Resources
The Tobacco Endgame Center provides a wide variety of tools to bolster any community organizing or engagement campaign. From Midwest Academy Strategy Charts to fact sheets and training webinars, you will find what you are looking for to engage your community in policy and organizing campaigns.
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Case Study: Leveraging the community voice and equity issues to strengthen tobacco retailer licensing policy in Hayward
In July 2020, the Hayward City Council amended its Tobacco Retail License (TRL) policy to remove both the exemption of menthol flavored tobacco products and “grandfathering” of existing licensees, thus eliminating the sale of flavored tobacco products citywide. Additionally, the Council enacted several provisions to strengthen the TRL. The effort was led by Eden Youth and Family Center (EYFC), the Asian Pacific Islander Coalition for Health Against Tobacco (API-CHAT) and the Alameda County Tobacco Control Program (TCP) – a broad community of organizations that marshalled a powerful and diverse base of support, leveraging youth and community voices and social equity issues.
Case Study: City of Oakland closes loophole in flavored tobacco products policy, strengthens enforcement
In May 2020, the Oakland City Council closed a loophole exempting “adult-only” tobacco stores from the city’s flavored tobacco sales restrictions and further strengthened community tobacco control and enforcement measures. The policy also prohibited pharmacies from selling any tobacco products, set a minimum price of $8 for a pack of cigarettes and little cigars/cigarillos and a minimize pack size of 20 little cigars/cigarillos. The effort, led by the Alameda County Tobacco Control Coalition (the Coalition), the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC), Roots Community Health Center and the Alameda County Tobacco Control Program (TCP) – leveraged strong community partnerships to reflect broad and strong support for strengthening the Tobacco Retail License (TRL) policy as an urgent public health and social equity response in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Case Study City of Colton TRL Campaign and Youth Access to Tobacco
Colton Community Coalition for Change (Coalition), a community outreach program of Mental Health Systems Central Valley Prevention Program (MHS), and its community partners spent nearly two-and-a-half years cultivating support for a comprehensive Tobacco Retail License (TRL) policy for the City of Colton. The lengthy campaign overcame several roadblocks before a TRL policy was adopted in December 2019, including delays and leadership changes both among the coalition members and political leadership in Colton, illustrating the powerful roles of community partnerships and youth voices.
Using Texting for Community Engagement
Texting and messaging apps are fantastic campaign tools that enable you to have a real-time, two-way dialogue with supporters and move them to action. Because texting is such a common form of communication in our world, communicating with supporters in the same way they communicate with friends and family members can help build trust, put
Spokesperson Training Guide
A spokesperson is the public face and voice of a campaign. Whether giving media interviews, testifying before a policy making body or presenting at a community organization. Your spokespeople give the campaign a human touch that resonates with your target audience and creates credibility. This guide provides tips for recruiting and training spokespeople as well
Remotely Organizing and Engaging Your Community
This guide provides recommended strategies and tactics on how to remotely engage and organize your coalition, community partners, supporters, policymakers and the public from a distance.
How to Use Stories to Win Your Campaign
Many of us have a story from our personal or professional lives about how tobacco use has impacted us or motivated us to get involved in efforts to prevent tobacco from hurting our communities. Perhaps a close family member or friend has died from smoking. Maybe you’re motivated by the opportunity to create a safe
