2022 Mini-Grant Winners!!
- Fairfield ReACT Coalition
- Project Topic: Vaping Prevention Campaign
- With our plan to paint windows of the businesses in our community. The paintings will feature bright colors and designs to intrigue kids to want to say no to vaping. Followed by a local chalk walk centered around an anti-vaping message as a fun competition with a prize for the junior high students. Pushing ReACT and including the junior high in activities will lead to more members in the coming years. We plan to recruit around fifty kids from the projects this year. The goal of these activities is to lower the number of young adults who vape and show the younger kids it is not a smart decision.
- Awarded: $1,300
- Liberty County reACT Crew
- Project Topic: Vaping Prevention Campaign
- The Liberty County reACT Crew would like to create a social and printed media campaign that will reach the students and staff of Chester-Joplin-Inverness Schools, the local communities, and the surrounding Hi-Line area. Content will include the harmful effects of e-cigarettes/vaping, the targeting of teens by big tobacco companies, and youth cessation. The campaign will be launched in March or April of 2022.
- Awarded: $1,500
- Lake County Youth
- Project Topic: Truth About Vaping Campaign
- Creating a media campaign featuring information on the truth about vaping and nicotine use in Middle and High schools throughout Lake County.
- Awarded: $4,000
- Lewis & Clark County Youth
- Project Topic: Vaping Prevention Campaign & Days of Action Events
- LLC & Broadwater county students will strive to increase awareness of the dangers of vaping, as well as promote cessation. The Tobacco industry has targeted youth for years and the goal is to empower youth to quit vaping and prevent the initiation of more youth. Holding the county’s annual art contest where high school students submit works of art, the winning submissions will be the ads for our vape prevention campaign.
- Awarded: $4,000
- Carbon County ReACT Coalition
- Project Topic: Day of Action Activities & Events
- Creating county-wide events for three Days of Action and an Earth Day activity. Each activity will address the deceptive practices of Big Tobacco, the dangers of flavored products and educate about Point of Sale advertising.
- Awarded: $2,500
Congratulations to our winners this year! Check back in March to see the progress of each mini-grant project from the 2022 winners!
Get CA$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
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