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Chesterfield Elementary School Receives a SRTS Mini-Grant
Chesterfield Elementary School in Chesterfield NJ has been awarded one of twenty five mini-grants from the National Center for Safe Routes to School and Schwinn's Helmets on Heads Program. The two organizations teamed up to provide these $1,000 mini-grants to twenty five schools throughout the country. These mini-grants are intended [...]
Nominate your school and municipality for Safe Routes Recognition! Applications are due on January 31, 2015.
Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs and events enable and encourage children to walk and bike to school, leading to healthier, more active children, less traffic congestion near schools, and better air quality - and daily physical activity improves test scores for students! Municipalities and schools (public, private and charter) [...]
Check out the NJ School Zone Design Guide!!
Check out the new release of the New Jersey School Zone Design Guide! The New Jersey School Zone Design Guide is a new resource which provides guidance for schools, local government and community members involved in efforts to enable and encourage children, including those with disabilities, to walk and bicycle [...]
New Training Video and Website for New Jersey Crossing Guards
Announcing the release of Crosswalk Heroes: Techniques and Tactics for Crossing Guards, the new training video for New Jersey Crossing Guards [lightbox link="http://www.njcrossingguards.org/?page_id=38" thumb="http://www.saferoutesnj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Crossing-Guard-video-image-300x239.png" width="300" align="left" title="Crossing Guard video image" frame="true" icon="image"] The New Jersey SRTS Resource Center has released a new training video [...]
Community Partners Join Forces for Safer Walking in Elizabethport
How do you maximize a small pot of funding from a micro-grant and turn it into a larger project with a bigger product? You build partnerships and tap into programs that offer technical assistance at no cost to the community. That’s what Groundwork Elizabeth and Brand New Day,Inc., accomplished as [...]
ShapingNJ Grant Funding Opportunity
The New Jersey Department of Health is accepting proposals for their ShapingNJ Healthy Community Grant cycle -- Promoting Systems, Policy and Environmental Change for Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention at the Local Level. Shaping NJ is the state partnership for nutrition, physical activity and obesity prevention with a goal of preventing obesity [...]