The Partnership for a Healthier America is an independent, nonpartisan, organization that will mobilize broad-based support for efforts to solve the child obesity challenge. The partnership emerged out of a series of conversations between The California Endowment, Kaiser Permanente, Nemours, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.
The California Endowment
The California Endowment, a private, statewide health foundation, was established in 1996 to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians. The Endowment has embarked on a new 10-year initiative, Building Healthy Communities, based on the idea that where we live, work and play directly impacts our health. Through its investments in 14 underserved California communities, The Endowment is supporting grassroots-driven ideas for creating healthy places, people and policies. Successful ideas will provide models for statewide change and create momentum for government policies that prioritize prevention and value the health of all communities as essential to the common good. For more information, visit
www.calendow.org
Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care. Recognized as one of America's leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans, the organization serves 8.6 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente's mission is to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of members and communities served. The organization is dedicated to care innovations, clinical research, health education and the support of community health. In 2009, the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention honored Kaiser Permanente with a
Pioneering Innovation award in recognition of groundbreaking obesity prevention efforts. Their comprehensive, multifaceted approach to obesity prevention includes strong evidence-based clinical prevention strategies, as well as a concerted effort to create the conditions outside the doctors’ offices that make it easier for patients to heed the advice of their physicians to eat better and increase their physical activity. For more information, visit
www.kp.org/communitybenefit
Nemours
Nemours, one of the nation’s leading pediatric health systems, is dedicated to achieving higher health quality and outcomes for all children. Nemours has made a promise to do whatever it takes to prevent and treat even the most disabling childhood conditions. It’s a promise that extends beyond the organization’s nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education and prevention. Nemours operates the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware, and children’s outpatient clinics in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida. Construction of a top-tier pediatric medical facility is underway near Orlando - the Nemours Children's Hospital will open in 2012. In Delaware, using a multi-sector, place-based approach that includes child care, primary care, schools and community-based organizations, Nemours is working to stem the growth of childhood obesity. Nemours leads as both a model of, and an advocate for, health policies and programs that seek to transform our system from a focus on sickness to a focus on wellness. For more information, visit
www.nemours.org
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change. For more than 35 years the Foundation has brought experience, commitment, and a rigorous, balanced approach to the problems that affect the health and health care of those it serves. When it comes to helping Americans lead healthier lives and get the care they need, the Foundation expects to make a difference in your lifetime. For more information, visit
www.rwjf.org
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation works to ensure that all children, and especially the most vulnerable, can grow and thrive by having quality education, economic security, healthy food, physical activity, safe environments and access to health care. Through long-term investments, the Kellogg Foundation has been working to transform food systems and grow healthier generations of children and communities. Today, the Kellogg Foundation continues its tradition as one of the world’s largest private foundations, making grants to improve lives of vulnerable children in the U.S., Latin America, the Caribbean and southern Africa. For more information, visit
www.wkkf.org
Alliance for a Healthier Generation
The American Heart Association and William J. Clinton Foundation joined forces in May of 2005 to create a healthier generation by addressing one of the nation’s leading public health threats – childhood obesity. The goal of the Alliance is to reduce the nationwide prevalence of childhood obesity by 2015, and to empower kids nationwide to make healthy lifestyle choices. The Alliance works to positively affect the places that can make a difference to a child’s health: homes, schools, restaurants, doctor’s offices and communities. For more information, visit
www.HealthierGeneration.org
