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Our Vision . . .
Northeast Iowa is a unique place where all residents and guests experience, celebrate and promote healthy locally grown food with abundant opportunities for physical activity and play EVERY DAY.
Healthier people make stronger families and vibrant communities. About the Food & Fitness Initiative
Our five county region is on the ground floor of a movement to improve the policies, practices, and systems that determine how food arrives on our tables and how NE Iowa communities can grow opportunities for physical activity for all.
Planning teams in Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Howard and Winneshiek Counties meet monthly to determine our local assets, learn about possibilities, and define our vision. Over 500 people from all sectors (including public health, education, agriculture, business, government, faith communities, parks and recreation) are engaged. A regional collaborative is strengthening and focusing our efforts.
The NE Iowa Food and Fitness Initiative is one of nine projects nationwide supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to be models of change over the next ten years. Each community received a $500,000 two-year planning grant. There is potential for long-term implementation support based on the community action plan NE Iowa submits to the Kellogg Foundation in summer 2009.
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