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

• Alignment with the Foundation's cornerstones.
• Integrated: Programs take an integrated approach to both physical literacy and health education.
  • Physical literacy encourages youth to move their bodies with competence and confidence in a wide variety of physical activities in multiple environments that benefit the healthy development of the whole person.
  • Health education supports youth in obtaining, processing and understanding the fundamentals needed to make health decisions that support good physical health.
• Youth and Family Driven: Programs must be deeply informed and driven by youth and can range from being youth-developed to creating spaces for robust youth and family input.
• Holistic: Programs address factors that create barriers to good physical health, such as confidence and self-efficacy. Programs intentionally build positive associations with physical activity and movement and other factors addressing body image and self-esteem.
• Culturally Responsive: Programs must be inclusive of participant’s cultural identity, language and traditions while leveraging youth's strengths and building on the assets of the communities served.
• Welcoming Environment: Programs create a welcoming environment for youth living at the intersections of their identities and lived experiences. 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, and other issues that don’t significantly center the physical health and physical wellbeing of youth
• Programs that do not require ongoing participation for a specific duration (e.g. drop-in programs)
• Programs focused on respite care only
• Programs centered on competition or whose primary outcome is focused on training toward individual athletic ability, progression and success
• Organizational staff training or development

Agency: refers to one's independent capability or ability to act on one's will.

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: refers to a diverse group of chronic conditions due to mental or physical impairments that arise before adulthood.

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, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

Physical disability: refers to a condition that substantially limits one or more basic physical activities in life.

Physical health: refers to understanding how your body works and developing habits that enhance your body's ability to function.

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

• Physical literacy (active lifestyle and physical fitness): the ability to move your body with competence and confidence in a wide variety of physical activities in multiple environments that benefit the healthy development of the whole person.
• Health education (understanding health information): the ability of individuals to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions (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: refers to each person's ability to make choices and manage their own life.

Self-efficacy: refers to an individual's confidence in their ability to complete a task or achieve a goal.

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