Color CoordiNATION is working to build its capacity and membership base to provide wellness promotion and tobacco control in the future.  Two events were utilized to outreach to the community; Twin Cities Pride/Power to the People Tent and Black Pride.  Color CoordiNATION will also work with TLC to develop and administer a tobacco and wellness survey for LGBT Communities of Color.  A qualitative and quantitative tool will help collect data that is both necessary and rare for LGBT Communities of Color. 

Quorum is assessing GLBT business owner attitudes, beliefs, knowledge base, and current tobacco control policies (Phase 1), and to provide LGBT business owner outreach and education based on the assessment data collected (Phase 2).

Rare Productions is working to increase awareness of target market practices designed for people of color communities by the tobacco industry and the prevalence of tobacco addiction in LGBT people of color communities. Power to the People 2008 (P2P) served as the launching of the "Artists In Support Of Tobacco Free Communities" Project (Tobacco Road), an educational awareness campaign focusing on LGBTQ communities of color.  RARE Productions will collaborate with local artists to create Public Service Announcements (PSA's) and multimedia performance art shows. PSA’s will be created from video/film footage from TC Pride/Power to the People event and art/performance shows.

Family & Children Services, The GLBT KIDS: Abuse Intervention Program – The primary objective of this proposal is to develop a plan to effectively reach LGBT youth, and adults who work with LGBT youth, with messages developed by LGBT youth and young adults.  The plan is to increase the media literacy of LGBT youth and young adults through a marketing plan that will utilize two electronic forms of social marketing, developed in collaboration with LGBT youth and young adults, to get the messages out about the dangers of tobacco use and about specific cessation resources that are friendly to LGBT communities.

Prepone Consulting – This project will provide communications and marketing, project management, and material development culminating in a statewide Photography Contest, depicting healthy living of LGBT communities in MN. The outcomes of this project will 1) provide opportunity for wide-spread community involvement, 2) provide RHI/TLC with the rights to a wide array of images of healthy LGBT lifestyles to utilize in marketing and materials development, and 3) a social marketing campaign around healthy living in LGBT communities

PFLAG – This project provided direct funding for the PFLAG regional conference. All conference materials, evaluations, attendee packets, and advertisements included TLC logo and website. A resource table was provided for tobacco prevention and cessation information, and several workshops at the conference were dedicated to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug discussions for parents and youth.

Philanthrofund (Pfund) – This funding is for a 2 Phase project. Phase I is to convene at least 30 individuals from at least 15 health agencies serving LGBT communities. The purpose of the convening will be to identify/discuss key health issues that LGBT communities face around tobacco use and other health disparities, build relationships among the agencies and leaders, share resources and promote collaboration making the organizations more efficient at creating healthier LGBT communities. In phase II of the project, PFund will hold a community meeting to share the results of the convening and discuss issues of LGBT tobacco use and other health disparities. A panel of participants from the first convening will share key health issues for LGBT communities and key take-aways from the convening. PFund will link our donors and community members at large with our grantee partners to be engaged in facilitated discussion about how they can be supportive of the work the agencies are doing to advance the health of LGBT communities. In addition to the panel and facilitated discussion, participants will also receive information regarding the effects of tobacco use in LGBT communities as well as information about other health issues in LGBT communities.

Regents of University of MN – HIV/STI Intervention and Prevention Studies – Co-sponsoring a research study to conduct a qualitative assessment of how and LGBT inclusive health care environment can be created in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. One focus of the study is to seek an answer to the question, “How can health care providers and LGBT patients communicate their respective concerns in a manner that creates open dialogue, leading to better clinical diagnosis and patient compliance. This particularly will focus on how patients share information about risky behaviors, including alcohol, tobacco, and drug use with their doctors.