The Power of People Can Help Weather Shortfalls
The federal budget cuts have hit home. A stop-work order was issued against our Centers for Disease Control Office on Smoking and Health (CDC OSH) contract to provide policy surveillance data that OSH used in Surgeon’s General reports, Morbidity and Mortality Week Reports, fact sheets and other reports and journal articles related to data trends. In addition, a similar order was issued by the Georgia Department of Public Health on our contract to provide technical assistance and strategic guidance to advance smokefree protections across the state.
At ANRF and ANR we believe the power of the people is greater than the people in power. ANR’s founders, supporters, donors, and members have always been instrumental in helping us secure seemingly unachievable goals, like getting smoking off of airplanes, or making bars and casinos smokefree, or tackling exposure to secondhand marijuana/cannabis smoke.
Very bluntly, we need your help, and we need it immediately. Please help us weather these times with a gift today. We continue to seek funding from philanthropies and foundations, but the demand for these funds is fierce right now and proposals can take time to make it through the review process. A regular monthly gift can help us the most because it’s money we can count on. Our monthly giving program is called Frequent Breathers and we encourage you to join now. Frequent Breather gifts can add up to a lot of help for people working or living in secondhand smoke.
Smoking and secondhand smoke remain a number one cause of death and disease. ANR is committed to the fight—but we need your help.
People are still exposed to secondhand smoke in their apartments or other multi-unit housing, at casinos, in bars, and at other workplaces, and in states that have gaps in smokefree protections.
ANRF and ANR focus on helping people who are exposed to secondhand smoke by closing gaps in smokefree protections and work to stave off an emboldened group of opponents to smokefree indoor air who now are manipulating the new landscape of reduced regulations and restrictions on industry lobbying and other bad acts, and attempting to dismantle hard-earned smokefree protections. We have always been a small, but mighty organization and our strength is now needed more than ever.
Thank you for your support and for taking the time to consider joining our Frequent Breather program or making a donation today!
We can’t go back to smoky restaurants and bars.
We can’t go back to smoky airplanes.
We can’t go back to smoky workplaces.
Will you stand with us?
Hear from casino employees, those who are on the front lines of the fight, working every day in smoke-filled workplaces:
View our event video from March – see and hear the people we fight for:
WAYS TO GIVE
Checks can be made out to ANR or ANRF and returned via the enclosed envelope and mailed to PO Box 2941, Berkeley, CA 94702.
Credit card gifts can be made online.
Crypto currency can be donated at www.every.org/no-smoke
IRA Giving
If you are over 70 1/2 years old, Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs) let you donate as a tax-free IRA distribution. You can include QCDs as part of a Required Minimum Distribution. Contact your financial planner or the institution that holds your IRA account.
Donor Advised Funds (DAF)
Many donors have set up DAFs operated by a financial services firm (Fidelity, Schwab, Vanguard etc.). One or more donors make contributions of stocks, mutual funds, or sometimes special assets (private equity, hedge funds, real property) to the DAF which are immediately deductible. Anytime thereafter, regular gifts can be easily distributed to a charity of the donor’s choice.
Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights (ANR) is a member-supported,501c4, non-profit advocacy group that has been working for over 45 years, since 1976, to protect everyone’s right to breathe nontoxic air in workplaces and public places, from offices and airplanes to restaurants, bars, and casinos. ANR has continuously shined a light on the tobacco industry’s interference with sound and life-saving public health measures and successfully protected 61% of the population with local or statewide smokefree workplace, restaurant, and bar laws. ANR aims to close gaps in smokefree protections for workers in all workplaces, including bars, music venues, casinos, and hotels. nonsmokersrights.org
About ANRF, sister organization to ANR, American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation (ANRF) is a 501c3 non-profit educational and advocacy group that has been working for nearly 50 years to protect everyone’s right to breathe nontoxic air in workplaces and public places, from offices and airplanes to restaurants, bars, and casinos. ANRF has continuously shined a light on the tobacco industry’s interference with sound and life-saving public health measures and successfully protected 61% of the population with local or statewide smokefree workplace, restaurant, and bar laws. ANRF aims to close gaps in smokefree protections for workers in all workplaces, including bars, music venues, casinos, and hotels. For more information, please visit https://no-smoke.org/. ANRF projects include https://smokefreecasinos.org/ and https://smokefreemusiccities.org/.
