Healthy Eating, Active Living
Events
Sunday Parkways - Northwest Portland
Northwest Portland Sunday Parkways
Sunday, September 26th
10 am - 3 pm
The 4.5-mile Northwest Portland Sunday Parkways route will have two loops, connecting SW Stark Street, Old Town Chinatown, Pearl and Northwest neighborhoods. Activities, food, and entertainment will be in Couch and Wallace Parks and along the route.
Resources
Northwest Community Changes Guidebook
This guidebook is designed to give community-based organizations and coalitions practical, easy to use tools and methods for evaluating policy and environmental change initiatives. Because Northwest Health Foundation is becoming more involved in policy and environmental change projects, this guidebook holds particular relevance for many of our grantees and partners.
The guidebook is a collaboration between Northwest Health Foundation and six grantees participating in our Alliance for the Promotion of Physical Activity and Nutrition (APPAN) program. The guidebook was produced at the end of the two-year Northwest Community Changes project, which was designed to build the evaluation capacity of APPAN grantees.
While the work was focused on improving opportunities for healthy eating and active living, the methodology is appropriate for policy advocacy toward other goals as well.
News
Press Release
Commentary
Poll: Obesity Seen as a Growing Problem in Northwest - June 23rd, 2010
A NWHF-funded poll conducted by Davis Hibbitts and Mighall, Inc. finds that Northwest residents see childhood obesity as a growing problem in their communities.
New Research: Oregonians Believe Soda Companies Contribute to Kids’ Obesity - May 24th, 2010
Northwest Health Foundation releases results from a statewide study that presents Oregonians’ opinions about the relationship between soda advertisements, soda companies, and childhood obesity.
Chronicle of Philanthopy - Five Great Program Officers - May 3rd, 2010
NWHF’s Chris Kabel profiled as one of the nation’s “Five Great Program Officers.”
NWHF Releases Oregon Obesity Study - April 6th, 2009
Northwest Health Foundation releases seven-year Oregon obesity study conducted by Dr. Kenneth Thorpe, Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.