The Youth Alliance was formed on August 26, 2008. It offers youth organizations a nutrition education tool-box they can use in their programming in whatever way they want. All organizations that participate in Partnering with MyPyramid will be identified on the MyPyramid.gov website.
Youth organizations that have expressed initial interest in partnering with MyPyramid include:
Action for Healthy Kids |
Big Brothers Big Sisters National Office |
Boy Scouts of America |
Boys and Girls Clubs of America |
Children's Defense Fund |
Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America, Inc. |
Future Farmers of America |
HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion |
National After School Association |
National Association of Child Care Resources & Referral Agencies |
National Association of Student Councils |
National Association for the Education of Young Children |
National Association for Sport and Physical Education |
National Capital Girl Scout Council |
National Recreation and Park Association |
National PTA |
National 4-H Headquarters |
USDA Forest Service Conservation/Recreation |
YMCA |
YWCA |
On January 14, 2009, at the USDA Whitten Building in Washington, DC, the Partnering with MyPyramid Symposia will be held and will announce the new partnerships between members of the Corporate Challenge and members of the Youth Alliance. Both the Corporate
Challenge and the Youth Alliance are open to new members. Additional information can be found by following the links to each.
Check out the MyPyramid e-Post — the newsletter for and about the MyPyramid Corporate Challenge partners. Hear what others are doing to help combat obesity using MyPyramid... Learn who has joined the team... See what's next with MyPyramid... Click on the MyPyramid e-Post heading above to read all about it!
How Can My
Company Join?
The Action Kit is designed to
be the turn-key way for your company to join this movement
and transform the way America eats. Everything you need to
sign up and develop a project is included in the kit. You
can print the entire kit for easy reference or click on a
specific subject heading to access that topic.
This page was last updated on October 09, 2008 01:34 PM