Today’s grant gives support to school running programs in an effort to help keep students physically active and decrease the growing occurrence of childhood obesity. The ING Run for Something Better School Awards Program (RFSB) partners with the National Association for Sport and Physical Activity to provide a minimum of fifty $2,000 grants to schools “that want to establish a running program, or expand an existing program, that targets grades 4 through 8 in public elementary or middle schools.”

Application deadline is April 15, 2010. For guidelines and information click here or visit Run for Something Better.