We will use the $1000 to setup a technical infrastructure that will give Elderberries Cafe the ability to do live webcasts using LiveStream.com. On March 20th, the First Day of Spring, Elderberries Cafe will unite with local businesses to conduct a day long live webcast filled with delicious raw recipes the viewers can make at home and fresh new exercise routines from local boxing and fitness professionals. This event will coincide with promotions from all the businesses and a local publicity campaign that will bring together the Hollywood community, but will also share the valuable health tips with the entire world via the web. After, this digital infrastructure will help Elderberries grow to become the community hub it aspires to be.

We would like to get some FUN active items like a parachute, jump ropes, frisbees, as much as we could afford to get these kids moving and socializing through movement.

On PACES Day volunteers from local universities and volunteer groups will be stationed throughout Max Brandon Park in Flint, Michigan. Each volunteer will facilitate activities for all ages such as jump rope, hop-scotch, relay races, interactive storytelling, basketball, balancing games, yoga and hula hooping contest. Local teams will give demonstrations of competitive jump roping and stepping and a local radio station will provide promotion and entertainment on site. Posters with fun trivia facts will be posted along the park trail and healthy snacks will be provided. Funds will be used to purchase equipment for activities, reimburse competitive teams for travel, refreshments and promotional materials.

GNYDA will adopt bodegas (i.e. small corner stores) in the South Bronx and will enroll the bodegas in NYC Department of Health’s Healthy Bodega program. We will partner with the bodega owners to ensure they do not incur financial losses from devoting shelf space to healthy foods instead of candy and chips. Our Registered Dietitians will provide bilingual recipes, cooking demos, and workshops to help maintain a demand for fresh produce and other nutrient-dense foods. We will partner with local schools and community groups to distribute coupons and incentives for the healthy items sold at the adopted bodegas. Through this initiative, our bodegas will be a source of delicious, nutritious foods in a neighborhood.

$1000 will allow us to purchase and install an air walker exercise unit in a high-need local park, selected in cooperation with city officials and community partners. We will then conduct demonstration sessions showing park-goers how to use it. Air walkers allow users to mimic a walking or a jogging motion, like an elliptical machine. These outdoor machines are eco-friendly and easy to maintain because they require no electricity, are made from durable steel, and designed to withstand all weather conditions. They are fun to use, and will promote a culture of health in communities that disproportionately suffer from obesity and may have limited access to traditional fitness centers.

theMOVE would use the GOOD Maker grant to bring 50 more youth on trips with us this year, by making possible 3 additional farm workday trips with low-income groups. We organize trips from start to finish -- coordinating with local farms, arranging transportation, overseeing the work, running the reflections -- and we do so with folks that usually can't afford to pay for the cost of the trip. We also heavily outreach within our local communities to find folks who have never thought to step out onto a farm before. As a young organization, we're building up our pool of resources to ensure that these opportunities are available to all.

With the funds from this challenge, we hope to continue Literacy for Little Ones into 2012 and expand the program to more hospitals in Central Wisconsin, so every family can experience the love of reading! Approximately 1,500 families have been impacted, over 100 volunteers have gotten involved, and our goal is to increase both of these numbers. Other goals include creating a website, to inform the community of how the project is going, and establishing an elementary component to guarantee the love of reading sticks with children throughout their life and to teach them the importance of volunteering as well.

Reward Money The $1,000 will help us purchase the food and ingredients for cooking. We will also use the money to promote the event with flyers and pamphlets. Each family will be provided a small recipe booklet and healthy eating guidelines that they can use at home.

The mission of Sol Food Mobile Farms (SFMF) is to serve communities in their own backyards! By recognizing that every community has a unique set of resources and skills, SFMF hopes to provide a meaningful gardening experiences for every site they visit. We hope that by providing workshops at no cost to schools and community centers we can empower the younger generation to be involved in their own food systems. In addition, we hope that these immersions in community gardening will foster an appreciation for healthy foods and nutrition. This money would fund the supplies for an entire garden in one of the eight cities we plan to visit, which includes soil, lumber, seeds, and tools.

Capoeira is an Afro-Braziian martial art that incorporates self-defense techniques, acrobatics, dance, and music into a sport and game that is appreciated by people of all walks of life. Oficina da Capoeira is one group of many that practice capoeira. We will host a weekend of workshops in DC for people of all ages - though focused on local underserved youth - to learn from Mestre Ray, the internationally renowned top capoeirista in our group. With these workshops we hope to encourage more people to get active through capoeira's unique, holistic practice: a physically demanding activity that also engages the mind through learning (1) a new language (Portuguese) and (2) how to play several instruments.

1) Speak to Farmer Piper at Atwater Village Farm on Glendale about using her space to teach cooking classes. 2) Schedule vegan chefs to teach residents how to cook with vegetables and fruit they are growing in their backyards. 3) Bring in a nutritionist familiar with plant based diets to educate the residents. If the space, nutritionist, and chefs time are donated, the money would go towards giving out starter plants, credit at Farmscape to help start gardens, plant-based recipe books, etc. If not donated, the funds would go towards paying for the space and chefs time. I was inspired by the store that Jamie Oliver setup in his documentary so maybe down the line we could have a dedicated space for cooking classes.

Our schedules are becoming exponentially more chaotic every day with never-ending task-list and only a few breaks in our schedules that allow us to get outside or hit the gym. This idea aims to simplify the chaos by allowing members to simply log in on a website or their smartphone app and create publicly available events for all to see. Users can setup a pick-up soccer game with a time and location, or a long run with a starting point and publish the event for anyone interested in joining. Users can also privately specify workout buddies and times so that someone is always giving you that extra encouragement. The funds provided by GOOD will allow app/website development, and for marketing to communities of all sizes, everywhere.

The Albert L. Scott Public Library will partner with Kids First Awareness 21st Century Community Learning Center in Alabaster, AL weekly for a free, two hour, early afternoon summer program. It's for all of the kids at the center (about 20) and will meet 12noon to 2pm beginning in June. Each session will have a theme and the funds will help pay for the chef, groceries, and the trainer as well as aprons, a few cooking utensils, and journals and pens that the kids can keep. The kids will read library books (cook books and fiction) that go with the various themes. Time management will be: 30 minutes for each segment: stories/reading, movement, cooking/reading, eating/journaling.

Wellness day for Parents, Students, Staff & Local Media: 1) Organic Seed Farm Program: $100. Kids get their hands dirty as they plant seeds & hand-pluck veggies to be prepared in deliciously easy cooking classes with Dr. Brodsky. Videos/pics will be taken & edited into a music video & online recipes. Seeds: Eggplant, Broccoli, Zucchini, Carrots & tons more! 2) Vitamix: $400.00 to blend creative smoothies; freshly picked veggies blend perfectly to create hypoallergenic meals for kids who are picky eaters. 3) Magic Bullet: $50.00 to mix nuts, make homemade guacamole or humus and healthier side dishes. 4) Healthy gluten/dairy-free LaraBars: $250.00. 5)Super Sprowtz 'Vegucation': Superhero Vegetable Puppet show: $200.00. Grand total: $1,000.00!

2,180 miles = 2,180 dedications = 2,180 acts of kindness that will touch thousands of people and change lives. 50% of the funds we receive will be donated to local and regional charities while the rest of the funds will go to support our new and growing organization, and will help us to continue sharing our story with colleges and high schools. Making a dedication on the Walk4Good website is free. We ask people to tell us who inspires them and why we should walk a mile in that person's honor (can be living or deceased). In return, we only ask that you go out into your life and perform an act of kindness for someone else. Founder Christine Baker and her dog will take 6 months to complete this epic journey.

We want to pair up child care providers with mentor Master Gardener and Master Food Safety Adviser volunteers. We have a large pool of trained volunteers capable of offering experience hands-on-assistance to providers that have the desire to use Gardening as part of their program for the children they care for and the parents they work with. We would recruit providers and match them with volunteers. From sowing sees to harvesting the volunteers will work lp them with the providers and children to learn how to garden and include fresh produce into their diets. Volunteers will work with the providers and children throughout the season to help them identify weeds and troubleshoot. Children will then learn to add veggies into their meals.

LiveFit Revolution is a registered 501c3 non-profit charity that offers a free-of-charge fitness & nutrition program for people truly committed to a healthier lifestyle. We eliminate all of the obstacles that stand between you & your fitness goals. Last year, hundreds of people got amazing results by following our 2011 series of live workouts. This $1000 grant will allow us to start our 2012 live workouts, which means we'll be helping thousands new people start their own weight-loss journey. In addition to the live workouts & nutrition plans, we give them all the love and support they need to achieve life-changing results. And all we ask for, is their personal commitment.

The GOOD Maker grant would allow Healthy Living, Inc. to provide vegetarian cooking demonstrations based upon winter season, locally grown produce, as well as lead discussions on vegetarian meal planning on a budget. Cooking with Local Produce: Eating Healthy Vegetarian on a Budget will take place at the 5th annual Rooting DC Urban Gardening Forum held on FEBRUARY 18, 2012. Issues related to creating both a balanced and healthy vegetarian diet are extremely important to this audience, particularly for those who use urban gardens as the primary fresh food source for lower-income communities. The cooking demo will emphasize seasonal produce, and include the making of a delicious (and nutritious!) vegetarian meal.Samples for all!

Let's play together in New York! Children in low-income communities have fewer opportunities to be active and play outdoors. The only consistent time available for many is at school recess. We'll train and bring playful adults role models to six Brooklyn schools to build a healthy community. Children will learn new games and see their elders happy, running and playing. With $1,000, we can provide 150 balls, 50 jump ropes, 200 cones, and pay for volunteer paperwork (finger prints and TB tests). Let's bring more adults to school playgrounds and get thousands of kids active. Not only will these adults be active, but kids and adults will work together to build a sustainable active, healthy community.

The funds would be used to buy groceries for the course and provide each student with a custom bag of recipes and enough food for a week's worth of meals. This grant will allow us to contribute local and organic food to the program and introduce cooking in a fun, healthy and cost effective way to the at-risk youth of Los Angeles. Students will also learn knife skills and how to properly read ingredient labels. The program will commence in the spring of 2012 at the Glassell Park Rec Center. The 6 week course will meet once a week for 2.5 hours. We will provide chefs and nutritionists so the students have all the tools they need at the end of the course to share what they have learned with their families and continue their culinary education.