Denver – (April 14, 2010] – Determined to save lives and end breast cancer forever, the Denver Metropolitan Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® awarded grants to 28 nonprofits representing 37 local breast cancer projects totaling $2.7 million Friday night at The Hope for the Cure banquet.
“We are pleased to partner with community organizations to help provide life-saving breast cancer education, screening, treatment and support services through these grants,” said Michele Ostrander, executive director of the Komen Denver Affiliate.
At The Hope for the Cure, grants were awarded to programs based on the community profile assessment conducted earlier this year. The funding was specifically broken down by needs addressed in the survey:
• Screening/Diagnostic Services 41%
• Treatment Services 29%
• Treatment Support 15%
• Education and Outreach 9%?
• Technical Assistance and Small Grants 4 %
• Coalition Building Activities 1%?
The Komen Denver Metropolitan Affiliate is part of the 125-Affiliate network of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting to end breast cancer forever. The Affiliates are the face and voice of Komen for the Cure’s global breast cancer movement in communities around the world. Through local events and activities, the Komen Denver Metropolitan Affiliate mobilizes and educates thousands of community members while raising funds to support community-based breast cancer programs.
In order to ensure it is funding programs that address the specific unmet breast cancer needs of the Northern Colorado community, the Komen Denver Metropolitan Affiliate works with local health care professionals and community leaders to conduct a comprehensive community needs assessment. This community profile, a standard practice of all Komen Affiliates, is then used to establish local grant priorities consistent with the organization’s standards and mission.
For more information on the specific grants awarded, visit www.KomenDenver.org.
Last year, Susan G. Komen for the Cure Affiliates—working in concert with local organizations—awarded more than $80 million in needs-based community grants. That’s in addition to the 25 percent of their income that Affiliates contribute toward the many millions the organization invests each year in promising research.
About Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and the Komen Denver Affiliate
Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure and launched the global breast cancer movement. The Komen Denver Metropolitan Affiliate is working to better the lives of those facing breast cancers in the local community, joining more than 1 million breast cancer survivors and activists around the globe as part of the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting breast cancer. Through events like the Komen Denver Race for the Cure®, the Komen Denver Affiliate has invested more than $25 million since 1993 in community breast health programs in 19 Colorado counties (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson, Larimer, Gilpin, Clear Creek, Park, Summit, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld, and Yuma counties). The remaining 25 percent goes to the national Susan G. Komen for the Cure Grants Program to fund research. For more information, call 303-744-2088 or visit www.komendenver.org.
Contact: Lisa Metzger, Metzger Associates
720-833-5920 or [email protected]
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