Keeping Minnesotans active creates healthier communities.
The Center for Prevention helps community organizations in Minnesota create dynamic, safe spaces for physical activity. Active Living for All funding supports communities as they engage residents and improve active-living options for everyone.
Recent initiatives in around the state have focused on enhancing access to and the connectivity of parks, walking trails, and bike paths, and other goals that bolster Minnesotans’ opportunities to stay active.
Active Living for All grants funded:
- District Councils Collaborative of St. Paul and Minneapolis — a collective effort across the Twin Cities to address pedestrian accessibility and safety.
- Get Fit Itasca — building and promoting an active transportation infrastructure to connect Itasca Community College with surrounding communities in Itasca County.
- Health in the Park — engaging citizens to promote activity by increasing access, interconnectedness and safety in St. Louis Park.
- Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition — a project to create at least 30 additional miles of protected bikeways in Minneapolis.
- North Minneapolis — planning and community engagement toward the creation of a greenway in this park-gap area of Minneapolis.
- Live Healthy Red Wing — strategies to improve the connectivity and safety of neighborhood parks, trails and bike paths in Red Wing.
- Sawtooth Mountain Clinic, Grand Marais — efforts to think short- and long-term about safe and enjoyable opportunities for Cook County residents to bike and walk.
- Women on Bikes — activation of a coalition of spokeswomen to speak up for safer biking infrastructure in St. Paul.
- Saint Paul Smart Trips and Kitty Andersen Youth Science Center — support for a youth-led initiative in the Frogtown area of St. Paul to address some of the neighborhood’s barriers to safe walking and biking.