Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States. In Hawai‘i alone, smoking claims 1,400 lives each year and creates $526 million in annual healthcare costs.
Since 2000, the Hawai‘i Community Foundation (HCF) has administered the Hawai‘i Tobacco Prevention and Control Trust Fund under a contract with the Department of Health (DOH). Since its inception, the state has achieved significant declines in smoking rates for both adults and youth.
In partnership with the DOH, HCF implements a statewide comprehensive tobacco prevention and control program consistent with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s best practices. This includes state and community interventions (advocacy efforts and prevention community grant program), health communication interventions, cessation interventions (Hawai‘i Tobacco Quitline and My Life, My Quit) and a cessation community grant program), surveillance and evaluation, and administration and management.
HCF’s Adult Cessation grant program supports community-based cessation programs that assist adults in priority populations (persons with mental health and/or substance abuse challenges, LGBTQ+ communities, and low socio-economic status populations) to end tobacco use.
2019-2024 Tobacco Cessation Grantee Cohort
Big Island Substance Abuse Council
Community Clinic of Maui: Mālama I Ke Ola
Hāmākua-Kohala Health Center
Hawai‘i Health & Harm Reduction Center
Hawaiʻi Island Community Health Center
Ho‘ola Lahui Hawai‘i
I Ola Lāhui
Kapi‘olani Health Foundation
Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services
Lāna‘i Community Health Center
Mālama Pono Health Services
Wai‘anae Coast Comprehensive Health Center
Wahiawā Health
Waikiki Health
Waimānalo Health Center
HCF’s Youth Prevention grant program supports community-based organizations that work to prevent the initiation and use of electronic smoking devices (ESDs) by Hawai‘i youth under age 18. The grant program is based on the Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit’s Hawaiʻi version of You and Me, Together Vape-Free, comprised of culturally relevent lesson plans to equip youth with skills to reduce experimentation and use of ESDs.
2023 Youth ESD Prevention Grantee Cohort
After-School All-Stars Hawai‘i
Big Island Substance Abuse Council
Boys & Girls Club of Hawai‘i
Boys & Girls Club of the Big Island
Boys & Girls Clubs of Maui
Hāmākua-Kohala Health Center
Hawaiʻi Friends of Restorative Justice
Hawaiʻi Island Community Health Center
I Ola Lāhui
Lānai Community Health Center
The Salvation Army – Family Intervention Services
Wahiawā Health
More information on Hawai‘i’s tobacco prevention and control efforts:
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Currently Accepting Applications
2024 Health Communications Funding Opportunity
Proposals are sought for a vendor to develop and implement three separate coordinated marketing programs for the Hawaiʻi Tobacco Prevention and Control Trust Fund to: promote the Hawaiʻi Tobacco Quitline, promote youth tobacco cessation services, and prevent usage of electronic smoking devices by Hawaiʻi’s youth.
Application deadline: September 18, 2023, at 5 p.m. HST
Complete proposals should be submitted via email to Malia Maier, mmaier@hcf-hawaii.org. If you need to use an external fileshare to submit your proposal, please contact Malia Maier by September 1, 2023 for assistance.
For more information, see the below resources:
2024 Public Education and Advocacy Funding Opportunity
Proposals are sought for a vendor to design and implement a statewide public education and advocacy program for the Hawai'i Tobacco Prevention and Control Trust Fund. The goals of this funding opportunity are: to increase statewide grassroots public understanding and awareness among adults and youth about the health risks of tobacco use, to provide Hawai'i's leaders and decision-makers with current information about the public health burdens of tobacco use and evidence-based strategies to reduce this burden, to collect statewide community input on priorities for improving state and county tobacco control policies and practice, to mobilize public support and action by adults and youth, and to protect and increase funding to support tobacco prevention and control activities in Hawai'i.
Application deadline: November 9, 2023, at 5 p.m. HST
Complete proposals should be submitted via email to Malia Maier, mmaier@hcf-hawaii.org.
If you need to use an external fileshare to submit your proposal (for files over 50 MB), please contact Malia Maier by November 1, 2023 for assistance.
For more information, see the below resources: