Funded Projects - Physical Health

This portfolio includes the Endowment's Healthy Weight Initiative, which encourages healthy eating and physical activity by funding new projects in school, community, neighborhood and practitioner settings in Wake County. The Physical Health Portfolio also includes projects that provide vision screening, dental health services, diabetes management and specialist services for children and youth diagnosed with disease or disabilities.

* indicates a closed grant

  • Active Communities and Neighborhoods

    (administered by the Physical Activity and Nutrition Branch, N.C. Division of Public Health and the N.C. Public Health Foundation)
    Implement programs dedicated to increasing physical activity in community settings for children, youth and their families in five local communities.

  • Auditory Verbal Training*

    Auditory Learning Center
    Catch up the deaf child who is behind academically. Prevent at-risk deaf children from being removed from mainstream classroom.

  • Breastfeeding support in Wake County with a focus on child care: decreasing obesity, increasing health

    UNC The Carolina Breastfeeding Institute
    The purpose of this project is to improve maternal and child health outcomes in Wake County through increased breastfeeding duration and exclusivity by capitalizing on licensed child care centers as facilitators of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding to at least one year.

  • Dental Health Promotion*

    Wake County Human Services
    Decrease tooth decay and untreated disease in children entering kindergarten and increase oral health education and prevention among families of high risk pre-school children in homes and in pre-school settings.

  • Dental Outreach and Access Program*

    Wake County Human Services
    Provide uninsured children with access to dental care in private offices of participating dentists and expand dental screenings to all Title 1 second grade students and additional low-income kindergarten children.

  • Healthy Athletes Program*

    Special Olympics North Carolina
    Increase access to care and improve physical well-being of youth with intellectual disabilities.

  • Healthy, Active Families Initiative - Creativity in Motion

    Marbles Kids Museum
    Create a permanent outdoor "natural learning" space with exhibits and events that promote healthy food choices and promote fitness and nutritional programs for children and their parents.

  • Pediatric Diabetes Program - Phase I*

    WakeMed
    Target low-income patients to provide outpatient and inpatient diabetes case management coordinated by a registered nurse/certified diabetic educator who will work with other nurses and dieticians, physician offices and the public schools.

  • Pediatric Diabetes Program - Phase II*

    WakeMed
    Enhance interventions for children with pre-diabetes and diabetes with direct physician care services. Expand the Pediatric Diabetes Program education/exercise program for at-risk children. Develop quality research data to measure impact and support advocacy.

  • Pediatric Diabetes Program - Phase III

    WakeMed
    Ensure continuity of outpatient and inpatient diabetes case management, physician care services and education/exercise program for low-income patients with pre-diabetes and diabetes. Conduct community-based research on effectiveness of interventions.