* BREAKING NEWS *
White House Accepts NASPGHAN’s Bold Commitment to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities
February 27, 2024 – Today the Biden-Harris Administration announced new commitments to the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities. NASPGHAN is excited to announce the White House has accepted its commitment of $25,000 to fund up to five grants to support innovative, bold ideas for community-based interventions to improve nutrition-related child health equity.
Individuals eligible to apply will include members of NASPGHAN, the Association of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Nurses, and the Council for Pediatric Nutrition Professionals.
NASPGHAN will develop and issue its first-ever request for applications (RFA) for community-based projects and interventions to improve overall pediatric health and nutrition with a special emphasis on addressing nutrition and health disparities. Release of the RFA is expected this spring/summer.
Among the general criteria applicants will be expected to meet include:
- Identification and commitment from a community partner as a project co-lead;
- A requirement the initiative be new and not a continuation of an existing initiative;
- Clear goals that include addressing food insecurity, improving nutrition equity, or increasing related health equity outcomes;
- Projects that occur in community settings, such as towns, cities, counties, school districts, or reservations or tribal communities; and
- Projects that target pediatric populations in communities with health disparities based on higher overall rates of disease incidence, prevalence, morbidity or mortality as compared to the health status of the general population.
NASPGHAN is proud to offer this bold commitment to advance the White House’s goal to end hunger and reduce diet-related diseases by 2030 — all while reducing disparities.
In March 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities. The Challenge built on the September 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health where the President released a National Strategy. NASPGHAN was represented at that conference by Jenifer Lightdale, MD.
