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.

To empower North Carolinians to live healthy, physically active lifestyles.

All North Carolinians will have the knowledge, skills and opportunities to lead physically active lives.

Since 1991, the organization has worked to increase public awareness of the negative 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.

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).

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 and today is nationally recognized for its work and offers a wide variety of signature programs to get North Carolinians moving toward healthy, active lifestyles.

Our offices are located near the airport off I-40.  EXIT 284A AIRPORT BLVD.  Travel west on Airport Blvd, turn right onto PERIMETER PARK DR.  2250 Perimeter Park Dr. is on the RIGHT.