Active Life Movement

Allies

Our Allies, our corporate and foundation partners, help us Make the Movement! We work hand-in-hand to increase the demand for healthy and ACTIVE lifestyles and to make these lifestyles more accessible.
 

Corporate Allies

• H-E-B

  H-E-B is one of the nation’s largest independently owned food retailers serving families in Texas and Mexico with over 300 stores and 56,000 employees. H-E-B is known for its strong commitment to the communities it serves. H-E-B is showing an equally strong commitment to health and wellness through their support of the ACTIVE Life Movement and the relaunched H-E-Buddy, a line of foods and products aimed at kids with no high-fructose corn syrup or partially hydrogenated oils, as well as a restricted number of calories from fat, saturated fat and sugar.
   

• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas 

  The ACTIVE Life Movement is proud of its alliance with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX). Both are working together to inspire and empower all Texans to live healthy, ACTIVE lives. BCBSTX serves 4 million members in all 254 Texas counties, which includes employer groups, individuals and government units, providing traditional and consumer-directed health insurance products, including medical, pharmacy, dental, vision, and medical management/behavioral health services.
   

• American College of Sports Medicine
  

  The American College of Sports Medicine (“ACSM”) is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. More than 35,000 international, national, and regional members and certified professionals are dedicated to advancing and integrating scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise science and sports medicine.  The ACTIVE Life Movement is honored to partner and work with ACSM on our shared cause of helping individuals to live longer, more productive lives.  Both organizations are committed to helping people and places create and sustain healthy change, because healthy people and communities are the cornerstones of a thriving American society and economy.
   

• Waste Management

  Waste Management (WM), based in Houston, Texas, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste management services in North America. As America’s leading recycler, WM has supported research and preventative programming demonstrating that health and environmental causes are intrinsically connected. In working with ACTIVE Life, Waste Management has demonstrated its commitment to this connection by supporting ACTIVE Life’s Community Challenge Program and the Honor Zone of the ACTIVE Life Tour.
   

Foundation Allies

• Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

  The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation works to transform the lives of children living in urban poverty through better health and education. The Foundation is supporting the ACTIVE Life Movement and has been instrumental in our ability to launch the Community Challenge Program.
   

• Dell Foundation

  The Dell Foundation gives back to the communities where their employees live and work, making meaningful contributions to their neighbors. The Dell Foundation has generously supported the development of the ACTIVE Life Movement, including the upcoming ACTIVE-8 Program and the newly launched Community Challenge Program.
   

• St. David's Foundation

The St. David's Foundation provides financial support to those who serve children, the elderly, the ill and the homeless and invests in care for the underserved and uninsured through hospital care in the six St. David's hospitals and primary care in local safety-net clinics. The St. David’s Foundation supports the ACTIVE Life Movement principally through the organization’s afterschool and family-based programming in Central Texas.

 

 

Make the Movement Day Allies

Our Allies, our corporate and foundation partners, help us Make the Movement! We work hand-in-hand to increase the demand for healthy and ACTIVE lifestyles and to make these lifestyles more accessible.
 

Lead Ally

• H-E-B

  H-E-B is one of the nation’s largest independently owned food retailers serving families in Texas and Mexico with over 300 stores and 56,000 employees. H-E-B is known for its strong commitment to the communities it serves. H-E-B is showing an equally strong commitment to health and wellness through their support of the ACTIVE Life Movement and the relaunched H-E-Buddy, a line of foods and products aimed at kids with no high-fructose corn syrup or partially hydrogenated oils, as well as a restricted number of calories from fat, saturated fat and sugar.

 

Moment Allies

• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas 

  The ACTIVE Life Movement is proud of its alliance with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX). Both are working together to inspire and empower all Texans to live healthy, ACTIVE lives. BCBSTX serves 4 million members in all 254 Texas counties, which includes employer groups, individuals and government units, providing traditional and consumer-directed health insurance products, including medical, pharmacy, dental, vision, and medical management/behavioral health services.

 

• The American College of Sports Medicine
  

  The American College of Sports Medicine ("ACSM") is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. More than 35,000 international, national, and regional members and certified professionals are dedicated to advancing and integrating scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise science and sports medicine. The ACTIVE Life Movement is honored to partner and work with ACSM on our shared cause of helping individuals to live longer, more productive lives. Both organizations are committed to helping people and places create and sustain healthy change, because healthy people and communities are the cornerstones of a thriving American society and economy.

 

• American Dietetic Association
  The American College of Sports Medicine ("ACSM") is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. More than 35,000 international, national, and regional members and certified professionals are dedicated to advancing and integrating scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise science and sports medicine. The ACTIVE Life Movement is honored to partner and work with ACSM on our shared cause of helping individuals to live longer, more productive lives. Both organizations are committed to helping people and places create and sustain healthy change, because healthy people and communities are the cornerstones of a thriving American society and economy.

 

ADA is proud to be the "FUEL" ally for the ACTIVE Life Movement's 'Make the Movement Day.' We and ALM are committed to showing America the importance of eating right and exercise in leading a healthy life.

Links:

Find Out Your BMI
Understanding Your BMI
Tips for Eating Out
Stay Away From Fad Diets
Food Allergies
Sports Nutrition

 

 

Challenge Allies

• Exercise in Medicine
  

  Exercise in Medicine is a program focused on encouraging health care providers to include physical activity when designing treatment plans for patients. This program is committed to the belief that exercise and physical activity are integral for disease prevention and quality of life. Research shows that exercise has a role in the treatment and prevention of numerous chronic conditions, such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, hypertension and more. Integration of exercise counseling into the U.S. health care system has the power to significantly improve the health and quality of life of the American public.

 

• Juice Homes
  

  Juice Homes, LLC is a real estate brokerage that focuses on buying and selling residential homes in Austin, TX. Our aspiration is not to be the biggest agency, but to be the best. To us that means that no other agency will communicate with their clients as honestly, as often, and as quickly as we do. We at Juice are committed to using our brand as a platform for building community. We want it to be a force for good in Austin, and we want our clients to be our partners in building that community.

 

 

• Printbrands
  

  Printbrands™ is a 100% non-toxic apparel screen printing business with promotional product and banner & sign services. We buy apparel from companies that embrace ethical trade and support our community through a fundraising program designed for community based non-profit organization.

 

• MCH Transportation
  

  MCH Traportation is a specialized carrier and trucking fleet focused on “Dedicated Services” for a national client base. Our mission is to set the standard of performance by which all other carriers are measured. We endeavor to enhance our customers positions in the marketplace through our creative, reliable, high quality, cost effective distribution system. MCH is working with the ACTIVE Life Movement because we care about our employees and fosters a working atmosphere modeled on the principles of teamwork and community.

 

• Clear
  

  Clear is an exciting new internet service that’s as mobile as you are. In your house, in your neighborhood ---- Clear goes where your go, and works as fast on the go as it does at home. For more information in Austin, call (512)351-3304 or visit our store location at 3718 N. Lamar Blvd. Austin, TX 78705

 

 

• Virilion
  

  Virilion is a full-service interactive agency that helps major corporations, organizations, and institutions use digital media to achieve their marketing and communication goals. Virilion’s subsidiary, Promotional Commerce, provides digitally based loyalty and incentive programs to help organizations improve sales and employee performance. Its EV Healthcare partnership focuses on delivering high-value strategic, marketing and communications services to the healthcare industry, from hospitals to pharmaceutical companies.
  
  Virilion has offices in Austin, Boston, New York and Washington, DC. Since 1997, the firm has worked for clients in categories ranging from healthcare, media and entertainment, sports, food, agriculture and nutrition, public affairs, and charitable giving.
  
  Virilion was named one of Inc. Magazine’s fastest growing companies in 2007, 2008 and 2009

 

• Snap Kitchen
  

  Snap Kitchen is “fast food” for foodies. We are dedicated to bringing our customers flavorful, handcrafted food that supports our commitment to local, organic ingredients, and healthy cooking. Snap Kitchen's menu items are made fresh daily, portioned for single servings, and labeled with the full nutritional content for diet or weight control. We also offer salads tossed-to-order at our flagship locations, juices and specialty elixirs, high-energy snacks, and diet-friendly desserts. Stop by one of our convenient locations, grab your food and go, or order online for delivery or curbside pickup. 

 

 

• Philips DirectLife
  

  Modern life with all of its conveniences also has its challenges. The technology that helps us fit more into a day also renders us less physically active – especially as we spend more and more time in front of the television and the computer. Collectively, as our activity level goes down and our weight up, there are dangerous consequences: cancer and heart disease, already the two most common and deadly diseases, are on the rise.
  
  Most of us know we need to be more active, but how do we find the time, energy and motivation? Ironically, technology may just help put us on the right track. The DirectLife program, from healthcare and technology leader Philips, could be the key to figuring it all out.
  
  Every movement counts with DirectLife:
  
  DirectLife records a person’s daily movements via a discreet, wearable state-of-the-art Activity Monitor which tracks both the duration and intensity of a user’s daily activity. Information is then easily transferred in one simple step via USB to a personal web page that keeps track of progress against both daily targets and longer term goals. The program offers a number of unique features, including a personal coach to help people set balanced and achievable goals, provide individual feedback and deliver advice on how to make easy healthy lifestyle changes, some in as little as a few minutes a day.
   

 

• Jo's Coffee
  

  HOT COFFEE - GOOD FOOD - COLD BEER
  
  SOUTH CONGRESS: The original Jo's Coffee sits on the corner of James and South Congress, in the heart of the most vibrant section of South Austin. This funky little coffee shack shares a parking lot with the San Jose Hotel, the hippest hotel in town, and provides homemade baked goods, sandwiches and a wide variety of coffee drinks, both hot and iced. So after shopping up and down the avenue with your pooch, Jo's is the perfect place to rest your dogs.
  
  2ND STREET: There's a new Jo's in town. We're located in the hip and happening 2nd Street District. If you haven't made it down here, come check it out. Grab a latte and check out the shops or go catch a movie at the Alamo Drafthouse.

 

 

• The Yoga Care Foundation
  

  The Yoga Care Foundation is an Austin-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports yoga research, education, and community outreach. Its three primary objectives are to research the physiological, psychological and therapeutic effects of yoga; make yoga available to disadvantaged communities; and educate the public about the benefits of yoga. For more information about the Yoga Care Foundation, visit http://www.yogacarefoundation.org/.

 

 

• The Natural Epicurean Academy of Culinary Arts
  

  The Natural Epicurean Academy of Culinary Arts offers public classes and a professional culinary arts training school devoted to conscious cooking and a plant-based diet. Drawing upon ancient traditions and modern approaches to using whole food for healthy eating, the Natural Epicurean curriculum draws from traditional Eastern diets, including macrobiotics and ayurveda, as well as a number of Western approaches to healthy eating including vegetarian and raw foods. The programs emphasize locally available and seasonally based foods in their natural and unprocessed state with an equal emphasis on pleasing the senses and promoting health. For more information, visit www.naturalepicurean.com or call (512) 476-2276.

 

 

• Yoga Yoga
  

  Yoga Yoga , Austin’s premier source for yoga, offers five locations, over 350 classes weekly, and a full-service wellness spa. With more than 100 registered yoga teachers, Yoga Yoga provides a wide variety of yoga styles for new and continuing students, including prenatal, postnatal, and children’s yoga. Yoga Yoga Teacher Training offers a nationally recognized program with 200 and 500-hour courses approved by the Yoga Alliance. Yoga at Work specializes in bringing the benefits of yoga into the workplace. For more information, visit Yoga Yoga or call (512) 326-3900.

 

• S2SMusic.com
  

  S2SMusic.com is the home of Station To Station CDs and Bounce Beats music for physical education and recreation. We began making interval music CD's 10 years ago to help motivate and move elementary students in Brooklyn, New York. Today, over 20,000 CDs have been shipped across the United States and over 1 million students have had movement moments to our music. If you're a teacher and have one of our Station To Station CDs - please pop it in your class CD player on May 5, 2010 and help us Make the Movement! If you don't have one, go to S2SMusic.com and get one quick

 

 

 

• LatinWorks
  Getting results for our clients is what we are all about. We work hard to demystify the Hispanic market and help our clients reach this audience effectively and efficiently.

 

 

 

 

 

• Rogue Running
  

  Our mission at Rogue Running is to create an autentic community of athletes discovering a running path to a physical, mental & spiritual potential.
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• Texas Education Association
  

  The mission of the Texas Education Association is to provide leadership, guidance and resources to help schools meet the educational needs of all students. (read more about the agency)