The Cooper Institute
NFL Charities Awards $1.8 Million to the Cooper Institute's FITNESSGRAM
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, December 28th, 2009
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. Data will be collected from student fitness assessments over the course of three years to form a youth longitudinal study tracking health-related fitness results and analyzing how best to...
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