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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

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