Stay tuned for information about our new four-year grant program focusing on promoting resilience in traumatized children. The guidelines will be distributed at the beginning of February.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our 2012 Theater Event, "Come Fly Away", featuring the music of Frank Sinatra and the amazing choreography of Twyla Tharp. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
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Agency note: the Bright Promises Foundation works by RFP to select grant-recipient agencies from a pool of invited applicants. It does not select unsolicited proposals.
According to Voices for Illinois Children, nearly half the children in Illinois are either obese or at risk for becoming obese. The rate of obesity is greater for children from low-income families and African American and Latino children are at greater risk than other groups. Recent studies have shown that obesity in children has doubled over the past three decades.
The Surgeon General has warned that without change, the rates of preventable disease and death caused by obesity could soon overtake those caused by cigarette smoking. It has been predicted that today’s children will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents because of poor lifestyle habits, marking the first decline in life expectancy in the modern era.
