This RFA seeks to fund up to six (6) local projects for a period of 15 months to build momentum toward ending California’s tobacco epidemic through policy, systems, and environmental change strategies and increasing community engagement in these initiatives among people living in rural communities that have been disproportionately targeted by the tobacco industry.

This RFA requires awardees to work on local policy objectives that would make the greatest impact on the population’s health and the environment and to engage people living in rural communities in these efforts. Awardees will implement a prescribed Scope of Work (SOW), which includes community education, capacity building, community organizing, and coordination and collaboration activities.

• CG 23-10060_Funding Opportunity Alert (PDF - 228.54 Kb)

• CG 23-10060 Empowering Rural Communities to End the Tobacco Epidemic (PDF - 510.54 Kb)


• Appendix 1_Tobacco Use Disparities Among Rural Populations (PDF - 0.92 Mb)


• Appendix 2_Local Lead Agency Campaign to End Commercial Tobacco (PDF - 1.36 Mb)


• Appendix 3_Reducing the Impact of Tobacco on Rural California Communities, A Policy Platform (PDF - 4.05 Mb)


• Appendix 4_Prescribed Scope of Work (PDF - 1.04 Mb)


• Appendix 5_Background and Authorizing Legislation (PDF - 0.82 Mb)


• Appendix 6_Sample Non-Profit Status Letter (PDF - 1.24 Mb)


• Appendix 7_Rural Jurisdictions (PDF - 0.76 Mb)


• Appendix 8_Certification of Non-Acceptance of Tobacco Funds (PDF - 2.24 Mb)


• Appendix 9_TCFOR User Instructions (PDF - 404.64 Kb)


• Appendix 10_Instructions for Accessing the OTIS Applicant Training Course (PDF - 2.18 Mb)


• Appendix 11_Budget Justification Instructions (PDF - 3.02 Mb)


• Appendix 12_Comparable State Civil Service Classifications (PDF - 0.64 Mb)


• Appendix 13_CTPP Program Letter 18-01 Incentive Materials (PDF - 1.05 Mb)


• Appendix 14_Additional Tobacco Prevention Funding (PDF - 0.78 Mb)


• Appendix 15_California Civil Rights Law Attachment (PDF - 2.44 Mb)


• Appendix 16_CTPP Policy Manual (PDF - 2.16 Mb)


• Appendix 17_CTPP Administrative Manual (PDF - 2.73 Mb)

The California Department of Public Health/California Tobacco Prevention Program (CTPP) intends to award seven (7) grants to the following agencies in response to Request for Application (RFA) CG #23-10060, Empowering Rural Communities to End the Tobacco Epidemic. Please see agency and project names below:

1. American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network – Central Valley South

2. American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network – VIVA

3. American Lung Association in California – North Valley Rural Tobacco Project

4. California Health Collaborative Chico – Community Allies for Rural Equity

5. California Health Collaborative – Rural Empowerment, Advocacy, and Leadership (REAL) Project

6. California Health Collaborative – STAAND Sutter County

7. Partnership for Health Equity and Inclusion – Living Independent From Tobacco (LIFT)

• 23-10060_cdph1229 (PDF - 194.64 Kb)


• 23-10060_Exhibit A (PDF - 53.44 Kb)


• 23-10060_Exhibit A_Attachment I (PDF - 57.62 Kb)


• 23-10060_Exhibit B (PDF - 224.52 Kb)


• 23-10060_Exhibit C (PDF - 130.14 Kb)


• 23-10060_Exhibit D (PDF - 113.48 Kb)


• 23-10060_Exhibit E (PDF - 112.52 Kb)

An optional virtual informational webinar will be conducted on July 19, 2023* from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., PT*. Prospective Applicants are strongly encouraged to participate. The purpose of the Informational Webinar is to provide interested parties with an opportunity to ask questions about the preparation and submission of the Application.

Register in advance for this webinar: https://cdph-ca-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lBKr2s3vSqKOZSBIitmb5A

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

*Dates and times are tentative. 

• CG 23-10060 Empowering Rural Communities to End the Tobacco Epidemic Webinar


• 23-10060 Round 1 Q & A (PDF - 257.61 Kb)


• 23-10060 Round 2 Q & A (PDF - 186.06 Kb)

*Dates and times are tentative. All times are in Pacific Time (PT).

**Final Awards cannot be made until all appeals have been resolved. It is the Applicant’s responsibility to check for notices and addenda for this RFA on the TCFOR website throughout the RFA process.

The maximum award for the full 15-month period is $300,000 per awardee. Up to $1.8 million is anticipated to be distributed among all awardees. Funding is contingent upon available revenues, appropriation by the Legislature and the Governor, multi-year spending authority, and CDPH/CTPP funding priorities and/or legal or administrative limitations.

• Other Materials
• SSO-MFA-Applicant (PDF - 0.52 Mb)
• TCFOR/OTIS Training Tutorials