Care LEO Eats > Oakland
Project Name: Lifelong East Oakland Nutrition Program
Key Goal: A series of ten nutrition education classes at the clinic, using the Network Toolbox curriculum.  The clinic also serves as a food distribution site, distributing fresh produce to clients.

2008 Mini-Grant Recipients
Congratulations to the new BANPAC mini grant recipients! We look forward to working with you. And thanks to the many others who applied. We were thrilled to see how many great applications there were: you made our work hard for us!

Centro Latino de San Francisco > San Francisco
Project name: Seniors Walking for Health: Across the Golden Gate Bridge!
Key Goal: Centro Latino de San Francisco will host a walk across the Golden Gate Bridge for Latino seniors this summer.  To help the seniors prepare, they will provide a series of nutrition education classes with physical activity demonstrations.  Seniors will learn to eat and hydrate for activity, and learn correct walking technique and stretches.

Emergency Shelter Program, Inc. > Hayward
Project name: ESP Nutrition & Fitness Awareness
Key goal: As part of its services to women and their children, ESP will provide nutrition and fitness information, training and education to children and their mothers in the homeless shelter and in the preschool setting.

Girls Incorporated of Alameda County > San Leandro
Project name: WOW! Program (Watch out World)
Key Goal: Girls Inc. will provide structured nutrition, fitness and literacy activities after school through the Bridges program and coordination with the regional PowerPlay! Program.

Oakland Food Connection > Oakland
Project name: Food Fitness and Nutrition at EC Reems Academy
Key Goal: OFC will provide after school nutrition education, including cooking with garden produce, PA demonstrations, and empowering youth to make changes.  Students will also help plan two daytime workshops for teachers and parents, thus developing their leadership skills.



People’s Grocery > Oakland
Project name: People’s Grub Parties
Key Goal: People’s Grocery will integrate and expand the Peer-2-Peer Education Program and Be Healthy campaign through the formation of 8 monthly People’s Grub Parties, consisting of cooking demonstrations, food tastings and nutrition education workshops.  These will also serve as outreach for the 8 sessions of free 6-week nutrition and cooking classes.  Additionally, youth will videotape the nutrition education events and distribute DVD’s as part of a follow-up packet to qualifying residents participating in workshops.

Ravenswood Family Health Center > East Palo Alto
Project Name: City on the Move
Key Goal: Create a DVD and resource guide from footage and information captured by local youth highlighting healthy shopping, gardening, and cooking activities in East Palo Alto.  Twelve local organizations will utilize this DVD to promote healthy eating and exercise to their constituents.

Youth Leadership Institute > San Rafael
Project name: Student Nutrition Advisory Council - Pickelweed Community Center
Key Goal: YLI will form a Student Nutrition Advisory Council to receive nutrition workshops and empower students to work with the San Rafael Parks Department to provide healthy vending machine foods.   Students will provide taste tests and participate in cooking demonstrations.

2007 Mini-Grant Recipients
 Congratulations to our 2006-07 mini-grant recipients. They will receive funds up to $5000 to accomplish activities that meet BANPAC's mission and goals. Many thanks to those who submitted applications. There were so many excellent proposals that we were sorry we couldn't fund them all.



Project Ole > San Francisco
Project name: Green & Lean.
Key Goal: Provide garden-based nutrition education to 200 students through bilingual weekly instruction in the existing school garden.

Carecen > San Francisco
Project name: Help Me Help You!
Key goal: Train 5 youth health promoters to be able to instruct qualifying elementary-aged students on the benefits of fruit and vegetable intake and regular physical activity.

The Health Trust > San Jose
Project name: Neil A. Christie Living Center Nutrition Education Event.
Key Goal: Host a community nutrition education event providing general nutrition education and physical activity promotion for chronic disease prevention in the HIV-positive population

East Oakland Boxing Association > Oakland
Project name: Smartmoves Program.
Key Goal: Expand current program to provide nutrition and physical activity promotion information to youth. Youth will develop a local resource guide of nutrition education and physical activity programs serving themselves and their families. In addition, provide parent-focused nutrition education workshops.



San Jose State University Foundation > San Jose
Project name: Senior Nutrition & Wellness Fair.
Key Goal: Provide nutrition education and physical activity promotion for Asian seniors by conducting a community education event that provides information on fruit and vegetable intake, cooking skills and daily physical activity.

Sports4Kids > Oakland
Project name: PowerPlay!4Kids.
Key Goal: Work with PowerPlay! Coordinator to incorporate nutrition education tailored for 9-11 year olds into an existing play-based physical activity after school curriculum.

Alameda County Office of Education > Hayward
Project name: Rock La Fleche Health & Nutrition Service Learning Program.
Key Goal: Use service-learning model to help students become peer educators engaged in nutrition education through creating a nutrition education video for local low-income and minority target populations. Student preparatory nutrition education will include general nutrition education and taste testing.

Mini-Grant Questions and Answers (updated 10.23.08)
 
Q. Although the location of my organization does not fit with the criteria, the majority of the patients that we serve come from surrounding census tracts (which fit the project criteria). What would be the rules regarding that aspect of my eligibility?
A. You would have to prove that each individual served came from those census tracks by their addresses.  Or, you could conduct your program within an eligible census tract.
Q. Can we include incentives for participants to buy food at our local farmers market?
A. No, food can not be purchased as an incentive so it would be unallowable as a food incentive but a food taste testing could work.
Q. My proposed program is at a school site.  How do I know if it qualifies for the BANPAC Mini-Grant process?
A.
  • Visit dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/
    Item 1 has you select a “Level” – use the drop-down menu to select if you want data on an individual school or entire district, county etc.
    Item 2 has you select a “Subject” - select 'Create Your Own Report'—at the bottom of the drop-down list.
  • Click “Submit”
  • On the next page:
    Item 1 has you select the most recent school year (2007-2008)
    For Item 2, you type the name of the school or district into the box and click “Submit”
  • On the next page you'll want to select Free or Reduced Priced Meals near the top under “Socio-economic Indicators”
  • Click “Submit”

A report will show the percentage of FRPM for the school you selected; it should be 50% or above to qualify for the BANPAC Mini-Grant process.
Q. I did not send Attachment C by October 13th.  Can I still apply for a BANPAC Mini-Grant?
A. Yes, Attachment C was developed to assist applicants wondering whether or not their intended site qualified as USDA eligible.  Applicants may continue to send them in until the grant application is due.
Q. Who can apply?
A. All organizations, including schools, serving low-income communities in Alameda, Marin, Contra Costa, San Francisco, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.  Please download the three application forms from the BANPAC Website at www.banpac.org.
Q. How do you define low-income?
A. At least 50% of your population served should earn no more than 185% of the Federal Poverty Level.  Or, if you serve schools, at least 50% of the students at that school should receive free-or-reduced-price school lunches.  Please see the application for more details.  This must be documented!!  Please see the overview for documentation information.
Q. What kind of projects will BANPAC fund?
A. BANPAC must follow USDA guidelines for funding; please see the USDA allowable and unallowable list (on the BANPAC Website) for details.  In general, BANPAC can fund a)  projects that provide direct nutrition education for low-income communities, b)  projects that provide information about physical activity as long as that is part of a nutrition education project, c)  projects that help mobilize communities to become active in improving access to healthy foods and physical activity, as long as that is linked to nutrition education.  For example:  a series of classes on nutrition education may include information about improving physical activity, and may teach participants how to become active in local politics to influence improving local parks for more physical activity.  Or, a map delineating ways to walk to local fruit and vegetable outlets can be used as part of a nutrition education project.

 

  
 

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