Healthy Living Mini-Grant Awardees
Congratulations to past awardees. Click on the organizations’ names to learn about their projects and get ideas for your projects!
Active Living (Physical Activity)
Austin Achieve Public Schools (AAPS)
Project Name: Austin Achieve Let’s Get Moving!
Purchasing new indoor and outdoor play equipment to complement their physical education curriculum to promote healthy habits early in the development of their scholars
Foundation Communities
Project Name: Foundation Communities Running Buddies and Relays at the Trails Program
Supporting youth’s physical activity through running partners and mentors throughout a five-week Running Buddies program
Ortega Elementary AISD
Project Name: Superstars Getting Healthy – Physically & Mentally
Creation of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) resources and manipulatives for classroom kits and a Mindfulness Room accessible for all students, teachers, and staff to help reduce stress and anxiety
Breastfeeding Support
Street Youth Ministry of Austin
Project Name: Healthy Nutrition for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Homeless Mothers
Provide nutrition and successful breast feeding education for street dependent youth (18-26 years of age)
Community Gardens
Linder Elementary AISD
Project Name: Healthy Bites
Growing their vegetable garden to focus on outdoor education, which provides hands-on science and social-and-emotional learning experiences for students along with their cooking classes
Mainspring Schools
Project Name: Mainspring Schools Innovative Community Garden
Creating a innovative container, vertical, and sensory garden project that is accessible, transportable, and budget-friendly for herbs and greens that the school can include in its nutrition and education programs
Healthy Eating
allgo
Project Name: Queering the Kitchen
Reducing food insecurity faced by LGBTQIA2S+ communities of color and encouraging healthier eating through cooking class program that highlights healthy meals and utilize fresh food
El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission
Project Name: La Casita Verde (The Little Greenhouse)
Bringing small production plots to supplement fresh produce for their food pantry and community plots with a focus on Latinos and low-income immigrant communities.
YMCA of Austin
Project Name: EAC-Y – Healthy Kids
Improving the health and well-being of kids and families through healthy eating workshops
Healthy Food Access
Our Shared Kitchen, Inc.
Project Name: H.A.M.M. – Healthy Accessible Mobile Meals
Purchase packaging for partnering program meals to prepare and deliver hot, nutritious meals to individuals experiencing homelessness and food insecurity in Austin.
Overall Wellness
Dell Children’s Medical Center
Project Name: Lifestyle Changes to Decrease Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) in Pediatric Population
Bringing Week-long lifestyle interventions course to equip people already diagnosed with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) with exercise and eating habits that will help prevent the need to advance to medication management and increase overall healthier lifestyles.
Planned Living Assistance Network of Central Texas, Inc.
Project Name: Peers Cultivating Wellness through WHAM, WRAP, & Recovery Dialogues
Promoting physical and mental health of peers with mental health challenges through peer-led programs that focus on empowering them to examine themselves and learn to take control of their own health and wellness using their own skills and tools
New Lincoln Missionary Baptist Church
Project Name: LINC Fit Club and Community Garden
Bringing a wholistic approach to wellness and healthy lifestyles to their congregation with monthly cooking, exercising ,and gardening classes
