Empowering Tobacco Prevention Efforts in Tribal Communities
Can you apply?
This grant is for tribal governmental organizations and their partners working on tobacco prevention in tribal communities. Applicants must focus on community engagement, policy development, and one or more of these goals: limiting tobacco marketing, reducing secondhand smoke exposure, decreasing tobacco availability, or promoting cessation. Work plans should build tribal capacity, mobilize community engagement, and implement evidence-based tobacco prevention and reduction interventions.
Eligible applicants include tribal nations, tribal organizations, and entities working directly with tribal communities. Organizations must have or develop partnerships with tribal governmental bodies. The grant operates in California and focuses specifically on serving tribal populations.
Applicants must address at least two core components: Community Engagement and Organizing, and Policy Development and Implementation. Activities should align with goals like restricting tobacco promotion, protecting from smoke exposure, reducing product availability, or supporting quit efforts.
This grant is for tribal governmental organizations and their partners working on tobacco prevention in tribal communities. Applicants must focus on community engagement, policy development, and one or more of these goals: limiting tobacco marketing, reducing secondhand smoke exposure, decreasing tobacco availability, or promoting cessation. Work plans should build tribal capacity, mobilize community engagement, and implement evidence-based tobacco prevention and reduction interventions.
Eligible applicants include tribal nations, tribal organizations, and entities working directly with tribal communities. Organizations must have or develop partnerships with tribal governmental bodies. The grant operates in California and focuses specifically on serving tribal populations.
Applicants must address at least two core components: Community Engagement and Organizing, and Policy Development and Implementation. Activities should align with goals like restricting tobacco promotion, protecting from smoke exposure, reducing product availability, or supporting quit efforts.
Program description
Applicants are required to work on 1) Community Engagement and Organizing, and 2) Policy Development and implementation. 1. Limit Tobacco Promoting Influences. Efforts supporting this goal seek to curb advertising and marketing tactics used to promote tobacco produces and their use, counter glamorization of tobacco use through entertainment and social media, exposure tobacco industry practices, and hold tobacco companies accountable for the impact of their products on people and the environment. 2. Reduce Exposure to Secondhand Smoke, Tobacco Smoke Residue, Tobacco Waste and Other Tobacco Products. Efforts supporting this goal address the impact of tobacco use on people, other living organisms, and the physical environment resulting from exposure to Secondhand Smoke, tobacco smoke residue, tobacco waste, and other non-combustible tobacco products. 3. Reduce the Availability of Tobacco. Efforts supporting this goal address the sale, distribution, sampling, or furnishing of tobacco products, and other nicotine containing products that are not specifically approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for nicotine or tobacco Dependence. 4. Promote Tobacco Cessation. Efforts supporting this goal improve awareness, availability, and access to cessation assistance via Kick It California, the health and behavioral care systems, and the community. Work plan features include Building capacity and skills among tribal members and staff employed by tribal governmental organizations to implement tobacco use prevention and reduction interventions and provide health education services. Mobilizing and engaging community residents and tribal governmental organizations to engage in tobacco use prevention and cessation and support policy and system changes. Designing, supporting, adopting, implementing, and evaluating tribal policy and system change campaigns that seek to prevent and reduce tobacco use.
Who can apply
Eligible applicants
Demographic focus
Details
This grant is for tribal governmental organizations and their partners working on tobacco prevention in tribal communities. Applicants must focus on community engagement, policy development, and one or more of these goals: limiting tobacco marketing, reducing secondhand smoke exposure, decreasing tobacco availability, or promoting cessation. Work plans should build tribal capacity, mobilize community engagement, and implement evidence-based tobacco prevention and reduction interventions.
Eligible applicants include tribal nations, tribal organizations, and entities working directly with tribal communities. Organizations must have or develop partnerships with tribal governmental bodies. The grant operates in California and focuses specifically on serving tribal populations.
Applicants must address at least two core components: Community Engagement and Organizing, and Policy Development and Implementation. Activities should align with goals like restricting tobacco promotion, protecting from smoke exposure, reducing product availability, or supporting quit efforts.
How to apply
Application links
Required documents
- Application form or cover letter
- Work plan describing activities aligned with program goals
- Community engagement and partnership documentation
- Policy development strategy or timeline
- Organizational capacity statement
- Budget and budget narrative
Program contact
- 📧 CTPPCompetitiveGrants@cdph.ca.gov
- 📞 1-916-449-5500
FAQ
Who is eligible to apply for this grant?
Tribal governmental organizations and their partners working on tobacco prevention in tribal communities. You must have or develop partnerships with tribal governmental bodies.
What are the main focus areas?
Community engagement, policy development, and one of four goals: limiting tobacco marketing, reducing secondhand smoke exposure, decreasing tobacco availability, or promoting cessation.
What must a work plan include?
Building tribal capacity and skills for prevention interventions, mobilizing community residents and tribal government partners, and designing or implementing tribal policy and system changes around tobacco use.
Where can this grant be used?
This grant is specific to tribal communities in California. Activities should directly benefit tribal populations.
What is the typical award amount?
The total funding pool is $4.6 million. Specific award amounts and number of awards are not specified in available materials.
💡 Tips for applicants
- Build strong partnerships with tribal governmental organizations before applying. Demonstrate existing relationships or a clear plan to develop them.
- Align your work plan clearly with at least two required components: Community Engagement and Organizing, and Policy Development and Implementation.
- Include concrete capacity-building strategies for tribal staff and community members. Show how you'll develop sustainable local expertise.
- Use data about tobacco use impacts in your target tribal community. Reference local health disparities and community priorities.
- Emphasize policy and systems change outcomes, not just individual education. Frame activities to create lasting structural change.
⚠️ Common mistakes
Applications fail when partnerships with tribal governmental organizations are weak or unclear. Applicants must demonstrate genuine tribal engagement, not just serving tribal populations from outside. Applications lose points when work plans don't clearly address both Community Engagement and Policy Development. Vague capacity-building strategies without specific tribal staff or community outcomes weaken competitiveness.
Similar grants
- OPEN 27-0343-10 FFY27 Local Agency General Non-Enforcement — Illinois Department of Transportation
- CLOSED Virginia’s Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Grant – FY26 — Virginia The Virginia Department of Historic Resources
- CLOSING SOON FY27 Housing Counseling & Education (HCE) — Virginia Housing Development Authority
- ROLLING Highly Rural Transportation FO FFY 2026 — North Dakota Veterans Affairs
- OPEN FY27 RFP REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL COMPSCS27025 Marketing and Advertising Services — Iowa Department of Health and Human Services