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American Legacy Foundation® Announces New Youth Tobacco Prevention Grantees 

The American Legacy Foundation, a national public health foundation dedicated to tobacco use prevention and cessation, has awarded more than $1.2 million in grants to 11 organizations as a part of a new grants initiative: the truth®or Consequences Youth Tobacco Prevention Grants Program. This new program, supported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will support community-based tobacco-use-prevention efforts in 18 states across the country.

The truth® or Consequences grants will engage rural and smaller communities in tobacco use prevention efforts, and supplement the truth® youth smoking prevention media campaign in underserved areas, by developing local tobacco use prevention projects relevant to 12- to 17-year-old youth. These youth-led initiatives are designed to be shared at a national level in order to create the greatest possible impact on the issue of tobacco and smoking. The program also gives each grantee the flexibility to choose and customize different tobacco use prevention strategies and methods, so long as young people remain the decision makers and the project is focused on making a lasting community change.

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