Since 2011, Fit Kids has served thousands of young children across the country, often in areas where opportunities for sports and physical activities are scarce. Through our growing network of partners, we continue to introduce children to physical activity and movement so they can enjoy its many benefits, including:
Fit Kids helps children improve their cardiovascular fitness, strength, flexibility, and overall physical condition.
Children participating in Fit Kids report increased self-esteem, better mood regulation, and reduced symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Fit Kids encourages lifelong habits of health and fitness, including positive choices related to nutrition, exercise, and wellness.
Fit Kids helps children understand the connection between their physical health and their concentration, memory, and academic performance.
Fit Kids works to ensure that all children, regardless of their socioeconomic background, have the chance to participate in structured physical activities.
Fit Kids helps children develop teamwork, leadership, and social interaction skills.
Fit Kids conducts surveys over the course of each school year to collect data from our partners in order to measure our impact on students. Based on our year end survey in May 2024, we collected the following data that provides a snapshot of how and when our program is used.
* Partners may use Fit Kids both during the school day and after school.
In fiscal year 2024, Fit Kids made the following impact on student’s physical and mental health:
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One of the key physical and mental health benefits of a sports and fitness practice is the way it brings you into community, which then helps heighten those benefits. Tony Sanneh — former professional and international soccer player and founder of The Sanneh Foundation — explores how that happens.
Ashley Hunter, founder and executive director of Fit Kids, a nonprofit dedicated to helping all children experience the physical and mental health benefits of exercise in 175 sites nationwide and in Mexico.
Michael Granville was a track and field prodigy in his youth. The U.S. high school record for the 800 meters, which he set in 1996, still stands. Today, his G:Fit Boot Camps help people of all ages, shapes, and sizes go the distance in their fitness journeys.
Heather Mitts Feeley, three-time Olympic Soccer Gold Medalist, shares her perspectives on youth health and fitness, including what went into her drive to Olympic stardom.
One of the key physical and mental health benefits of a sports and fitness practice is the way it brings you into community, which then helps heighten those benefits. Tony Sanneh — former professional and international soccer player and founder of The Sanneh Foundation — explores how that happens.
Ashley Hunter, founder and executive director of Fit Kids, a nonprofit dedicated to helping all children experience the physical and mental health benefits of exercise in 175 sites nationwide and in Mexico.
Fit Kids is entering into the widest-ranging school district partnership in the organization’s history, encompassing 28 schools within the Sacramento City Unified School District. All told, (3,940 summer & 3,406 school year) SCUSD students will receive the Fit Kids structured physical fitness and mindfulness program.
Non-profit’s landmark benefit concert featuring Grammy-award-winning Mexican-American rock band Los Lobos. The high-energy event will take place at Menlo Park’s Guild Theatre on Thursday, February 29, 2024.
Dr. Amy Bantham recently interviewed Ashley Hunter as a guest on the Move to Live More podcast. On the episode titled “Learning the Language of Movement” Ashley covered everything from the Fit Kids origin story to addressing the fitness opportunity gap.
We are proud to announce that Fit Kids is a winner of The Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation’s 2023 Local Impact Grants Challenge. The Foundation is granting nearly $2.5 million this year to non-profits that are strengthening their communities.
Fit Kids is entering into the widest-ranging school district partnership in the organization’s history, encompassing 28 schools within the Sacramento City Unified School District. All told, (3,940 summer & 3,406 school year) SCUSD students will receive the Fit Kids structured physical fitness and mindfulness program.
Non-profit’s landmark benefit concert featuring Grammy-award-winning Mexican-American rock band Los Lobos. The high-energy event will take place at Menlo Park’s Guild Theatre on Thursday, February 29, 2024.
