Applications are due by March 30.
Dannon will award grants of $30,000 to four nonprofits for programs that promote healthy eating and support nutrition education for children within each of the four communities where a Dannon facility is located.
To qualify for funding, organisations must be designated as a 501 nonprofit organisation and must already be engaged in a nutrition education program for children up to age 18, or be able to launch such an initiative in 2012.
Dannon established the Dannon Next Generation Nutrition grant program in 2006 to promote childhood nutrition education in communities. Each organisation that receives a grant creates a programme that helps children develop life-long habits for good nutrition and exercise.
In 2011 alone, $120,000 in grants benefited nearly 4,000 children and families nationwide; and since the inception of the Dannon Next Generation Nutrition grant programme, more than $700,000 has benefited nearly 18,000 children and their families.
Source: The Dannon Company
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