The Pennsylvania Asthma Partnership is accepting grant proposals.
Up to $5,000 will be awarded to each grant recipient to be spent over a yearlong period.
A total of $35,000 will be awarded to any community-based or nonprofit applicant with a strong commitment to reducing the burden of asthma.
Projects must cover at least one goal from the 2006 Pennsylvania Asthma Action Plan. All proposals must be received by Aug. 1.
The partnership is a collaboration between the state Department of Health and the American Lung Association.
The partnership's mission is to develop and implement a collaborative, sustainable statewide asthma plan that expands and improves the quality of asthma care. It also seeks to eliminate the disproportionate burden that asthma places on racial and ethnic minorities and low-income Pennsylvania residents.
Partners will work on short-, medium- and long-term measurable outcomes.
Questions regarding the grants or the partnership can be directed to Sara Lewis at slewis@lunginfo.org or 717-541-5864, Ext. 28.
The grant program was established to enable Pennsylvania communities to develop their own tailor-made asthma control programs.
Originally founded to fight tuberculosis, the American Lung Association now fights lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health.
The association says lung disease death rates continue to increase while other leading causes of death have declined.
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