Fit for Learning

Fit for Learning is a program provided by the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE) in cooperation with Healthy Silicon Valley that addresses the crisis of childhood obesity and is a multi-faceted initiative that will increase physical activity and encourage healthy nutrition among elementary school students in Santa Clara County. Fit for Learning addresses the environment at every level: the classroom, the school, the district and community.

Silicon ValleyBicycle Coalition

The Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition promotes the bicycle for everyday use because they see bicycling as a central solution to the environmental, health, and social problems facing our planet. As the world becomes more aware of the climate problems caused by pollution from the transportation sector, the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition points to bicycling as a very clean and healthy transportation solution. As the not-so-distant mountains gracing our horizon appear hazier every year, more and more people across both San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties are agreeing that we should focus more energy on reducing transportation emissions; however many people still hesitate before choosing their bikes for transportation in Silicon Valley. They're working to change that. Their programs encourage bicycle and motorist awareness and teach bicyclists safe traffic riding skills. We advocate for more bicycle friendly roads and connecting the trails across the region. Our volunteers re-build bicycles and offer them to children and individuals who cannot afford bicycles.

Team In Training

Team in Training (TNT) is an endurance sports training program. The program provides training to run or walk a full marathon or half marathon or participate in a triathlon, a century (100-mile) bike ride. Team members raise funds to help support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in exchange for a life changing experience, certified coaches, training clinics (specific sports, equipment, nutrition, stretching), personal fundraising Web site, support from staff and teammates, a fundraising mentor, event fees, and lodging and airfare to more than 60 accredited events in the US and abroad. The Society uses at least 74 cents of every dollar raised for cancer programs, funding research to find cures to leukemia, Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, and myeloma - the blood cancers - as well as assistance with the often overwhelming burdens faced by patients and their families currently fighting blood cancers. Since 1988, more than 340,000 volunteer participants have helped raise more than US$800 million for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, which says that TNT is the oldest and largest endurance sports training program in the world. Team in Training says that it is "about ordinary people who want to do something extraordinary for a day, helping extraordinary people who just want to feel ordinary for a day." TNT has chapters in population centers across the United States. In 2008, the year of their twentieth anniversary, TNT will train more than 30,000 runners, walkers, cyclists, triathletes and skiers who will participate in major marathons, triathlons, century rides and cross-country ski races all over the world.