The Susan G. Komen Southern Arizona Affiliate recently announced this year’s community grants recipients. The organization is awarding a total of $204,763 204,763 to eight local organizations in its six-county service area in Southern Arizona.
This year’s recipients are:
— $9,999 to the University of Arizona Foundation for the benefit of Arizona Cancer Center’s ¡Vida! Educational Series Breast Health Promotion Program to provide breast cancer survivors, co-survivors, and health care providers bilingual in-person trainings, teleconferences, and delayed recorded viewing on the Internet.
— $10,000 to the Arizona Oncology Associates Foundation for Breast Cancer Survivor Programs and Services to support patients with programs and information about day-to-day living with breast cancer.
— $50,000 to Chiricahua Community Health Centers’ Breast Friends program to provide treatment for individuals diagnosed with breast cancer in Cochise County who have no other resources, and to eliminate barriers individuals face in southeast Arizona to achieving breast health via education and awareness raising.
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— $25,000 to the Pima County Health Department’s Bridging the Gap-Screening to provide breast cancer screening and diagnostic services to Pima County’s uninsured and underinsured individuals 40 years of age and older, and to minority women in rural areas who do not qualify for other services.
— $49,795 to St. Elizabeth’s Health Center's Breast Cancer Treatment Program to provide surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and related treatment costs for uninsured/underinsured men and women diagnosed with breast cancer who don’t qualify for other funding sources.
— $25,000 to Tucson Medical Center's Breast Health and Education Program to provide screening mammograms and follow-up to low-income, uninsured women 40 or older.
— $24,969 to the UA for education and screening for BRCA 1/2 mutations and associated cancer risks in underserved populations.
— And $10,000 to the Regional Center for Border Health, Inc.’s Between Friends/Entre Amigas Breast Cancer Awareness Program to establish breast cancer resource centers in collaboration with the Yuma County Library System, and to increase access to breast health screenings and treatment services for the uninsured.
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