Small Grant Awards

For calendar year 2007, the following organizations received small grants to support conferences, travel and/or small projects related to breast health.
Rex Healthcare, Save our Sisters of Rex
Sisters Network Triangle
Johnston County Health Department
Pines of Carolina, Girl Scouts
El Pueblo
The Blannie Bet Massey Morris Foundation
UNC-FPG Child Development Institute
Rex Hospital Foundation
Duke Cancer Patient Support Program
Morehouse School of Medicine / NBLIC
Crossworks

2007 STEP Grant Awards

For calendar year 2007, the Komen NC Triangle Affiliate awarded more than $830,000 in STEP (Screening, Treatment, Education, Post-Diagnosis) grants to the following non-profits and health care providers. We congratulate these exceptional organizations for their commitment to supporting the under-served and under-insured and providing basic breast health to all patients. 2008 Grants will be announced in March, 2008.

Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education

“BSE: Resource and Training for Teachers, Youth and Community Organizations” provides teachers, school nurses, and counselors with trainings, curriculum manuals and teaching kits to provide breast health practices and healthy living to a young captive female audience. www.poehealth.org

Caring Community Foundation, Inc.

“Pay It Forward” provides financial support for breast cancer patients in need. ALL money will go toward providing assistance, expeditiously, for rent, utilities, food, transportation and other items that become even more difficult to manage in the face of cancer treatment.

Caswell Family Medical Center

“Mobile Mammography for Caswell County” provides mobile screenings four times per year to women in this very rural county, with no hospital or mammography services. www.caswellcountync.gov/ainterest/medserv.htm

Community Health Coalition, Inc.

“The Sisterhood United for Breast Cancer Education and Screening Project” provides breast cancer education, transportation and/or free mammography screenings if necessary to African American women in Durham and Harnett counties through established Church networks. www.chealthc.org

Crossworks

“Breaking Free-Breast Cancer Awareness for Black Beauties” offers important breast health information to high-risk, African American women through the beauty consultants at local beauty salons in Nash and Edgecombe Counties. www.Crossworks.org

Duke University Medical Center

“Breast MRI: Bridging the Insurance Gap for High-Risk Women” provides bilateral MRI for 60 underinsured women who are at the highest risk for developing breast cancer and live in the Triangle area. www.dukehealth.org

Edgecombe County Health Department

“Edgecombe Breast Health Initiative” is a collaborative effort to provide comprehensive, culturally sensitive breast health education and screening to underinsured/uninsured women. www.edgecombecountync.gov/health/health.html

El Pueblo

“Communidad Sana” is a community-based education and outreach program to increase breast cancer awareness among new Latina immigrants in 10 counties. www.elpueblo.org

Franklin County Health Department

“A Ray of Hope for Franklin County” provides training to volunteers to educate women about breast health utilizing churches and work sites. www.co.franklin.nc.us/docs/health/l_Health_Ed.html

Granville Medical Center Specialty Clinic

“Granville Breast Health Initiative” educates clients on breast health, provide regular screenings, and will focus on the rehabilitation of post surgery clients with follow up care. www.granvillemedical.com/GranSpecClin.htm

Immigrant Health Initiative, Chatham Hospital

“Hazlo por tu Familia” provides clinical breast exams, diagnostic screenings, lymphedema treatment, counseling and survivorship services by peer “navigators” to Latinas in Chatham County. www.chathamhospital.org/immigrant_health.html

Johnston County Health Department

“Educate and Detect Early in 2007” provides education, screening and diagnostic mammograms and ultrasound to the under/uninsured women of Johnston County. www.co.johnston.nc.us

Lincoln Community Health Center

“Mammography for Low-Income Uninsured Women” provides screening and diagnostic mammograms to low-income, uninsured women in Durham County. www.lincolnchc.org

Maria Parham Medical Center and Granville-Vance Health Dept.

“Project Pink” offers education, screening, treatment and other support services for the medically underserved population in Vance County and its surrounding areas. www.mphosp.org

Nash County Health Department

“Mammograms for Life!” supplements the BCCCP program and provide women in Nash County with mammograms. www.health.co.nash.nc.us

OIC

“Breast Health & Breast Cancer Prevention” provides important breast health information and the appropriate use of new and existing health resources to women in Nash and Edgecombe Counties.

Piedmont Health Services, Inc.

“Project Access” offers culturally appropriate breast health education and screening mammography to poor, uninsured women in Caswell, Chatham and Orange Counties. www.piedmonthealth.org

Planned Parenthood Health Systems

“Breast Screening-Plugging the Gap” provides free, culturally appropriate clinical breast exams follow-up diagnostic evaluations for Hispanic women under the age of 40. www.plannedparenthood.org/centralnc/

REX Foundation

“REX Mammography Certificate Program” provides screening and/or diagnostic mammograms through Rex’s Breast Care Center or Mobile Mammography to women in Wake County. www.rexhealth.com

UNC-Chapel Hill

“Genetic Testing Gap” offers genetic testing (BRCA 1 & 2) for patients who do not have health insurance. www.sph.unc.edu/index.cfm

UNC-Chapel Hill, Dept. of Exercise & Sport Science

”Get Real & Heel Breast Cancer” is designed to serve post-diagnosed breast cancer patients with individualized exercise programs to increase their quality of life and strengthen body and mind. www.unc.edu/depts/exercise

Wake County Human Services

“Educate Our Women” seeks to increase knowledge and awareness about breast health/cancer and screening resources among uninsured African American and Latina women, ages 35 and older to include the use of Lay Health Advisors. www.wakegov.com/humanservices/default.htm

Women Helping Women

“Feeling Better About Me” assists low-income, uninsured, or underinsured women financially with the purchase of prosthesis, bras, wigs and/or hats and turbans and lymphedema sleeves and gloves. www.women-helping-women.com