Canfit Nonprofit

Our fiscal year ends on Thursday, December 31 and we are still $25,000 short on our funding for 2016. Support from friends like you will help us bridge the gap and ensure that we can continue to provide successful programs as we start the New Year. I hope you will consider making a special tax-deductible contribution at this time to help us reach out fundraising goals. A gift of any amount will make a real difference. Thanks to a generous anonymous donor, every $1 you donat...e to CANFIT will be matched. This means you can help us fund academic scholarships, start a career pipeline for young people interested in food and fitness, provide trainings to community groups, and advocate for policy changes to improve the food and fitness environments of low-income communities across the country. Your gift of $50 can become $100, providing supplies for a healthy snacks and meals class for an after school program. Your gift of $250 can become $500, providing an undergraduate scholarship to a nutrition, culinary, or physical education student. These are just two examples of how you can help us make a real difference in the lives of adolescents and the communities that support them. To learn more about our work, see http://www.canfit.org. Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity to double the impact of your support. You can mail your check made payable to CANFIT/Tides Center (2140 Shattuck Ave., Suite 1110, Berkeley, CA 94704) to make a secure donation online: health.https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/canfit. Together, we can make healthy eating and physical activity the norm in our communities and fulfill our mission to change community environments so that they support good.

Introducing our 2015-16 Scholarship Recipients! Since 1994, CANFIT has awarded undergraduate and graduate scholarships to California African-American, American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian American, Pacific Islander or Latino/Hispanic students expressing financial need to study nutrition, public health, physical education or culinary arts in the state of California. We congratulate this year's recipients! Check out more about CANFIT's scholarship program: http://canfit.org/sc...holarships/ The next round of scholarship applications are due March 31st.

Our latest newsletter's out! Featuring our 2015-16 Scholarship Recipients, last year's accomplishments, a save the date for the National Farm to Cafeteria Conference, and news of Marion Nestle's new book Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda - and Winning http://p0.vresp.com/O3VPUL

During this time of thanksgiving, as we reflect back on our work, we would like thank all of our partners, donors, and colleagues that worked with us this year, and share with you some of our successes for 2015. http://canfit.org/blog/canfit2015

The latest on the blog - U.S. Department of Agriculture: Step up food quality for youth! #usda #nutritionassistance #poc #nutritionandphysicalactivity http://canfit.org/blog/usdastepitup