Mini Grants

Fall 2021 reACT Mini-Grant Awards

We challenged you to DREAM BIG and submit your most innovative and inspiring ideas for student-led tobacco prevention activities and events in your community. You delivered!

After a competitive review process, we are pleased to announce the winners of our Fall 2021 reACT Mini-Grants. This year, we awarded over $13,000 across six different counties throughout the state.

Join us in cheering for the success of each project and read about the winning ideas to envision how you’ll use the reACT Mini-Grant to fight corporate tobacco in your community next year.

Fairfield reACT Coalition

• Project Topic: Vaping Prevention Campaign
  • Grant proceeds will fund two youth-led art/activism events. These presentations will educate the community around the dangers of vaping and recruit new reACTors to lend their voice against Big Tobacco.
  • In October, reACTors will orchestrate a window-painting competition for junior high students. They will fill the windows of downtown businesses with colorful anti-vaping messages visible to the entire community.
  • March, reACTors will implement a “chalk the walk” event highlighting the dangers of vaping and emphasizing clean, healthy air.
  • Awarded: $1,300

Liberty County reACT Crew

• Project Topic: Vaping Prevention Campaign
  • The Liberty County reACT Crew will plan, prepare, and implement youth-led presentations around Point of Sale Marketing, E-cigarette, and JUULing to administrators, staff, and students within local schools and community groups.
  • Awarded: $1,500

Lake County Youth

• Project Topic: Truth About Vaping Campaign
  • Mini-grant will fund materials and resources for reACTors to plan and implement a multi-media vaping prevention campaign.
    • Paid media will include billboards, PSA with local radio, and social media spots (with boosts).
  • Awarded: $4,000

Lewis & Clark County Youth

• Project Topic: Vaping Prevention Campaign & Days of Action Events
  • The health departments will sponsor art activism for students in Broadwater and Lewis and Clark Counties. The winning entry or entries is selected to inform a youth-empowerment quit-vaping social media campaign.
  • Funds will also support one Tobacco Day of Action.
  • Awarded: $4,000

Carbon County reACT Coalition

• Project Topic: Day of Action Activities & Events
  • Project Focus: Highlight the deceptive practices of big tobacco, the dangers of flavored products, and awareness around point-of-sale advertising. ReACTors will boost a year of activities and events around annual Tobacco Days of Action.
  • ReACTors will boost Red Ribbon week activities for 100 community members (parents and children).
  • A community-wide Turkey Trot fun run to raise awareness around “The Great American Smokeout.”
    • ReACTors will provide information about the hazards of e-cigarettes and flavored nicotine products for the 150-200 participants (20% of the participants will be aged 13 to 18).
    • The Montana Tobacco Quitline is promoted on shirts for all participants.
• Through with Chew Week in February will feature youth coalition “heart walls” in school hallways.
  • • The hearts will have messages about alternatives to using tobacco, drugs, and alcohol.
    • Participants will receive SWAG featuring the reACT and Quit Line logo and education about the dangers of flavored spit tobacco products.
• ReACTors will participate in the Red Lodge “Earth Day Clean Up” in April, emphasizing tobacco and alcohol litter. Funds will be used to provide gloves and trash bags.  ReACT SWAG and treats will be provided for all participants.
• Awarded: $2,500

Congratulations to our winners!  Check back in March to learn the outcomes of each mini-grant project from the Fall 2021 Winners!

Get CA$H for reACTivisms!

reACT provides mini-grants for tobacco prevention at the community level throughout Montana. If you’re reACTing, you can apply! Currently, we support student-led activities and projects in the following areas:

• Tobacco Product Prevention Campaigns
  • Option 1: Cessation Promotion
  • Option 2: Difference between Commercial & Traditional Tobacco in the American Indian Community
  • Option 3: Point of Sale
  • Option 4: Inclusion of E-cigarettes in the Clean Indoor Air Act (CIAA)
• Days of Action
• Tobacco-Free Events

What can you do with a mini-grant?

• Harms of Vaping Instagram Post Competition
• Park Clean Up
• Truth About Vaping Billboard Competition
• Vaping Awareness Garbage decals
• Vaping Prevention Social Media Campaign

How can I apply?

To develop mini-grant applications, teens collaborate with adults (like local Tobacco Prevention Specialists) in their local areas. Applications are open to anyone in Montana, available annually, and can supplement youth tobacco prevention projects. You can request up to $4,000. It’s competitive, so make yours awesome! Applications are reviewed and winners selected. Selected applications may receive full or partial funding for their project up to $4,000.

Application Guidance

• Mini-Grant Guide

If you have any questions, please contact us.