Project Fit America

Project Fit America is a program designed to improve fitness testing levels of children K-12, and to encourage children to develop lifelong fitness habits. The program includes permanent outdoor fitness equipment, teacher training in how to use the program, and a comprehensive cardiovascular instructional package that can be used to enhance teaching under the schools Healthful Living Education Standard Course of Study.

The program is administered by a public charity, Project Fit America (PFA), founded in 1990 as a 501(c)(3) organization, "dedicated to making kids fit". Additionally, it is "organized and operated exclusively to engage in, support, and administer programs to advance and improve the physical fitness and health of children and adults in the United States through the promotion of physical fitness education".

Elementary schools had the opportunity to submit a grant application whereby they demonstrated how they intended to meet the established criteria. We are excited to announce that through the sponsorship of the Moses Cone-Wesley Long Community Health Foundation eleven elementary schools now have the Project Fit America program and others will be added as soon as possible. Schools benefiting from the program are as follows: Jefferson, Washington, Hunter, Bluford, Colfax, Pilot, Rankin, Alamance, Jones, Hampton and Bessemer.

For more information visit Project Fit America.

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