To be considered for funding, programs must meet the following criteria:

• Alignment with the Foundation's cornerstones.
• Integrated: 项目采用综合方法进行体育素养和健康教育.
  • 体育素养鼓励青少年在多种环境下的各种体育活动中有能力、有信心地活动身体，有利于整个人的健康发展.
  • Health education supports youth in obtaining, 处理和理解做出有利于身体健康的健康决定所需的基础知识.
• Youth and Family Driven项目必须深入了解并由青年推动，其范围可以从由青年开发到为青年和家庭提供强有力的投入空间.
• Holistic: Programs address factors that create barriers to good physical health, such as confidence and self-efficacy. 这些项目有意地与身体活动和运动以及其他解决身体形象和自尊的因素建立积极的十大菠菜靠谱平台.
• Culturally Responsive: Programs must be inclusive of participant’s cultural identity, 语言和传统，同时利用青年的力量，并以所服务社区的资产为基础.
• Welcoming Environment: 项目为生活在他们身份和生活经历交叉点的年轻人创造了一个温馨的环境. Examples of a welcoming environment include:
  • Youth-centered nondiscrimination statement
  • Staff that reflects the identities of youth served by the program
  • Language access in languages other than English

• Programs primarily focused on mentorship, leadership development, mental health, violence prevention, 以及其他与青少年身体健康和幸福无关的问题
• 不需要在特定时间内持续参与的项目(例如.g. drop-in programs)
• Programs focused on respite care only
• 以比赛为中心的项目，或者其主要目的是培养个人运动能力的项目, progression and success
• Organizational staff training or development

Agency指的是一个人的独立能力或按照自己的意志行事的能力.

Culturally responsive: an approach to viewing culture and identity as assets, including a person's race, ethnicity or linguistic assets, among other characteristics.

Developmental disability:指在成年前出现的由精神或身体缺陷引起的多种慢性疾病.

Holistic: refers to the recognition of the whole person-physical, mental, emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual.

Intersectionality: the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, 被认为造成重叠和相互依赖的歧视或不利制度的.

Physical disability指在生活中严重限制一项或多项基本身体活动的状况.

Physical health:指的是了解你的身体是如何工作的，并养成提高身体功能的习惯.

This body of work focuses on two components of physical health:

• 体育素养(积极的生活方式和身体健康):在多种环境中进行各种有益于整个人健康发展的体育活动的能力和信心.
• 健康教育(了解健康信息):个人获得的能力, 处理和了解作出适当卫生决定所需的基本卫生信息和服务(e).g., choices about healthy diet and nutrition).

Physical well-being: refers to the state of your physical body and how well it is operating.

Self-determination:是指每个人做出选择和管理自己生活的能力.

Self-efficacy:指个人对自己完成任务或实现目标的能力的信心.

Youth of color: Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Indigenous/Native American and multiracial.