Today, Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the New Orleans Health Department joined the United States Conference of Mayors and the American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy America to announce a $150,000 grant award to support the Health Department’s Fit NOLA initiative. Specifically, this funding will support the Fit NOLA School Designation Program, which recognizes participating public schools in New Orleans for their health and wellness practices. Based on national in-school wellness models, Fit NOLA awarded twelve local schools with either a platinum, gold, silver or bronze designation and will provide grant funding to help expand the schools’ nutritional and physical activity programming.

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