Taking a Multisector Approach to Ending the Obesity Crisis and Building a Healthier Future in America

Obesity rates have tripled in the past 30 years, a trend that means, for the first time in our history, American children are predicted to live a shorter life than the generations before them. But it’s not too late.

The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) is working to end the childhood obesity crisis by making the healthy choice the easy choice for busy parents and families, and then working to increase consumer demand for those healthier options. Childhood obesity is more than a health issue. It’s an economic issue, a work productivity issue, an achievement issue and a national security issue.

PHA was founded in 2010 in conjunction with—but independent from Let’s Move!, whose honorary chair is Michelle Obama. PHA brings together public, private and nonprofit leaders to improve the supply of, and generate demand for, healthier options. Most importantly, PHA ensures that commitments made are commitments kept by working with unbiased, third parties to monitor and publicly report on the progress our 225 partners are making—showing everyone what can be achieved when we all work together. Join the movement by visiting our website, www.ahealthieramerica.org.

Join PHA May 10-12, 2017 to Make the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice for All

PHA’s signature event, the Building a Healthier Future Summit (May 10-12, 2017), provides a unique opportunity for those in the private sector to sit with their nonprofit, academic and government counterparts to address an issue critical to the future of this country’s health and well-being. Attendees walk away with tangible, actionable solutions that will indeed help PHA to make the healthy choice the easy choice for all Americans, regardless of where they live, work or play. 

As a corporate sponsor or individual attendee, you can be part of PHA’s mission to end the childhood obesity crisis within a generation. To learn more, visit www.ahealthieramerica.org/summit. 

Our thanks to Partnership for a Healthier America for sharing their mission and impact with us.  You can learn more about their work by visiting their website at ahealthieramerica.org. To support their efforts, please donate to Partnership for a Healthier America through your company's workplace giving program. If your company would like to start a workplace giving program to support nonprofits like Partnership for a Healthier America, click here. We have a portfolio of solutions designed to help large and small organizations give back to the causes they care about.