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Application Deadline Looms for $675,000 in Community Program Grants from The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living
Grants to fund youth-focused and community based tobacco prevention programs across Louisiana
New Orleans, May 4, 2006 The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living (TFL) seeks community based and youth-focused organizations to apply for Community Program Grants in amounts up to $25,000. Grant recipients will be required to implement one of three Evidence Based Intervention (EBI) programs that focus on preventing youth from becoming tobacco users in addition to supporting programmatic events and coalition activities at the regional level in accordance with the TFLs goals and objectives. The project period for Community Program Grants is one year and will begin July 1, 2006.
Community Program Grants are part of the campaigns broad reaching effort to empower communities to reduce the toll of tobacco use, says Dr. Charles Brown, Chairman of the TFL Steering Committee. By engaging partners at the regional level, we can raise awareness of the health effects of secondhand smoke, reduce youth initiation of tobacco use, and ultimately, save lives.
To learn more and download the application for Community Program Grants offered by The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living, visit www.tobaccofreeliving.org. The deadline for submission of completed Community Program Grant applications is May 22, 2006 at 4pm. For information about Community Program Grants, call Kesia Walker, New Orleans Area Regional Coordinator of the Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living, at 504.349.8802 or via email at kewalker@lphi.org.
The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living provides statewide coordination of existing tobacco control initiatives, funds innovative community programs for tobacco control, and develops statewide media campaigns to help reduce the excessive burden of tobacco use on the states resources and improve the overall health and quality of life. TFL also funds the Louisiana Tobacco Quitline, 1(800) QUIT-NOW. For more information on creating a smoke-free environment where you live, work and play, visit www.tobaccofreeliving.org. For help quitting, call 1(800) QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669).
