Established as part of a settlement agreement between forty-six state attorneys general and a group of tobacco companies, the American Legacy Foundation seeks to reduce tobacco usage in the United States. Twice a year, the Foundation supports a limited number of grants under its Small Innovative Grants Program. Through this program, Legacy supports projects that advance creative, promising solutions based on sound principles of tobacco control to remedy the harm caused by tobacco use in America. The program is designed to seed new projects or enable an organization to pilot a new idea or approach. Applications must address one or both of Legacy's goals: 1) arming all young people with the knowledge and tools to reject tobacco, and 2) eliminating disparities in access to tobacco prevention and cessation services.

Because MU is limited to one application for this program, letters of intent must be submitted to the Office of Research, ltdsub@missouri.edu, no later than 5:00 pm Friday, December 16, 2005. Letters of intent should be limited to 3 pages and should include a description of the proposed project, how it represents innovative or new tobacco prevention or cessation efforts, its likelihood for sustainability after the grant period, and how the project might be replicated.

URL for more information: http://www.americanlegacy.org/

This notice is being sent to deans, directors, and chairs in biomedical and social science disciplines. Please forward it to faculty members who may be interested.