- Provided technical assistance to the following initiatives:
- Consulted with 12 school districts in California and 44 healthcare agencies in the U.S. including the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), the California Department of Education (CDE) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. View Our Organizations Served.
- Provided nutrition and physical activity services, training and materials (including Spanish language resources) to over 800 after school programs and community-based organizations across the country.
- Conducted 200+ workshops and trained more than 5,000 youth leaders, staff and youth.
- Awarded over $1 million in grants and scholarships to support programs and youth interested in pursuing the improvement of healthy eating and physical activity in communities of color (we are currently not giving out grants at this time). Full list of Our Past Grantees.
- We work with communities to increase their capacity to navigate systems and advance policy change.
- CANFIT builds on community strengths and assets to raise up local leadership so that efforts are sustainable.
- CANFIT understands that community members and youth need to be engaged as full partners in developing the programs and policies that seek to support them.
- We partner with community members and youth to advance community-based solutions.
- We work with communities to develop programs and practices that are responsive to their food and physical activity needs.
- CANFIT works to incorporate rather than ignore cultural foods and traditions in an effort to celebrate difference as a community strength and asset.
- CANFIT has real world experience and longstanding support in African American, Latino/Hispanic, American Indian, Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
- CANFIT works with communities to help them target the root causes of health inequities.
- CANFIT focuses on policies that advance systems change in historically underserved communities.
