We recently received a $10,000 donation from GOLO, the wellness solutions company. The donation will fund the development of a Project Fit America grant program in GOLO’s corporate home state of Delaware. How schools in Delaware can apply:Click here for more information on how to apply or to request a grant application. Grant submissions will […]
Golo and Project Fit America Announce New Grant Program in Delaware Read More »
I am a self made woman who has not had any education beyond high school and have lived the better part of my life on “hope and tuna fish sandwiches,” following my heart and passion against all odds. I have never been afraid to use my life in service of others as it brings forth
Celebrating 30 Years Read More »
Reporter captures heart and soul of a decade long Project Fit America program thriving in Pennsylvania
“As their levels of strength developed, so did their confidence.” he says Read More »
Guest Blog by: Laura Bollan/Director, Healthy Communities-Sarah Bush Lincoln Health System, Matoon, IL Back in February, I took on the role as “Director of Healthy Communities.” I had so much to learn about our programs: Healthy Kids, Body Electric and SBL Dental Services. We are all about health and fitness, and I was neither. We
Motivated to Move! A Sponsor’s personal story Read More »
2013 has been a year like none other. It has been a year of unexpected twists and turns that when laid to pen….I can hardly believe the journey. It reads like a fiction novel…but every word is the truth. The year started out rough for me personally. I lost my mom unexpectedly in June of
2013 What a ride! Fargo, Fall, Fire and Ringo Starr Read More »
It is hard to believe we are at mid July. This time of year we are plotting, planning and preparing for the Fall Launch of new schools and Sponsors and returning to many schools for their 2nd year of in-service and program progression. It’s like working a huge jigsaw puzzle of cities and states across
Getting Ready to Rock It! Read More »
Guest Blog by Kim Berg-Alamance Elementary School-Greensboro, NC Picture this….walking into your child’s third grade teacher’s classroom and seeing nothing on the walls. No procedures, no rules, no signs of curriculum being taught, and no student work. Would you want your child to have that teacher? Then think to yourself PE Teachers… what do parents,
-Guest Blog- Diane Earhart-All Star Physical Education Teacher South Central Elementary School-Chuckey, TN The Pride of Wildcats at South Central is blessed to have received the Project Fit America program 13 years ago in 2000. I am in my 40th year of teaching and I love it. I have added many units and many challenges
How I challenge my kids. Read More »
“Sometimes the most ordinary things become extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.” This is a favorite quote of mine, by an author unknown. I think “author unknown” was very wise. This quote embodies what makes Project Fit America the special, dynamic organization we have become over the past twenty-two years. We are
Guest Blog by Adrian Dodson-Physical Education Teacher/All Star Teacher of the Year-Pass Road Elementary School-Gulfport, MS “It definitely needs something” I said to myself, while surveying the dull white walls inside the antiquated gym. The gym where I’d spend eight hours a day teaching elementary students the most important class of their lives, physical education.
If these gymnasium walls could talk. Read More »
