Acts of Kindness, Inc.
Marietta, GA
Project Title:  Youth Empowered: “Positive Living –Stops The Killing”
Project Description:  Develop a video “Tobacco Kills”, to be used in our communities, schools, churches, mosques, temples, etc.  

American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago
Chicago, IL
Project Title:  Youth Education and Tobacco Advocacy Project
Project Description:  As part of this project, ALAMC will offer two education and advocacy training seminars to reach 75 adolescents.  Additionally, ALAMC will recruit 30 youth to participate in Advocacy Day in Springfield, Illinois on March 7, 2006. 

American Lung Association of Washington
Yakima, WA
Project Title:  Step UP!
Project Description:  Youth volunteers will be trained to assess tobacco industry marketing materials that are placed in a variety of tobacco retailers in the local neighborhood.  Youth will disseminate findings to community leaders.

Area Health Education Center, Inc.
Land O’Lakes, FL
Project Title:  Smoking Prevention ~ Social Marketing Campaign targeting African American Youth in Florida.
Project Description:  The Gulf Coast North Area Health Education Center, Inc. (GNAHEC) and Pasco County Health Department (PCHD) will team up to develop targeted and locally influential health educational materials that use locally influential role models and other influencers and develop education materials to be used for providing African-American youth tobacco prevention education in a variety of settings.

Area Substance Abuse Council
Cedar Rapids, IA
Project Title:  Getting Tough on Tobacco
Project Description:  This project will allow a group of African American students to hold a street marketing event and develop a song or rap to use in a commercial highlighting specific anti-tobacco messages to counteract the advertising by tobacco companies in the community. 

ASPIRA of Florida, Inc.
Miami, FL
Project Title:  Youth Conference for Girls – “Smoking isn’t Cool”
Project Description:  Funds will cover the cost of an additional 50 Black teen and pre-teen girls attending a year-end Youth Conference with a panel of health experts reinforcing the health risks of tobacco and how to “just say no.” This will boost attendance to a total of 200 from the 150 who attended last year. 

Boy & Girls Club of Lincoln County
North Platte, NE
Project Title:  A Reflection of African American History and the Tobacco Industry
Project Description:  The project “A Reflection of African-American History and the Tobacco Industry” will educate the community about how the tobacco industry has deliberately targeted African American youth over the decades.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County, Inc.
West Palm Beach, FL
Project Title:  UP IN SMOKE
Project Description:  The newly created “UP IN SMOKE” program will reduce our young people’s exposure to and use of cigarettes and other tobacco products by expanding knowledge and engaging them in a creative process, the goal of this program is to make it “UNCOOL” to smoke. 

City of Refuge Point of Impact
Columbus, OH
Project Title:  CEASE Friday Night
Project Description:  The following age and culturally appropriate tobacco prevention activities will be presented as CEASE Friday Night Live events:  Basketball Tournament; Talent Show; Academy Red Carpet Awards.

Community Health Education Institute
Berkeley, CA
Project Title:  Artists Resisting Tobacco
Project Description:  Youth will develop PSA videos to reach thousands of youth on the Internet and public access TV to encourage youth not to smoke and to counter pro-tobacco influences.

Concerned Citizens to Combat Cancer, Inc.
Orlando, FL
Project Title:  “We Need Our Lungs to Run Tobacco Usage Prevention & Education Poster Campaign 2007”
Project Description:  “We Need Our Lungs to Run Tobacco Usage Prevention & Education Poster Campaign 2007” winners will be made available in digital format to use as screen savers on computers and cellular phones. 

Family Resources, Inc. and The Tobacco Free Coalition of Pinellas County
Pinellas Park, FL
Project Title:  Second Hand Smoke Prevention
Project Description:  Middle and high school youth in two schools in south Pinellas County will conduct a Second Hand Smoke (SHS) education campaign to obtain a commitment from 100 minority families to eliminate secondhand smoke from their home environments.

Greater Cleveland Health Education & Service Council
Cleveland, OH
Project Title:  “Dunkin on Smoke”
Project Description:  The A-TEEM and SHOUT youth advocates will host peer to peer tobacco youth empowerment workshops in collaboration with a community basketball game.  The students will then create an arts-based anti-tobacco presentation to be presented and videotaped at half-time. 

H.E.A.R.T. Coalition, Inc. (Health Education Awareness & Research on Tobacco)
Atlanta, GA
Project Title:  First Annual Fulton County Tobacco Control Youth Summit
Project Description:  Funding will assist with underwriting the First Annual Tobacco Control Youth Summit “Post-Summit” costs such as: training youth to conduct tobacco prevention/cessation workshops and to make Tobacco Free Schools presentations to the local Boards of Education. 

Pendleton Foundation for Black History and Culture
Pendleton, SC
Project Title:  Project Y.2.T.D (Youth Talk Through Drama)
Project Description:  Through collaborative efforts, Project Y.2.T.D. will take preventative measures via drama and arts to teach youth about the dangers of smoking and tobacco use, prevention of drugs and alcohol abuse, and the importance of education and staying in school.

Positive Perspective Mentors & Educational Services (PPMES)
Houston, TX
Project Title:  “Don’t Choke: Your Life Is On The Line”
Project Description:  The project will culminate with a theatrical presentation by youth to be presented to other students and parents.

St. Galilee Outreach Ministry, Inc.
Sparta, GA
Project Title:  The Hancock County Kick Butts Campaign
Project Description:  Students will use their talents to create 30 minute television show including PSAs, cheerleading act, dance, rap music and feature poster winners as part of a “Kick Butts” campaign. 

The Richard Glover All Access to Life Foundation
Jersey City, NJ
Project Title:  “Don’t Chew It or Light It, It’s Dangerous to Try It!”
Project Description:  Students in grades 5 through 8 will be invited to submit a rap, poem or essay on the dangers of the usage of tobacco products to a writing contest.  Winners will have an opportunity to film their performances for additional presentations.

The Urban League of Long Island, Inc.
Central Islip, NY
Project Title:  “No Butts” Project – A Life Skills Component of the Liberty Partnerships Program
Project Description:  The “No Butts” Project will serve to expand existing life skills curriculum components.  Through a creative mix of poignant informational speakers, tours of local cardiology wards, and a youth-lead, school-based marketing campaign (culminating in “No Butts” Day), our project seeks to positively impact upon the beliefs and actions of African-American youth as it pertains to tobacco prevention, cessation, and education. 

Winton Woods Community Coalition
Greenhills, OH
Project Title:  UNTWISTING THE TALE -THE TRUTH ABOUT TOBACCO
Project Description:  The “Untwisting the Tale - The Truth about Tobacco” project is a three-part youth-led program led by teen task force members.  The three parts are:  1) Participant Recruitment 2) Participant Training and 3) Youth Advocacy through grassroots media initiatives.