To complete the Healthy Schools Program Report - log into your account (click here). Then click on the "Requirements" tab, then the "Health Schools Program – Implementation Grant Progress Report."
Once you have entered grant information, if you closed the grant prior to completion and need to finish the grant, click here. Enter your email and password, and you will have access to all grants associated with your email address. The information is divided showing incomplete applications first and submitted applications at the bottom.
Healthy Schools Program
Effective this fall, the Mat-Su Health Foundation will transition Healthy Schools Program grant applications from our paper application process to the "GIFTS" online grant process.
Eligible applicants are all Mat-Su Borough School District schools who:
are 2010 participants of the Mat-Su Health Foundation's $1,000 School Health, Safety, Nutrition, and Fitness Grant Program
plan to or have applied for the 2011 Mat-Su Health Foundation $1,000 School Health, Safety, Nutrition and Fitness Grant Program
will provide services within the school environment (includes before and after school activities)?
submitted all reporting requirements and grant agreements for the 2010 $1,000 School Health, Safety, Nutrition, and Fitness Grant Program,
did not receive a Healthy Schools Program grant in 2010,
and submit their Healthy Schools Grant application before 4;00 p.m. on December 9, 2011.
Mat-Su Health Foundation Healthy Schools Program grant applications must be submitted online. We will not accept paper applications.
The MSHF Healthy Schools Program strongly believes that a healthy school environment should not require financial sacrifices. The Mat-Su Health Foundation, working with resources from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, has developed innovative solutions that will help overcome resource constraints and ensure school budgets are not adversely impacted. This grant program supported the following schools in 2010 with a $5,000 grant to implement and sustain a healthier school environment.
Birchtree Charter: $5,000.00 - Rental space @ AT&T for PE classes K-8 & recess/PE monitors
Burchell High: $5,000.00 - After school healthy snacks, health fair, outdoor recreation, cooking classes, heart race fees/costs
Fronteras:$5,000.00 PE equipment & afterschool materials/food/nutritionist
Glacier View:$5,000.00 Cross country skiing & outdoor survival training, PD for staff on healthy/PE activities
Houston High:$5,000.00 Before and after school fitness classes
Houston Middle:$5,000.00 Trail development for cross country skiing and running
John D. Shaw:$5,000.00 Soccer goals and equipment
Knik Elementary:$5,000.00 Physical Activity items: Pedometers, Bike, Zumba & Yoga Classes and Wii Games
Wasilla High:$5,000.00 After school nutrition classes for students, staff, community
Willow Elementary:$5,000.00 Before/After School Ice Skating, Healthy Education, (Staff Wellness - not allowable - revision pending)
The Healthy Schools Program (HSP) was launched by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the William J. Clinton Foundation (WCF) with funding from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The Mat-Su Health Foundation (MSHF) in support of the Valley's schools strongly endorses the goal to reduce the nationwide prevalence of childhood obesity by 2015. MSHF is providing funding to support the implementation of the Healthy Schools Program in the Mat-Su Borough School District for the 2011-12 school year.
