Canfit Nonprofit

12/11/2015

Our fiscal year ends on Thursday, December 31 and we are still $25,000 short on our funding for 2016. Support from friends like you will help us bridge the gap and ensure that we can continue to provide successful programs as we start the New Year.

I hope you will consider making a special tax-deductible contribution at this time to help us reach out fundraising goals. A gift of any amount will make a real difference.

Thanks to a generous anonymous donor, every $1 you donate to CANFIT will be matched. This means you can help us fund academic scholarships, start a career pipeline for young people interested in food and fitness, provide trainings to community groups, and advocate for policy changes to improve the food and fitness environments of low-income communities across the country.

Your gift of $50 can become $100, providing supplies for a healthy snacks and meals class for an after school program.

Your gift of $250 can become $500, providing an undergraduate scholarship to a nutrition, culinary, or physical education student.

These are just two examples of how you can help us make a real difference in the lives of adolescents and the communities that support them. To learn more about our work, see http://www.canfit.org. Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity to double the impact of your support.

You can mail your check made payable to CANFIT/Tides Center (2140 Shattuck Ave., Suite 1110, Berkeley, CA 94704) to make a secure donation online: health.https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/canfit.

Together, we can make healthy eating and physical activity the norm in our communities and fulfill our mission to change community environments so that they support good.

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12/10/2015

Introducing our 2015-16 Scholarship Recipients!

Since 1994, CANFIT has awarded undergraduate and graduate scholarships to California African-American, American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian American, Pacific Islander or Latino/Hispanic students expressing financial need to study nutrition, public health, physical education or culinary arts in the state of California. We congratulate this year's recipients!

Check out more about CANFIT's scholarship program: http://canfit.org/scholarships/

The next round of scholarship applications are due March 31st.

12/02/2015

Our latest newsletter's out!

Featuring our 2015-16 Scholarship Recipients, last year's accomplishments, a save the date for the National Farm to Cafeteria Conference, and news of Marion Nestle's new book Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda - and Winning

http://p0.vresp.com/O3VPUL

11/30/2015

During this time of thanksgiving, as we reflect back on our work, we would like thank all of our partners, donors, and colleagues that worked with us this year, and share with you some of our successes for 2015.

http://canfit.org/blog/canfit2015

Farm to Afterschool – CANFIT’s Farm to Out of School Time brief was adopted as a “best practice” in the policy guidance document issued by the California Nutrition Education-Obesity Prevention (NE-OP) Program.

08/04/2015

The latest on the blog - U.S. Department of Agriculture: Step up food quality for youth!

http://canfit.org/blog/usdastepitup

Tina Namian, Branch Chief Policy and Program Development Branch, Child Nutrition Programs Food and Nutrition Service, Department of Agriculture Post Office Box 66874 St. Louis, Missouri 63166

03/27/2015

From the Health Education Council: "Dr. Baca talks with Ms. Arnell [Hinkle]."

Dr. Baca talks with Ms. Arnelle of Canfit Nonprofit.

02/24/2015

What're we up to in 2015? Check out our latest priorities in policy and thought leadership.

- Child and Adult Care Food Program – The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released Proposed Healthier Meal Standards for Federal Food Programs serving Child Care and Afterschool Programs. Duedate: April 15th). CANFIT will poll our network and provide comments on the new proposed regulations for…

01/29/2015

What we were up to last year in 2014? Check out the latest blog http://tinyurl.com/canfit2014 and consider donating towards our work improving food and fitness environments with communities of color: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/CANFIT

12/01/2014

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Learn more about CANFIT, a national nonprofit that helps bridge the gap between communities and policymakers. Since 1993, CANFIT has been at the heart of the movement…

09/15/2014

Looking to serve up healthy snacks this school year? Check out CANFIT's Healthy Snack guide (Spanish and English), revised earlier this year: http://canfit.org/downloads/

Photo: W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food & Fitness Youth Gathering 2009. Youth leaders making salsa.