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At One for Health, diversity, equity, and inclusion is who we are. We strive to maintain knowledge and sensitivity of the impact of race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity. Our commitment is to publicly engage with organizations or community groups serving marginalized populations and providing assistance to disadvantaged people, especially children.
At One for Health, diversity, equity, and inclusion is who we are. We strive to maintain knowledge and sensitivity of the impact of race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity. Our commitment is to publicly engage with organizations or community groups serving marginalized populations and providing assistance to disadvantaged people, especially children.
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Press Release - September 2021 - Santa Monica, CA: Boys & Girls Club Programs
We are pleased to announce the beginning of our Best-Self-for-Kids Program in conjunction with the opening of the Fall school semester in Santa Monica. Led by Rana Kirkland, we are off to a great start at this creative and developmentally aggressive Club.
After our first session, we heard this comment from a number of the students in attendance:
“This is the best program that the Boys and Girls Club has ever had”.
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Press Release: May 2021 - Rodman Ride for Kids
2021 Rodman Ride for Kids Registration Is Open!
The 2020 Rodman Ride for Kids went virtual for the first time in Ride history and raised $3m with 1,500 participants.
This year's ride will continue to build off of the momentum from last year's successful virtual ride, while also offering, an in-person ride of no more than 500 participants.
Once again, One for Health and T.R. Miller is proud to be asked to participate as a Partnering organization(Affiliated Charities - Rodman for Kids) and looks forward to helping the Ride for Kids achieve its goals. To learn more about this years program, to register or to donate....please go here...Ride For Kids - Rodman for Kids.
Use this link for more details here on our OFH site: Rodman Ride for Kids - ONE FOR HEALTH FOUNDATION
In the coming weeks we will be providing more details on how you can help, contribute and/or participate to this annual exciting and beneficial program. Take a quick look at the video below to get a sense of how the program is shaping up for this year. More to come.................
Press Release: November 2020 - BS4K Covid Program Alert
Consistent with our desire to meet the needs of underserved youth through-out the country, we are pleased to update the progress we have made helping out Boys & Girls Clubs, particularly given the COVID situation and its many constraints relating to group activity.
We at One for Health (OFH) have been actively engaged with over 30 clubs in 10 states the past few years. During the last 6 months we have transformed our Wellness programs to fit the new needs of the clubs (adding online programs, using Zoom, employing hybrid models). Perhaps even more importantly, we have also added a critical new program to help kids get proper nutrition during and after the COVID pandemic.
We completed pilots of a new hybrid program model (combining onsite instruction, online videos, and Zoom) with 8 clubs last spring in Washington DC, which was extremely well received We are doing the same this fall with 7 clubs in the Salt Lake City area. The program involves a combination of nutrition instruction, yoga, a special cooking series, and the distribution of emergency supplemental nutrition in the form of bars and shakes to the kids.
Since the COVID situation arose, we have supplied over 40,000 meal replacements and nutritious shakes, along with the wellness programs they love. And everything is done with no cost at all to the clubs.
Please take a few minutes to check out this new video below which shows what we are doing with these kids, especially on the nutrition side, and addresses our vision for 2021.
Press Release: August, 2020 Program Update
We continue to remain flexible and expand on our mission to ensure the needs of kids in America are met. Social distancing, job loss and mask wearing are not the only changes we are seeing on the front line. Covid related economic impacts are devastating our most vulnerable population in America and throughout the world. The Brookings Institution reported, The COVID Impact Survey, and The Hamilton Project/Future of the Middle Class Initiative Survey of Mothers with Young Children (based on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) food security questionnaire) showed that 40.9 percent of mothers with children, ages 12 and under, reported household food insecurity since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, as compared with 15.1 in a 2018 survey. Food insecurity for children under 12 is an escalating crisis with no end in sight.
We are responding to this new reality with a new pilot proposal focused on nutrition distribution, which is qualitatively different than food distribution. Our effort will focus on organic, clean whole food and nutrition support because there are plenty of pantries in local communities where vulnerable families can pick up a bag of grocery staples that will stave off hunger for a period. OFH aims to fill in the nutrition gaps with premium nutrition.
We also added on demand video cooking classes which are being used in Boys and Girls Clubs that have remained open during COVID, and can be viewed at home so parents can have fun preparing easy, healthy meals and snacks with their children. Groups of socially distant kids watch the video on a big screen while an adult makes the recipe. When done, the kids get to eat. The reports we are getting is that the children ask daily, “Is the cooking class on today?” We get very excited about that kind of feedback! This class will run for 6 weeks.
Like any non-profit, Grant Funding and donations keep our programs going. Please consider a donation today. Thanks for stopping by!
We continue to remain flexible and expand on our mission to ensure the needs of kids in America are met. Social distancing, job loss and mask wearing are not the only changes we are seeing on the front line. Covid related economic impacts are devastating our most vulnerable population in America and throughout the world. The Brookings Institution reported, The COVID Impact Survey, and The Hamilton Project/Future of the Middle Class Initiative Survey of Mothers with Young Children (based on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) food security questionnaire) showed that 40.9 percent of mothers with children, ages 12 and under, reported household food insecurity since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, as compared with 15.1 in a 2018 survey. Food insecurity for children under 12 is an escalating crisis with no end in sight.
We are responding to this new reality with a new pilot proposal focused on nutrition distribution, which is qualitatively different than food distribution. Our effort will focus on organic, clean whole food and nutrition support because there are plenty of pantries in local communities where vulnerable families can pick up a bag of grocery staples that will stave off hunger for a period. OFH aims to fill in the nutrition gaps with premium nutrition.
We also added on demand video cooking classes which are being used in Boys and Girls Clubs that have remained open during COVID, and can be viewed at home so parents can have fun preparing easy, healthy meals and snacks with their children. Groups of socially distant kids watch the video on a big screen while an adult makes the recipe. When done, the kids get to eat. The reports we are getting is that the children ask daily, “Is the cooking class on today?” We get very excited about that kind of feedback! This class will run for 6 weeks.
Like any non-profit, Grant Funding and donations keep our programs going. Please consider a donation today. Thanks for stopping by!
Press Release: July 2020 - Expanding the Mission and Building on the Vision
During this hectic Covid19 Summer, OFH has continued to make inroads bringing its successful and innovative "BestSelf4Kids" model to Boys and Girls Clubs throughout the US and become an active participant in over 100 after school programs. We invite you to learn more about our continuing focus on teaching and improving the nutrition and health awareness of underserved children in the US. But we need help to keep up the good work for these kids! Please take a moment to watch our short video and to learn more about the specifics of our BestSelf4Kids program.......click here https://www.oneforhealth.org/bestself4kids.html
During this hectic Covid19 Summer, OFH has continued to make inroads bringing its successful and innovative "BestSelf4Kids" model to Boys and Girls Clubs throughout the US and become an active participant in over 100 after school programs. We invite you to learn more about our continuing focus on teaching and improving the nutrition and health awareness of underserved children in the US. But we need help to keep up the good work for these kids! Please take a moment to watch our short video and to learn more about the specifics of our BestSelf4Kids program.......click here https://www.oneforhealth.org/bestself4kids.html
Press Release ........May 2020
2020 1st Quarter Update
One For Health is proud to be a part of a nationwide COVID 19 rapid response team! To date we have partnered with Boys and Girls Clubs in 8 states across this nation delivering healthy lifestyle programs and education funded by a grant from the ISA Foundation. The following outlines some of the strategies we have implemented to deal with the impacts of Covid19 on these partners:
We invite you to learn and see more about our Yoga video program by clicking here…..
Isagenix Executives Assisting with delivery of Nutritious
Shakes and Bars
2020 1st Quarter Update
One For Health is proud to be a part of a nationwide COVID 19 rapid response team! To date we have partnered with Boys and Girls Clubs in 8 states across this nation delivering healthy lifestyle programs and education funded by a grant from the ISA Foundation. The following outlines some of the strategies we have implemented to deal with the impacts of Covid19 on these partners:
- The global pandemic has disconnected our nation’s most vulnerable kids from vitally important nutrition support while sheltering in place. Many of these children's families are unemployed or living paycheck to paycheck having little to no resources during this health crisis. As a part of our rapid response we have distributed 21,000 nutritious kids smoothies across the nation to members of our Boys and Girls Club partners, in addition to other nonprofits serving children. This nutrition support was generously donated by Isagenix and the ISA Foundation
- In addition, we have been working together with BGC staff in Greater Washington to launch a virtual BestSelf4Kids Yoga and dance live streaming program as well as on demand video of youth focused yoga.
- As of April 21 our Arizona Club partners serving first responder and health care workers children in the club house setting, have delivered on demand yoga instruction to 120 children 7 to 14 years old! We continue to find new ways to produce quality on demand videos and live streaming to meet the challenges and needs of these kids.
We invite you to learn and see more about our Yoga video program by clicking here…..
Isagenix Executives Assisting with delivery of Nutritious
Shakes and Bars
Press Release.........January 2020
Happy New Year Everyone!!!
Make it a Good One!
Activity Update: January 2020
- This year is planned to be OFH’s largest expansion yet. We are very excited and will keep you updated as to our progress. Our sincerest thanks to all for your support!
- One for Health Foundation (OFH) has just been selected as an Isa(Isagenix) Foundation follow-on grant recipient for funds and products totaling $100,000. The funds will be applied toward expanding the OFH BestSelf4Kids Program and supporting OFH work as a partner with Boys & Girls Clubs in 8 states and growing!
- OFH recently successfully completed a $25,000 fundraising effort in association with the Boston area Rodman Ride for Kids. The Rodman Ride fundraiser is by invitation only and is the largest single day fundraiser for children of need in the USA.
- Welcome German! German Lam of Glam Foods has joined OFH as a member of the Advisory Board. German is the author of the inspirational book The Dragon Turns to Water. He worked at the Chatham Bars Inn and Harvard Club of Boston prior to becoming Master Chef at the Ritz Carlton. German is a cancer survivor. He is the Founder of Glam Foods and a wellness and lifestyle consultant. He is also an instructor for One for Health’s BestSelf4Kids program. We are very pleased to have German join our team of creative and innovative professionals.
We know that a process of change starts with each person taking responsibility for his or her own wellness. As a group the power grows exponentially.
One for Health provides holistic health programs such as yoga, nutrition lessons, and goal-setting workshops to children. We are a cause-based not for profit organization.