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Congratulations to the 10 winners!
Each of the 10 winners listed below receives a $2,500 Good for You! Grant to help them expand their healthy living program in their community.
| NAME | STATE | TITLE | PROJECT DESCRIPTION | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lizzie M | GA | Tasty Tidbits: Educating Today for a Healthier Tomorrow | An outstanding 7 year old who has already created her own series of cooking shows wishes to teach children of all ages healthy nutrition and cooking strategies via hospitals and other community venues. |
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| Tyler B | VA | Rappahannock Country Fitness Trail | This plan involves the construction of a circuit fitness trail at the Rappahannock County Park in Washington, Virginia. It's a small town with very few options for fitness. The trail will consist of six fitness stations, each with a sign which explains how to conduct the exercise properly. | |
| Theresa Y | NJ | Get Moving/Get Healthy with Food and Fitness Ambassadors | This project takes a teens teaching youth approach to spreading the word about healthy lifestyles. Through the use of the NJ 4-H Get Moving/Get Healthy program, teens in a local high school will be trained to teach fun, hands-on lessons that focus healthy lifestyles. These teens will then go into 4th grade classrooms in elementary schools to teach these lessons to students. | |
| Jacqueline R | CA | Everybody Dance Now | A 16 year old developed a program offering free dance classes to underprivileged youth. She gives those who couldn’t otherwise afford it, the chance to exercise, set goals, and have fun. | |
| Sandie W | PA | Healthy Eating Program for Lady Bearcat Basketball | This passionate varsity basketball coach wishes to provide inner-city school-age athletes with nutritious food to give them energy to get through their busy schedules. Many of her students are minorities living below the poverty line being raised by a single parent. With out her assistance they may have nothing more to eat than a bag of chips. | |
| Bryan D | TX | Start Caring Wellness, Inc | Start Caring Wellness 5 week fitness camp will provide a safe, fun and non-competitive environment for adults and youth to learn through teamwork and total commitment that everyone can adopt a healthy life-style for a fit future and a fit family. | |
| Devin C | TN | The Party Veggies | Devin created a colorful engaging performance (including outstanding vegetable costumes!) for school age children about healthy living and nutrition and is looking to expand its audience base. | |
| Sarah K | IL | Healthy Kids, Healthy Planet | This program will use lessons on topics such as, You Are What You Eat, Journey of Your Food, Growing Your Food, while simultaneously building an interactive garden. Project has an excellent evaluation system in place and is looking to expand to other venues. | |
| Christine D | PA | Fun with Fitness and Freggies | This energetic Girl Scout troop wishes to produce vibrant DVD presentations including exercise routines and nutrition tips to younger girlscout troops and other school age children. | |
| Kathryn K | KS | User Friendly Weight Room | The project aims to create an exercise room and hire trainers for those not on sports teams. Many think that fitness is only for talented athletes. This program will open the door to a healthy lifestyle for all students. | |
Congratulation to all
Congratulation to all winners. You're the best.
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GREETINGS.CONGRATULATION TO ALL!
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I think it's just great to see companies giving back to the community like this.
Well-done! Great projects
Well-done! Great projects for such tender age. My congratulation to all of them.
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Congratulation to all food and fitness winners!
Congratulation
Congratulations to all winners.
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Congrats!
Congratulations!!!
Really glad for all the winners. And GREAT projects. You are doing good job.
MY CONGRATULATION
I am very glad for winners... We with you
to my great chefs, players and fitness specialists!
Hats off to the projects that you have done. First congrats to you! Many thanks to Del Monte for bringing their talents out!It would be great and very nice if Del Monte organizes more programs in the future to encourage youth and kids to participate in such programs
Happen to read a few project descriptions here. Really interesting. Liked the plan regarding the construction of a circuit fitness trail at the Rappahannock County Park in Virginia
CONGRATULATION
GREETINGS.CONGRATULATION TO ALL OF THE WINNERS.A LOT OF BEST WISHES TO THEM FOR THEIR GREAT IDEAS.YOUR WINNIG HAS PROVED GOOD WORKS ALWAYS WIN.ALL THE BEST.MAY GOD FULFIL ALL OF YOUR DREAMS FOR HUMANITY,THEN THE POOR ,HELPLESS PEOPLE LIKE OUR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES LIKE BANGLADESH,INDIA,PAKISTAN WILL BE LIGHTEN BY YOU.GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU.WARM REGARDS.
Congratulation to all food and fitness winners!
I think it's just great to see companies giving back to the community like this. Thanks a lot to Del Monte for helping healthy projects. You help the community and yourself at the same time!
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