Avon Walk for Breast Cancer 2010 Grants
| National Programs | ||
| Houston | Chicago | Santa Barbara |
| Washington DC | Rocky Mountains | New York |
| Boston | San Francisco | Charlotte |
Avon Foundation Breast Health Outreach Program (New York, NY) $6,000,000
Funds are disbursed as grants to 125 non-profit Community Based Organizations across the country - with at least one in every state - for education and outreach programs. These programs will collectively navigate 120,000 women next year into mammography screening and will educate 500,000 others on breast health and the importance of early detection.
Cancer Care (New York, NY) $1,125,000
Funds will enable the continuation of AvonCares - a financial assistance program that provides cash for low-income women facing breast cancer. The cash assistance can be used to pay for gas to get to a doctor’s appointment, or for child care or elder care. The program, which launched in 2000 through 2009, has already assisted more than 53,000 women for a total of more than $12 million!
Love/Avon Army of Women (Los Angeles, CA) $740,000
The Love/Avon Army was created with this award to the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation to recruit one million women around the country to participate in studies to understand the causes of breast cancer and accelerate research on how to prevent the disease. Join the Army by visiting armyofwomen.org
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Grants awarded at the 2010/2011 Avon Walks included:
The Sisters Network of Houston, TX, received $50,000 to support travel scholarships for breast cancer advocates to attend the 12th Annual National African-American Breast Cancer Conference.
Christus Health-St. Mary Hospital of Port Arthur, TX, received $85,000 to fund a new patient navigator position to help women navigate the financial and medical challenges of a breast cancer diagnosis.
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston received $90,000 for community education, outreach and patient navigation.
The Rose of Houston, TX, received $150,000 for patient navigation services and to screen thousands of women each year.
Breast Health Collaborative of Texas, a unique, state- and city-wide effort, received $150,000 to identify gaps and better coordinate care for low-income and uninsured women in Houston.
Seton Healthcare of Austin, TX, received $150,000 to purchase new digital mammography equipment for their mobile van, serving women throughout Central Texas.
Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation of San Antonio, TX received $125,000 to help hundreds of survivors and advocates attend the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium this December and develop a CD of key new research results that is distributed throughout the country.
Baylor College of Medicine of Houston, TX, the Avon Walk Houston Medical Sponsor, received $300,000 to develop a new blood test that detects when breast cancer is spreading from the breast and threatens to spread to the brain.
Washington DC: April 30 – May 1
Georgetown University received $750,000 in the form of two grants. The first grant will support Avon’s signature patient care program in the District, the Capital Breast Care Center, and the second grant will fund a research project to develop a blood test for the early detection of breast cancer.
Johns Hopkins University, an Avon Comprehensive Breast Cancer Care Center of Excellence, received $750,000 to support access to care and cutting edge research at the Avon Center at Johns Hopkins.
National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund received $600,000 to continue Project LEAD, a program that trains breast cancer survivors and advocates to serve as advisors and advocate for research and funding programs. Through Avon support, more than 1,300 advocates have already been trained.
George Washington University received $400,000 in the form of two grants. One grant will support its Mobile Mammography Campaign for Breast Health in Anacostia while the second grant will support a research project led by Dr. Patricia Berg to develop a new test to assess risk of breast cancer.
Food and Friends received $250,000 to support its Avon Pink Ribbon Delivery Program, which provides breast cancer patients and their families with specialized nutrition support and delivered meals.
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health received $150,000 to support I-Spy 2, a ground breaking study that will test new, individually targeted breast cancer therapies in patients diagnosed with localized, aggressive cancers.
Meritus Healthcare received $115,000 to support a patient navigation program for underserved women from rural Washington County.
University of Maryland Baltimore received $75,000 to support the Baltimore City Breast Cancer Patient Navigator Program.
Winchester Medical Center received $50,000 to support patient navigation for underserved women and men in Virginia, West Virginia and western Maryland.
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Boston: May 14 - 15
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center of Boston, home of the Avon Foundation Comprehensive Breast Evaluation Center, an Avon Foundation Breast Care Center of Excellence, received $1.5 million. The grant will support HER2 positive breast cancer research, as well as programs that help low income women receive care at the Avon Center at Mass General and community clinics in Chelsea, Geiger Gibson and Mattapan. The funds also will support the
Massachusetts General Hospital-Avon International Breast Cancer Program, which focuses on increasing survivorship rates and extending access to quality breast health care to women across the globe.
Brigham & Women's Hospital of Boston received $300,000 to support research to understand how normal changes to the breast during pregnancy can be used to predict future breast cancer risk in healthy women.
University of Massachusetts - Amherst received $300,000 to develop a test to identify premalignant breast lesions that have a high risk of progressing to breast cancer and differentiate them from those unlikely to advance.
Silent Spring Institute of Newton, MA, received $175,000 to support a research fellowship looking at the potential role of the environment in breast cancer development.
Community Servings of Jamaica Plain, MA, received $100,000 to support the Avon Door-to-Door Delivery Program, which brings thousands of meals to breast cancer patients and their families.
The Avon Foundation also awarded four grants during the Closing Ceremony to further strengthen the Avon Safety Net program, which consists of more than 100 hospitals across the country that ensure women and men who might otherwise fall through the cracks of the healthcare system have access to high quality breast cancer services. The Safety Net grants include:
LifeSpan Foundation of Providence, RI received a grant of $250,000;
Boston Medical Center received a grant of $250,000;
Cambridge Health Alliance of Boston received a grant of $125,000; and
Central Maine Medical Center of Lewiston, ME, received a grant of $62,000.
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Chicago: June 4 - 5
Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization received $200,000 to support the YourShoes 24/7 Breast Cancer Support Center, which provides the only round-the-clock volunteer-staffed breast cancer call center in the country.
Mercy Hospital received $200,000 to fund its patient navigator staff and a new digital mammography machine for its 56th Street location.
Sinai Health System received $200,000 to support its patient navigator staff at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Stroger Hospital received $250,000 for its Breast Cancer High Risk Screening Program, which will provide more than 400 underserved women with risk assessment services, genetic counseling and testing.
The Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force received $250,000 for its efforts to reduce the disparity in breast cancer mortality between Chicago’s black and white residents. The Task Force was established in 2008 with a $1 million award raised at the Avon Walk.
University of Chicago received $150,000 to support research to determine the role that viruses and inflammation may play in the development of breast cancer.
Indiana University received $300,000 to support research to determine if telomere dysfunction can help determine breast cancer risk and identify women and men who should be screened more frequently.
The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University, the Avon Walk Chicago medical sponsor and home of the Avon Foundation Breast Care Center of Excellence and the Avon Breast Cancer Research Laboratories, received $750,000 to provide access to breast care for low income women at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the Erie Family Health Center and support five new research projects to identify and better understand new therapies to fight breast cancer.
Helping Her Live program, a neighborhood-wide effort in North Lawndale and Humboldt Park, received $1.25 million to conduct comprehensive “community navigation” outreach to black, Latina and other low-income women in these neighborhoods. The program will educate more than 25,000 women and men and link thousands of women to screening, diagnostic and treatment services at Mount Sinai Hospital and other Avon Safety Net Hospitals in Chicago.
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Rocky Mountains, CO: June 25 – 26
University of Colorado received $550,000 to support patient access to care programs, the Comadre Program and Project Survivorship Outreach to Latinas. In addition, the grant will support six research projects that aim to understand why breast cancer sometimes recurs and also to develop new treatments for the disease.
Denver Health & Hospital Corp. received $250,000 to support its patient navigator program and the purchase of a dedicated breast ultrasound unit.
The Children’s Treehouse Foundation of Denver received $90,000 to provide education and assistance to families with children when a parent is facing breast cancer.
The Foundation also awarded grants to three organizations as part of the Avon Foundation’s national grants program, the Avon Breast Health Outreach Program (BHOP), a network of 125 organizations that provide outreach and breast health education to the public. The beneficiaries will use the grants to educate Colorado’s communities about breast cancer and the importance of early detection and will link nearly 3,500 people to screening and educate thousands more through health fairs and grassroots efforts throughout Colorado. The grants include:
Health Promotion of La Clinica Tepayac of Denver received a grant of $40,000;
Pueblo Community Health Center of Pueblo, CO received a grant of $35,000;
The Women's Resource Center of Fort Collins, CO received a grant of $35,000
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San Francisco: July 9 - 10
The Avon Comprehensive Breast Center at San Francisco General Hospital, one of the Avon Foundation’s eight flagship programs nationwide, received $750,000 to support its mobile mammography program, as well as a high-risk genetic clinic, community outreach programs and three breast cancer research projects. The Avon Comprehensive Breast Center has performed more than 55,000 mammograms and more than 3,500 breast health procedures since opening with Avon Foundation support in 2004. This grant brings Avon Foundation support for the Center to more than $21 million over the past 10 years.
Project Open Hand of San Francisco received $200,000 to support the Homebound Critically Ill Program that specifically provides meals, grocery services and education programs for breast cancer patients and their families.
The Marin County Department of Health & Human Services of San Rafael, CA, received $150,000 to support a research project that is developing a saliva-based test to assess breast cancer risk.
Zero Breast Cancer of San Rafael, CA, received $125,000 to support community research to better understand the genetic and environmental factors that may be involved in breast cancer risk.
The Avon Foundation also awarded five grants to further strengthen the Avon Safety Net program, which consists of more than 100 hospitals across the country that ensure women and men who might otherwise fall through the cracks of the healthcare system have access to high quality breast cancer services. The Safety Net grants include:
Alameda County Medical Center, the Avon Walk San Francisco medical sponsor based in Oakland, CA, received a grant of$250,000
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation – St. Luke’s of San Francisco received a grant of $140,000
Women's Cancer Resource Center of Oakland, CA received a grant of $125,000
Cancer Resource Center of Mendocino County, received a grant of $125,000
Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic of Oakland, CA, received a grant of $125,000
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2011 grant information will be posted upon completion of the 2011 event. Grants listed below are from our 2010 event
SANTA BARBARA, CA: Sept 11 -12, 2010
Project Angel Food received $125,000 to support meal delivery and nutritional counseling services for people fighting breast cancer and their families throughout Los Angeles County. CEO Margaret Steele accepted the grant.
Six grants that will strengthen the Avon Safety Net program in Southern California. Avon Safety Net Grants fund a network of more than 100 hospitals and community clinics across the country supported by the Avon Foundation to ensure that women and men without insurance or resources have access to high quality breast health services:
Breast Cancer Resource Center of Santa Barbara received a $25,000 grant, accepted by Executive Director Silvana Kelly
Antelope Valley Community Clinic in Lancaster, CA, received a $100,000 grant, accepted by Erika Banuelos, the breast cancer management program coordinator
Cancer Center of Santa Barbara received a $100,000 grant, accepted by President Rick Scott
Northridge Hospital Foundation received a $110,000 grant, accepted by Lori Muir, service line director
Saint Johns Hospital & Health Center in Santa Monica received a $150,000 grant, accepted by Dr. Armando Giuliano, center director
Council of Community Clinics in San Diego received $150,000, accepted by Program Director Nicole Howard.
UCLA Foundation received $180,000 to support Avon Foundation breast imaging fellowships at the Iris Cantor Cancer Center for Breast Imaging and UCLA Santa Monica Women’s Imaging Centers. Dr. Larry Bassett, director of the Breast Imaging Fellowship Program, accepted the grant.
UCLA Center of Integrative Oncology received a grant for $300,000 to manage a multi-institutional research study to determine if biomarkers found in breast fluid can accurately predict breast cancer risk and outcomes. Care Felix, senior research study coordinator, accepted the grant.
John Wayne Cancer Institute received $300,000 to support a research study investigating the role of one biomarker in triple negative breast cancer. Dr. Xiaojiang Cui accepted the grant.
Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation received $740,000 to support the work of the Love/Avon Army of Women, which is changing the way breast cancer research is done by significantly reducing the time it takes to recruit research study volunteers and encouraging researchers to study the changes happening in healthy women before breast cancer develops to learn how to stop it. President and Founder Dr. Susan Love accepted the grant.
The Avon Breast Cancer Center at the UCLA-Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and Olive View Medical Center, one of eight flagship Avon Breast Centers nationwide, received $750,000 to support the Avon Cares For Life Program, which includes on-site patient navigation, survivorship programs, a high risk clinic and clinical trials. Program Manager Lori Viveros accepted the grant.
NEW YORK, NY: Oct 16 - 17, 2010
Young Survival Coalition received $85,000 to support efforts to educate the medical, research and breast cancer communities about the unique needs of breast cancer patients under the age of 40. Karen Borkowsky Kennedy, board member, accepted the grant.
God’s Love We Deliver received $200,000 to provide nutrition education and meals to breast cancer patients and their families. President and CEO Karen Pearl accepted the grant.
The Fund for Public Health New York received $80,000 to support a city-wide study to develop policy and program interventions to improve the quality of breast cancer care and access to services for medically underserved women. Dr. Anafidelia Tavares, Women’s Health Initiative Manager, accepted the grant.
Roswell Park Alliance Foundation received $130,000 to study whether a specific antigen produced by triple negative breast cancer can be used to create therapies that reduce recurrence rates and improve outcomes in people with this aggressive type of cancer. Jennifer Hickok, director of corporate partnerships, accepted the grant.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center received $300,000 to develop a test panel of genes that can identify breast cancer patients at high risk for metastasis to help determine the aggressiveness of treatment needed. Associate Director Raquel Nogueira accepted the grant.
The Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Center at New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center – one of eight Avon Breast Centers across the United States – received $1,020,000. The grant will continue to fund care for thousands of underserved women in a state-of-the art mammography center, and will support breast cancer research, clinical trials and imaging fellowships. Andria Castellanos, Chief Operating Officer for the Milstein Hospital Building, and Dr. Ramon Pardons, Avon Professor of Pathology and Medicine Leader, accepted the grants.
Eight grants that further strengthen the Avon Safety Net program in the New York region were also awarded. Avon’s Safety Net currently funds more than 100 hospitals across the country to ensure that all women have access to quality breast cancer services and care, regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay. The grants included:
You Can Thrive Foundation received $70,000 to support access to holistic, complementary and alternative care for low income breast cancer patients. President Luanne Halpern accepted the award.
Breast Treatment Task Force received $80,000 for patient navigation services. Dr. Julia Smith, director of breast cancer screening and prevention, accepted the award.
Brookdale Hospital Medical Center received $90,000 for a patient navigation program targeting African American and Caribbean American women in Brooklyn. Dr. Sharon Koehler, physician in charge of breast health services, accepted the award.
Northern Westchester Hospital received $110,000 to provide diagnostic and care navigation for Latina populations. Toni Aurigemma, program and clinical coordinator, accepted the grant.
Long Island Medical Foundation received $122,000 to support patient navigation in Nassau County. Christine Mancuso, director of the cancer screening program, accepted the award.
Newark Beth Israel Hospital received $125,000 to extend patient navigation in Newark. Lucille Chmiel, certified breast patient navigator, accepted the grant.
Metropolitan Hospital Center received $150,000 to provide coordinated breast health education, navigation and care in Harlem. Coordinating Manager Alma Rockaway accepted the grant.
Avon Safety Net Program at Bellevue Hospital, a program of the NYU Cancer Center and Bellevue Collaborative, received $275,000. Dr. Shubha Dhage, co-director of the Bellevue Breast Clinic, accepted the grant.
CHARLOTTE, NC: Oct 23 - 24, 2010
Randolph Hospital in Asheboro, NC, received $100,000 to launch a patient navigation program to better reach the medically underserved in rural Randolph County. Executive Director Stacey Bannister accepted the grant.
Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC, received $125,000 to support a patient navigation program that improves access to screening, diagnostics and treatment for underserved populations in South Carolina. Assistant Director, Cancer Prevention, Control and Outreach Debbie Bryant accepted the grant.
North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, NC, received $125,000 to support its community outreach and patient navigation services program, the Survivors in Service Navigation Network. Navigators work to reduce disparities in breast care among the African-American community by providing services to patients from the surrounding rural counties and adding genetic testing and counseling. Marcy Poletti, Oncology Service Line Program Administrator, accepted the grant.
Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, received $140,000 to supports the Mecklenburg County Breast Care Management program that provides outreach and patient navigation services to medically underserved women in Charlotte. The staff coordinates screening and care through four facilities: the Carolinas Hospital, the Blumenthal Cancer Center, and the Myers Park and Health Department Clinics. Breast Health Nurse Navigator Grace Sauzier accepted the grant.
Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, received $150,000 to support its community outreach and patient navigation program to improve access to screening, diagnostics and treatment to underserved populations in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and 11 surrounding counties. Maria Long, manager of the Prevention Education and Early Detection Program, accepted the grant.
Duke University received $250,000 to support outreach to underserved and low income women in the Raleigh, Greensboro, and Charlotte communities and to provide patient navigation services to women diagnosed with breast cancer. Stephanie Robertson, coordinator of the Navigator Program, accepted the grant.
In addition to these awards, the Avon Foundation has awarded nearly $260,000 of funds raised at the Avon Walk Charlotte to support community outreach programs through the Carolinas, including the Forsyth Medical Center Foundation in Winston-Salem, Rural Health Group in Roanoke Rapids, the YWCA of the Greater Triangle Area, Anderson Free Clinic, Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Health in Ridgeland, and Charleston Breast Center and Volunteers in Medicine in Hilton Head, SC. These new awards represent only a portion of the grants that will ultimately be made from funds raised this weekend.
Avon Walk for Breast Cancer 2009 Grants
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