NFL Charities, the charitable foundation of the National Football League, has awarded a three-year, $1.8 million grant to The Cooper Institute to support youth health and prevent childhood obesity as part of NFL PLAY 60.
The grant will go to The Cooper Institute’s FITNESSGRAM® program, a physical fitness assessment tool measuring student health. NFL PLAY 60 FITNESSGRAM will be made available free of charge to 1,120 schools throughout each of the 32 NFL markets.
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Schools interested in learning more about how they might be able to participate should visit http://www.nflplay60fitnessgram.com/projectOverview.cfm.
For more about Fitnessgram and The Cooper Institute, visit http://www.Fitnessgram.net/.