The Notah Begay Iii Foundation Inc

Programs: "native strong: healthy kids, healthy futures" is a national program designed to reduce native american childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes. Native strong works to reverse childhood obesity and diabetes through four key functions: grant making, collaboration, knowledge building and capacity building. Critical to and integrated across each of these core functions are: supporting impact services, research and evaluation, policy, resource development and communications. In the last fiscal year, native strong awarded 26 grants totaling 651,199 to 7 tribes and 14 native-led nonprofit organizations in 8 states. Grants support native-led, strategic, emerging, and promising program models that empower tribal communities to increase access to healthy and affordable food, nutrition education and physical activity as well as support policy development to improve health outcomes of native children.

san felipe place based program has implemented a holistic health and wellness model program at san felipe pueblo. The program's mission is to develop and test model evidence-based programming comprised of physical activity, access to healthy and affordable food, and community leadership around health that will reduce the incidences of childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes that can eventually be scaled and replicated in other native communities.

junior golf program helps shape and support the lives of young people by teaching them the fundamentals of the golf game. Junior golf teaches life lessons, values, and leadership skills through the game of golf. Central to its approach is teaching and exemplifying the values of integrity, respect, and perseverance--values youth can use on the course and in life. Junior golf's major accomplishments this year were sustaining the golf program and being able to take it to another level by offering additional structured programming in more native communities and serving more youth. This fiscal year, we served 580 youth (unduplicated numbers) at 6 separate sites and held 9 camps/clinics.