American Legacy Foundation Announces New Small Innovative Grants As part of its Small Innovative Grants (SIG) program, the American Legacy Foundation recently announced awards of more than $1.1 million to 15 organizations to support their progressive work in tobacco control. Since September 2000, the foundation's SIG program has awarded more than $9 million to 88 organizations working in tobacco control. The funds will assist these programs for one year. Projects undertaken by these grantees include the following: The Children's Health Fund (New York, N.Y.) — $100,000 — The New York Children's Health Project Smoking Cessation Program goal is to decrease homeless children's exposure to secondhand smoke. Howard Brown Health Center (Chicago, Ill.) — $100,000 — Put it OUT! is tailoring smoking cessation services to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gendered (LGBT) community. The goal of this effort is to recruit more participants into a Put it OUT! cessation program. Vermont Department of Health (Burlington, Vt.) — $100,000 — The Vermont Tobacco Control Program plans to enlist 18-24 year-olds who are not enrolled in higher education into tobacco cessation, prevention and education interventions. The Osborne Association, Inc. (Long Island City, N.Y.) — $100,000 — This criminal justice system tobacco education and smoking cessation program will support a quit line for individuals in the New York State Correctional system. Korean Resource Center (Ellicott City, Md.) — $100,000 — Moms Against Smoking: Cessation and Intervention for Young Adult Korean American Males will empower mothers to act as health advocates to encourage their sons to quit smoking. Rural Alaska Community Action Program, Inc. (Anchorage, Alaska) — $99,984 — The Community Wellness Tobacco Project will create local support networks with activities including educational outreach, referral to smoking cessation resources and social support. Oregon Health & Science University Smoking Cessation Center (Portland, Ore.) — $99,562 — Bringing Everyone Along: Reaching Smokers with Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders will collect data on smoking cessation strategies to create a best practices guide and provide training. The goal is to disseminate the guide to programs in 80 percent of states. Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pa.) — $94,122 — Drexel University's Young Men's Tobacco Project intends to learn about smoking attitudes and behaviors of young men who are not in a college setting in order to develop quit smoking interventions appropriate for this population. Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (Nashville, Tenn.) — $90,000 — TN TXT 2 QUIT: Impact of Cell Phone Text Messages on Smoking Cessation Rates Among Childbearing-age Women is a 12-week intervention that will be implemented in a diverse, inner-city population of 100 women. Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center (Park Ridge, Ill.) — $64,427 — Smoking Cessation in American Sign Language (ASL) for Deaf Populations will develop two multi-media quit smoking programs for deaf adults. University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa) — $99,899 — Building an LGBT-Sensitive Model for Smoking Cessation Services is a multi-faceted project that will seek to reduce disparities in access to quit smoking resources for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gendered community in Iowa. JRI Research and Training Institute, Inc. — (Boston, Mass.) — $68,000 — Tobacco and Literacy Education in New Hampshire: A Pilot Program for Young Adults will develop a series of tobacco education lessons for young adults that will fit into the Adult Basic Education programs in New Hampshire. ICD (New York, N.Y.) — $49,952 — Smoke Signals: Warning Young Adults About Tobacco aims to prevent tobacco use among young adults with serious persistent mental illness (SPMI). The latest SIG awards are part of the American Legacy Foundation's ongoing commitment to support small innovative programs and research demonstration projects that address the foundation's goals to arm all young people with the knowledge and tools to reject tobacco, and to eliminate disparities in access to tobacco prevention and cessation services.