Siggi’s names winner of the 2019 Siggi Supports Entrepreneurs Contest
Allison Thirion, a Cleveland School District dietitian, will receive a $10,000 grant to support her initiative.
Siggi’s, a New York-based maker of Icelandic skyr “with simple ingredients and not a lot of sugar,” said it named a Cleveland School District dietitian, Allison Thirion, MPH, RDN, LD, the winner of its fourth annual Siggi Supports Entrepreneurs contest. Thirion will receive a $10,000 grant — the largest grant awarded by the Siggi Supports Entrepreneurs contest since the program’s inception — to support her initiative, the Nutrition Network.
The Nutrition Network will connect students in schools across the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) to credentialed experts, who will provide evidence-based nutrition education to teach students about the importance of eating healthy whole foods. CMSD has partnerships with dietetic programs at Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University, The University of Akron, Cuyahoga Community College and Marshall University that will support the Nutrition Network, Siggi’s said.