FAQs and glossary

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As noted, the Kellogg Foundation is not accepting unsolicited proposals in the southern Africa region. Our international team continues to manage and evaluate the current Kellogg Foundation grants in Africa. We may provide support to a select number of opportunities that go hand-in-hand with our mission, and some of those opportunities may include some Mission-Driven Investing.

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We have an international team that continues to manage and evaluate the current W.K. Kellogg Foundation grants in the southern Africa region. We do anticipate that we may provide support to a select number of opportunities that go hand-in-hand with our mission that the Foundation has requested. Some of those opportunities may include some Mission-Driven Investing. The Foundation will not accept unsolicited proposals.

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The W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society.

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Physical activity environments refer to places or environments where people can be active. These places or environments can include schools, sidewalks and streets, parks, trails, recreation facilities, workplaces and more. Physical activity environments can also include transit and transportation systems—how people move from place to place without driving. Equally important to physical activity environments are the policies and practices that encourage being active.

Opportunities for physical activity have been designed out of the places we live, learn, work and play—from schools that lack playgrounds or have eliminated physical education classes, to places that have become unsafe for our children. While this is a problem nationwide, in some places a lack of opportunity, limited resources and fear of crime have eliminated outdoor physical activity from children’s and families’ daily lives.

Food & Community envisions a nation where all children and families have safe, accessible places in which they can be active and play. Improvements to our physical activity environments can include building and redesigning neighborhoods with sidewalks, safe streets and quality parks. It can also include instituting policies, which require physical activity and play in our nation’s schools. Supporting physical activity will require civic participation, policy-driven solutions and long-term investments. Efforts must benefit our most vulnerable populations, who experience the greatest health disparities.

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Food & Community can be thought of as the next iteration of these former bodies of work. Food & Community continues Food & Society’s efforts to create community-based food systems that support local, healthy, sustainably grown food. Food & Community also builds on Food & Fitness efforts to address affordability and access to healthy, locally grown food, and physical activity and play. Like both of the former programs, Food & Community also invests in community-driven policy and systems change work.

As part of a larger body of work at the Kellogg Foundation called Food, Health & Well-Being, Food & Community contributes to two critical pieces of the food spectrum: school food and community food.

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For more than 80 years, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has used its voice to advocate for equitable access to good food and physical activity, and to bring meaningful change to our food systems. The Food & Community program continues this legacy through investments that improve the health of our nation’s most vulnerable children by transforming food systems and the places kids live, learn, and play.

Through the Food & Community Program, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation targets investments to improve school food systems, increase access to good food and physical activity, and shape the national movement for healthy eating and active living.

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After ten consecutive years of supporting the growing Food & Society and Food & Community movements through an annual convening, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation now plans to hold the meeting on a biennial basis, making our next gathering in Spring 2012. Please save May 22-24, 2012 for our next Food & Community network gathering to be held at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina.

We remain strongly committed to the Food & Community movement and to our national network of partners, and plan to support the convening of smaller, focused groups during the interim in 2011.

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Learning and evaluation will continue to be integral to our work. A Food & Community cross-site evaluation will be a key component of evaluation moving forward.