Using a community-based approach, the P.H.A.T.(Promoting Healthy Activities Together) campaign embraced music, dance, emceeing, and other elements of hip-hop culture (in community centers, schools, after school programs and other organized settings) to deliver important messages about healthy eating and physical activity.

USDA's Fruit and Vegetable Pilot Program increased access to fruits and vegetables for 64,000 U.S. students.

The Healthy Eating, Active Communities Program is designed to demonstrate how collaborative approaches can change environmental risk factors. It engages youth, families, community leaders, health professionals and communities in creating healthy environments in order to facilitate healthy choices, particularly in low-income communities.

The W.K. Kellogg Food & Fitness Initiative is working to create vibrant communities that support access to locally grown, healthy, affordable food, and safe and convenient places for physical activity and play–for everyone. To achieve this, we are working with nine communities nationwide. Each is facilitating collaboration across multiple sectors and communities–from transportation to public health, from agriculture to education, from youth to the faith community. We believe that by working together we can advance integrated, sustainable and practical solutions that will serve as models for positive change for all communities.

The Go Healthy Challenge TM Kids Movement is an on-air and online and community-based program that empower kids to take the lead in making their lives, schools, and communities healthier. The goal of this Go Healthy Challenge is to engage at least 2 million kids to take the Go Healthy Pledge and eat better and exercise more. Are you up for the challenge?

The California Adolescent Nutrition and Fitness Program conducted Project REAL (Redefining Excellence, Activity, and Leadership) to encourage physical activity and healthy eating among Asian American and Pacific Islander (API) adolescents in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program (CCROPP) is the Central California Public Health Partnership's 3-year initiative to reduce disparities in obesity and diabetes in the San Joaquin Valley. This project is possible as a result of a 2.6 million dollar grant from The California Endowment. California State University, CCROPP objectives are to improve the food and physical activity environments for Central California communities and to create momentum for widespread changes in the policies and practices that contribute to the rising rates of obesity in our region.

The Food Trust provides nutrition education services to communities through seasonal farmers' markets and school markets. The Trust also helps to expand the supply of food resources available to low-income communities through advocacy, by creating model programs, and by undertaking research studies on food disparities and disseminating their findings to government officials and policy-makers. Collectively, these efforts are addressing the systemic issues that prevent our food and farming system from adequately serving hundreds of thousands of individuals throughout the region every year.

The Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments designed the Environmental Nutrition and Activity Community Tool (ENACT), a concrete menu of strategies designed to help you improve nutrition and activity environments on a local level.