Do Something Good for You! Project Ideas

Your grant should start with a great idea that does something about healthy living in your community. So try asking yourself these questions:

• Do your friends eat junk food all day without a care in the world?
• Does your community lack good physical fitness options?
• Do you want to create healthier lives in your school and community?
• Then Do Something about it!

Sample Project Ideas

Check out these ideas to get you started...

1. Create an after-school cooking club — make tasty but healthy recipes and share the yummy results with your friends and family!
2. Adopt a trail. Gather your classmates or even brothers, sisters, mom and dad to clean a local trail — identify biking, hiking, or walking trails that need debris or brush clean-up.
3. Start a program to educate elementary and middle school kids about the importance of eating fruits, vegetables, lean protein and whole grains and getting daily exercise.
4. Build a dog park. Can you or your friends build an outdoor space where pets and pet parents can get active together?
5. Campaign for healthier lunch options in your school cafeteria.
6. Plant a community garden.
7. Mobilize a group to volunteer at a local animal shelter — by taking the shelter animals for their daily walk, you and your friends can give back while meeting your daily 30-minute fitness requirement.
8. Create a family night program at your house. With your parents, choose one or more days a week when you and everyone in the family can prepare and eat a healthy meal together. Share your recipe for success with your friends and classmates!
9. Pioneer a healthy eating awareness campaign at your school.
10. Start a non-competitive walking, running, or hiking club at your school.
11. Introduce a pet therapy program at a local nursing home to boost peoples’ moods and increase social interaction.
12. Create a dog-walking club in your neighborhood to ensure that all the pets and pet parents get plenty of exercise’
13. Volunteer to coach a youth sports teams and mentor them on the right way to eat healthy for youth athletes.

Now Apply for a Del Monte Do Something Good For You! Grant