Balancing InTake and Expenditure (BITE)

REQUEST FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING MINI-GRANT APPLICATIONS
Applications due: April 1, 2009 (5:00 p.m. CST)
Late applications will not be accepted


The Oklahoma Fit Kids Coalition (OFKC) announces the availability of $3,000 mini-grants for community coalition to plan and implement community based physical activity and nutrition (PAN) programs to improve the quality of life and reduce the risk of overweight and obesity in communities. Approximately $15,000 is available to fund approximately five $3,000 grants to community organizations that have successfully demonstrated their capacity to plan, implement and report progress on a community-based PAN project.

The Oklahoma Fit Kids Coalition seeks to stimulate program planning, implementation, reporting, and evaluation of PAN related activities to reduce community risk for overweight and obesity. The project will test the effectiveness of online project management software designed specifically for community PAN programs. Successful community applicant organizations must:
a) be a government public health agency or a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
b) demonstrate with letters of support that they have recruited at least eight community partner organizations and/or community leaders to participate in their community overweight/obesity prevention coalition
c) agree to be randomized to one of two research conditions. Half of the communities will be asked to use the BITE software and half will use their usual planning and project management tools.

Awards will be made for a project period of 13 months beginning July 1, 2009 and ending July 31, 2010. Applicants will be notified of award decisions by May 1, 2009.


Click on the link below to see the full Request for Proposal.


BITE Community Mini-Grant Request for Proposal

BITE Grant RFP Press Release


Contact the Oklahoma Fit Kids Coalition office at (405) 236-5437, ext. 113 or via email, Attn: Ameyka Pittman, apittman@oica.org.