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10 Year Anniversary

2012 was CLOCC's 10 year anniversary! We celebrated throughout the year with special events and activities to commemmorate this important milestone.

Promoting our Anniversary -

Each quarter, we focused on a specific area of our work:

First Quarter: Data and Research

• Read Executive Director Adam Becker's blog post highlighting our data and research past, present, and plans for the future.
  
  
• Read a guest blog post on a successful project that started as a Seed Grant by Dr. Amy Bohnert from Loyola University. See how she planted a seed (grant) and watched it grow from a pilot project to a fledgling business venture.
  
  
• The March 21 Quarterly Meeting focused on data and research - see the keynote presentation from Dr. Terry Huang here.

Second Quarter: Community Partnerships

• Read Adam's blog post highlighting our community partnerships - past, present, and into the future.
  
  
• Community partners can enter the We are CLOCC photo contest for a chance at winning $2,500 for their organization. Congratulations to May's monthly winner, American Diabetes Association, and June's monthly winner, Better Boys Foundation! See the monthly winners here.
  
  
• There was a 5-4-3-2-1 Go! community training at Loyola Park on June 1. The next training will be in the fall - date and location to be announced.
  
  
• The June 19 Quarterly Meeting focused on community interventions to promote healthy living and obesity prevention.
  
  
• 5-4-3-2-1 Go! launched a Twitter feed - find it here.
  
  
• Read a blog post catching up with members of the Go Team, high school students who promoted the 5-4-3-2-1 Go! message across Chicago from 2006 - 2008.

Third Quarter: Unique Partnerships

• Read Adam's blog post highlighting some of our unique partnerships, including clinical, policy, corporate, and schools.
  
  
• Congratulations to this quarter's winners in the We are CLOCC photo contest - Urban Initiatives in July and PCC Community Wellness Center in August. See the monthly winners here.

Fourth Quarter: The Future of Childhood Obesity Prevention in Chicago

• Read Adam's blog post featuring the highlights of our anniversary year and thoughts on the future of childhood obesity prevention in Chicago.
  
  
• In honor of our 10 year anniversary, Mayor Rahm Emanuel issued a proclamation announcing that November 14, 2012 was "Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children" Day in Chicago. Read the proclamation here.
  
  
• CLOCC hosted two events on November 14 to talk about the future of childhood obesity prevention in Chicago. One was with over 35 corporations, and the other was with over a dozen philanthropic organizations. We look forward to continued conversations with both groups.
  
  
• CLOCC received congratulations from First Lady Michelle Obama for our tenth anniversary and for CLOCC Day in Chicago. Read her letter here.
  
  
• Congratulations to Urban Initiatives, the winner in the "We are CLOCC" photo contest. The winning organization was announced at the December 6 Quarterly Meeting.

Other Happenings

• Browse the 10th anniversary album on Facebook, an archive of photos from the past ten years. Send photos to info@clocc.net if you have some to add.
  
  
• Read the letters of congratulations we have received:
  
  
  • First Lady Michelle Obama
  • Alderman Rey Colon, Chicago's 35th Ward
  • Christopher Bolling, MD, FAAP, AAP Provisional Section on Obesity Executive Committee
  • Dwayne Proctor, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Jeff Bartow, Southwest Organizing Project
  • Jim Dower, Urban Initiatives
  • Kelly Brownell, PhD, Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, Yale University
  • Larry Cohen, Prevention Institute
  • Lynn Olson, PhD, American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Martha Blaine and Marilyn Self, Community Council of Greater Dallas
  • Sarah Messiah, PhD, MPH, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
  • Terry T-K Huang, PhD, MPH, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center
    
    
• Check out these videos of 10th anniversary congratulations:
  
  
  • Keven Mosley-Koehler, Washtenaw County Public Health
  • Kendall Stagg, Illinois Public Health Institute
  • Rebecca Unger, Northwestern University and Northwestern Children's Practice
  • Ivan Zavala, former Go Team member
  • Sarah Strunk, Active Living by Design and Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities
  • Angela Odoms-Young, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Jeff Sunderlin, YMCA of the USA
  • Jen Kauper-Brown, Northwestern University
  • Jennifer Herd, Chicago Department of Public Health
  • Lucy Gomez-Feliciano, Logan Square Neighborhood Association
  • Marice Ashe, ChangeLab Solutions
    
    
• Read the proclamation issed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn in honor of our 10th anniversary.
  

Acknowledgements

CLOCC thanks our past and present funders for their generous support of our work:

• The Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute
• Polk Bros. Foundation
• Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
• Chicago Community Trust
• Searle Funds at the Chicago Community Trust
• Michael Reese Health Trust
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
• BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois
• Kraft Foundation
• Stuart Family Foundation
• J.R. Albert Foundation
• Members of the Corporate Advisory Committee