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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Community Engagement and Organizing
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
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
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.
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
Decision Maker Matrix Worksheet The Decision Maker Matrix (DMM) is a tool for analyzing the policy position of the decision makers in the jurisdiction that is the focus of your policy campaign. It is designed to assist in the completion of the “Decision Maker” column of the Midwest Academy Strategy Chart (MASC). You can download
Circles of Influence Worksheet Circles of Influence is a key tool in completing the Midwest Academy Strategy Chart (MASC). This tool will determine how a coalition can use its network and relationships to connect with and influence a decision maker (DM). Use the Circles of Influence (COI) tool to identify your allies and constituents to
Circles of Influence is a key tool in completing the Midwest Academy Strategy Chart (MASC). This tool will determine how a coalition can use its network and relationships to connect with and influence a decision maker (DM). Use the Circles of Influence (COI) tool to identify your allies and constituents to measure their level of
General Resources
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
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
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.
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
The Role Of Robust Regulation And Comprehensive Tobacco Control And Prevention The advent of new tobacco products, such as electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and the dramatic rise of their use especially in adolescents and young adults is of significant concern. E-cigarettes have now become the most popular tobacco product for youth and adolescents in the United
Media Advocacy
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
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
Subject: Tobacco Kills Too Many Californians To edit the text below copy and paste the text into your email. Dear Assembly member (Name)/Senator (Name), Please help lead California to a healthier place by addressing the tragic harm done by tobacco and the tobacco industry in this state. While it is true that California has come
Subject: Topic The sample call to action is designed for coalition partners and community members. Tobacco tax funded projects cannot ask decisionmakers to pass tobacco control policies. Remember, when adding your personal connection, local ask and recent news stories, the letter should stay under 250 words, or the publisher’s requirements, which may be less. To
Subject: Disproportionate Impact on Communities of Color and Impacts to Rural and Low-Income Californians The sample call to action is designed for coalition partners and community members. Tobacco tax funded projects cannot ask decisionmakers to pass tobacco control policies. Remember, when adding your personal connection, local ask and recent news stories, the letter should stay
Subject: Topic The sample call to action is designed for coalition partners and community members. Tobacco tax funded projects cannot ask decisionmakers to pass tobacco control policies. Remember, when adding your personal connection, local ask and recent news stories, the letter should stay under 250 words, or the publisher’s requirements, which may be less. To
Social Media
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
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
Capitol Information & Education Virtual Day of Action Raising Our Voices Against Tobacco All Social Media Materials and Posts Download Microsoft Word document version.
Spreadsheet of assembly members twitter handles. Download Microsoft Excel document version.
Success Stories
After COVID-19 restrictions cancelled the in-person 2020 Capitol Information & Education Day (I&E Day), the Tobacco Endgame Center for Organization and Engagement (Center) with the I&E Day Workgroup converted the annual event to a virtual experience, providing the tobacco control community with the tools to effectively advocate for tobacco issues with state legislators in an
Teen Win Against Flavored Tobacco Sales in the City of Adelanto, CA
Partnership with African American Community Helps Keep Flavored Tobacco Out of Youth Hands in Oroville