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Sacramento Valley Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Awards $575,000 in Grants
SACRAMENTO, CA - The Sacramento Valley Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation today announced that it will grant over $575,000 to 16 local organizations and 20 programs for early detection, education, and supportive services related to breast health. The grant recipients will receive their funding this month, which will allow them to continue their work in the fight against breast cancer.
The more than $575,000 in funds was raised by the Sacramento Valley Affiliate's eighth annual Komen Race for the Cure® that took place in May 2004. Up to seventy-five percent of the funds raised at the annual Race stay in the Sacramento - area and are dedicated to the medically underserved, through breast cancer programs that are filling gaps in the community.
"We are extremely pleased to fund these organizations and are looking forward to working with them over the next year." Donna Sanderson, executive director of the Sacramento Valley Affiliate said. "All of the grant recipients share the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's commitment to eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease by advancing research, education, screening and treatment."
The local organizations that have been funded include: - Breaking Barriers Community Services Center
- CommuniCare Health Centers
- Delta Health Care
- Health Education Council
- Hmong Women's Heritage Association
- Sutter Cancer Center, Sacramento
- Sutter County Public Health
- Save Ourselves, The Breast Cancer
- Organization of Sacramento
- St. Joseph's Medical Center
- The Effort, Inc.
- UC Davis Cancer Center
- YWCA of Sacramento
- The Sacramento Korean American Cancer Support Group, Shalom
- YMCA-North Bay-Solano County
- UC Davis Health System-Consortium of Student-Run Clinics
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About Komen:
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. Today, Komen for the Cure is the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. Thanks to events like the Komen Race for the Cure, we have invested nearly $1 billion to fulfill our promise, becoming the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world. For more information about Susan G. Komen for the Cure, breast health or breast cancer, visit www.komen.org or call 1-877 GO KOMEN.
About the Affiliate:
Led by more than 100,000 survivors and activists, Komen is the world' largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting to end breast cancer forever. We are local activists in 124 cities and communities, mobilizing more than one million friends and neighbors every year through events like the Komen Race for the Cure Series, the world's largest and most successful awareness and fundraising event for breast cancer. We are advocates at the local, state and federal level, fighting for the screening and treatment programs that save lives and the research that brings us closer to the cure.
Sacramento Valley Affiliate
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Sacramento Affiliate
Mailing address:
2443 Fair Oaks Blvd, #223
Sacramento, CA 95825
Physical address:
4970 Windplay Drive, Ste. 3
El Dorado Hills, CA 95672
Phone: 916.492.6474
Fax: 916.941.7896
E-mail:
info@komensacramento.org
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