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Article: Children from New Mexico to New York Learn How to Eat Healthy and Stay Fit with the General Mills Champions for Healthy Kids Program.
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- Business Wire
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- June 19, 2006
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Fifty community-based organizations and schools across the U.S. have received grants totaling $500,000 to support innovative programs that equip children with the tools they need to live healthy, balanced and active lives.
The Champions for Healthy Kids grants program is a partnership of the General Mills Foundation, the American Dietetic Association Foundation and the President's Challenge. Since 2002, the program has invested more than $8 million in youth nutrition and fitness programs that have served over 150,000 children across the country.
Each of this year's 50 nonprofit groups, schools or government organizations will receive a ...