About Us
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is a partnership between the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation. We have come together to fight one of our nation’s leading health threats – childhood obesity.
Along with our co-leader Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and American Heart Association President Dan Jones, the Alliance is working nationally to create awareness and real solutions to the childhood obesity epidemic.
Our Mission
To eliminate childhood obesity and to inspire all young people in the United States to develop lifelong, healthy habits.
Our Goals
The goal of the Alliance is to stop the nationwide increase in childhood obesity by 2010 and to empower kids nationwide to make healthy lifestyle choices.
The Alliance will positively affect the places that can make a difference to a child’s health: homes, schools, restaurants, doctor’s offices, and the community.
Our Programs
Healthy Schools Program
- Increasing opportunities for students to exercise and play
- Putting healthy foods and beverages in vending machines and cafeterias
- Providing resources for teachers and staff to become healthy role models
Learn More About the Healthy Schools Program
Industry Program
Kids Movement
Healthcare Program
Our Founders
William J. Clinton Foundation
“The Alliance for a Healthier Generation can help turn young people's lives around and give them hope for a healthier future.”- President Clinton
Through the William J. Clinton Foundation, President Clinton promotes the values of fairness and opportunity for all. His vision is the Foundation's mission: to strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence. Together with the generosity of citizens and volunteers, President Clinton and the Foundation are vigorously working to advance those principles that move us beyond differences to a common future of shared responsibility, shared benefits, and shared values.
Learn more about the William J. Clinton Foundation:http://www.clintonfoundation.org
American Heart Association
"More and more kids are being diagnosed with adult diseases like high blood pressure and type II diabetes, but it doesn’t have to be that way. The Alliance is working to ensure that all kids have healthy futures."- Robert Eckel, MD, Immediate Past President of the American Heart Association
Founded in 1924, the American Heart Association today is the nation's oldest and largest voluntary health organization dedicated to reducing disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke. These diseases, America's No. 1 and No. 3 killers, claim more than 910,000 lives a year. To fight them, the association supports research, professional and public education, advocacy and community service programs to help all Americans live longer, healthier lives.
Learn more about the American heart Association:http://www.americanheart.org.
Our Partners
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The nation’s leading health foundation dedicated exclusively to improving the health and health care of Americans awarded the Alliance $8 million to support its innovative Healthy Schools Program.
Learn more about the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:http://www.rwjf.org/index.jsp
Nickelodeon
The Alliance and the number one kids' brand, Nickelodeon, have joined forces through its national "Let’s Just Play" pro-social campaign that reaches kids through all media platforms and inspires them to take charge of their health and lead their own "Go Healthy" movement.
Learn more about theLet’s Just Play Go Healthy Challenge
Job Openings
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