Funded Seed Grants

This is a list of Seed Grants awarded since the start of the program in 2003.

2007

• Developing and Testing Feasibility of a Home-based Lifestyle intervention for a Pilot Study
  Linda Van Horn, PhD, RD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  
  
• Logan Square Integrated Evaluation
  Beverly McElmurry, EdD, FAAN, UIC College of Nursing

2006

• Northeastern Illinois Community Food Security Assessment Dissemination
  Daniel Block, PhD, Chicago State University, and Noel Chavez, RD, PhD, University of Illinois Chicago
  
  
• Go Healthy!
  Nick Jackson, Chicagoland Bicycle Federation
  
  
• Evaluating the Impact of Nutritionally Designed Dining Ware on Food Choices: A Pilot Study
  Amy Bohnert, PhD, Loyola University Chicago
  
  
• Organic School Project: A Proposal to Help Students Grow
  Meg Trausch, Organic School Project
  
  
• The Chicago Food Access Network
  LaDonna Redmond, Institute for Community Resource Development, and William Kling, JD, Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Bush, DiCianni & Rolek, PC
  
  
• Developing and Testing Feasibility of a Tailored Lifestyle Intervention Program to Assist Clinic Practices in Their Efforts to Prevent and Treat Overweight: Planning for a Pilot Study
  Linda Van Horn, PhD, RD, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
  
  
• Examining Family, School, and Neighborhood Effects in a School-Based Food Education Program
  Kathleen Cagney, PhD, University of Chicago

2005

• Choosing Essential Foods (CHEF)
  Elizabeth Lynch, PhD, Northwestern University
  
  
• Bush Community Garden of Hope
  Sylvia Ortega and Dinah Ramirez, RN, Bush Home Owner and Tenants Association
  
  
• Implementing a Growth Interpretation System
  Walter Daniel Perez, MD, Alivio Medical Center
  
  
• Development and Validation of a Measurement Device of Children’s Physical Activity Weimo Zhu, PhD, University of Illinois
  
  
• Literature Review of School-Based Nutrition Education Curricula
  Weimo Zhu, PhD, University of Illinois
  
  
• FitMatters: Hands-On Healthy Cooking for Low-Income Families Combating Obesity
  Julie Germann, PhD, La Rabida Children’s Hospital
  
  
• Go Healthy!
  Rob Sadowsky, Chicagoland Bicycle Federation

2004

• Fresh from the Farm
  Gary Cuneen, Seven Generations Ahead
  
  
• Clinic-Based Strategies to Addressing Child Overweight
  Inyang Isong, MD, Lawndale Christian Health Center
  
  
• Worms, Bees, and Bicycles: A Lively Neighborhood Project to Lower Obesity in Humboldt Park and Logan Square Children
  Reverend Clare Butterfield, Faith in Place
  
  
• Education Program on Children’s Eating Patterns and Attitudes: A Pilot Study in a Chicago Public School
  Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, PhD, University of Illinois Chicago, LaDonna Redmond, Institute for Community Resource Development, and Joanne Kouba, MS, RD, Loyola University Chicago
  
  
• An Ecological Approach to Understanding Factors that Influence Dietary Practices in African-American Children and their Caregivers
  Angela Odoms-Young, PhD, Northern Illinois University
  
  
• ACCESS Weight Management Program and Childhood Obesity Intervention
  Elizabeth Calhoun, PhD, ACCESS Community Health
  
  
• Chicago Public Schools Participation in Statewide Health/Fitness Project
  M. Elizabeth Verner, EdD, IAHPERD

2003

• Physical Education Instructional Profile and Needs Assessment in Chicago Public Schools
  David Q. Thomas, PhD, Illinois State University, and Patricia Faire, Chicago Public Schools
  
  
• Overweight in Chicagoland Preschool Children: Prevalence and Environmental Influences
  Lindsey Turner, PhD, University of Illinois Chicago
  
  
• Measuring Community Walkability for Children: How Do Parental/Caregiver Perception(s) Compare to Other Measures of Walkability?
  Jan Metzger, Center for Neighborhood Technology