Abstract

In the summer of 2002, we each agreed to serve as members of the first National Advisory Committee (NAC) for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF’s) Active Living byDesign (ALbD) program. Two of us were serving as presidents of national nonprofits and one as president of a national consultancy. In diverse ways, we were each addressing elements of the ALbD mission in our day jobs. In this brief commentary reflecting on 9 years of activity, we note a few key successes, a few areas of challenge, and opportunity for further development and provide a summary pointing to the everprogressing, but clearly unfinished, story of the national movement for healthy people in healthy places. What attracted us to the invitation to serve on theNAC was our aspiration that ALbD would contribute to achieving three broad objectives:

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