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*CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS - TAX-EXEMPT SINCE MAY 1996 | *CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS - TAX-EXEMPT SINCE MAY 1996 | ||
*Nonprofit Tax Code Designation: 501(c)(3) | *Nonprofit Tax Code Designation: 501(c)(3) | ||
===[https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/what-we-do/global/bloomberg BLOOMBERG INITIATIVE TO REDUCE TOBACCO USE]=== | |||
*Since 2007, Michael R. Bloomberg, philanthropist and former mayor of New York City, has committed nearly $1 billion to combat tobacco use worldwide, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK / TFKAF''')</span> is one of the partner organizations that coordinate activities under this initiative, which is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and known as the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use. | |||
*As part of this initiative, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids provides legal, communications and research support to governments and non-governmental organizations around the world to assist in promoting, adopting and implementing tobacco control policies. Also as part of this initiative, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids works with the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease to provide grants to governments and non-governmental organizations in low- and middle-income countries to accelerate progress in tobacco control. | |||
*Other partners in this initiative are: | |||
**CDC Foundation | |||
**Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | |||
**World Health Organization | |||
**Vital Strategies | |||
**International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease | |||
**University of Illinois at Chicago | |||
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**October 2003, the Board authorized an additional $14 million for a three-year period to continue the work of the Center. | **October 2003, the Board authorized an additional $14 million for a three-year period to continue the work of the Center. | ||
==CDC Foundation== | ==[https://www.cdcfoundation.org/ CDC Foundation]== | ||
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==[http://www.healthjustice.ph/?fbclid=IwAR1wp6zTSSha6qDxVfx2S46_-rHBvv5Bm0oWax9kF8k-Uazow-g-Zi7y-Dk HealthJustice Phillipines]== | ==[http://www.healthjustice.ph/?fbclid=IwAR1wp6zTSSha6qDxVfx2S46_-rHBvv5Bm0oWax9kF8k-Uazow-g-Zi7y-Dk HealthJustice Phillipines]== | ||
==[https://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/institute-for-global-tobacco-control/index.html Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health]== | |||
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==<span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span>== | ==[https://tobacconomics.org/ University of Illinois at Chicago]== | ||
*Tobacconomics is directed by Frank Chaloupka, PhD, and administered by the Institute for Health Research and Policy of the University of Illinois at Chicago. | |||
==[https://www.vitalstrategies.org/ Vital Strategies]== | |||
==[http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/ <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span>]== | |||
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Lung_Foundation Wikipedia] | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Lung_Foundation Wikipedia] | ||
**WLF is a partner in the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The goal of the Initiative is to reduce tobacco use in low- and middle-income countries, where 80% of the 6 million deaths resulting from tobacco use took place in 2011. WLF = funds and supports mass media ad campaigns on the harmful effects of smoking and other forms of tobacco use. WLF has supported 80 tobacco control mass media campaigns in 20 countries. WLF disbursed millions from Bloomberg Philanthropies to The International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (*<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>), the World Health Organization, the Framework Convention Alliance, and the CDC Foundation to strengthen their tobacco control activities and to support its own mass media programs. Other partners in the Bloomberg Initiative are <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. | **WLF is a partner in the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The goal of the Initiative is to reduce tobacco use in low- and middle-income countries, where 80% of the 6 million deaths resulting from tobacco use took place in 2011. WLF = funds and supports mass media ad campaigns on the harmful effects of smoking and other forms of tobacco use. WLF has supported 80 tobacco control mass media campaigns in 20 countries. WLF disbursed millions from Bloomberg Philanthropies to The International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (*<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>), the World Health Organization, the Framework Convention Alliance, and the CDC Foundation to strengthen their tobacco control activities and to support its own mass media programs. Other partners in the Bloomberg Initiative are <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. | ||
='''Nicotine Foes - Friends / Associates of Bloomberg'''= | ='''Nicotine Foes - Friends / Associates of Bloomberg'''= | ||
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