Be Active North Carolina, Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing physical activity levels and promoting healthy lifestyles among all North Carolinians. Since 1991, the organization has worked to increase public awareness of the effects of physical inactivity, build grassroots advocacy and volunteerism, create model statewide programs, and advocate for policies that reduce barriers and create opportunities for physical activity.

Long before it was popular, Be Active North Carolina was in the forefront building awareness about the human and financial costs of sedentary lifestyles and developing programs to combat obesity.

For the past seventeen years, the organization has raised over $16 million and grown to a staff of fourteen. Be Active North Carolina

continues to expand with a regional office on the campus of university partner Appalachian State University and programs in all 100 counties of the state.

Today, Be Active North Carolina is nationally recognized for its work and offers a wide variety of signature programs to get North Carolinians started and to keep them moving toward healthy, active lives. In 2007, Be Active North Carolina was named the nation's best statewide organization for health and physical activity by The National Association for Health and Fitness (NAHF).

To learn more, get moving to beactivenc.org.

Related Links

1. http://www.beactivenc.org