Grants 2010-2011 Press Release

GREATER AMARILLO AFFILIATE OF SUSAN G. KOMEN FOR THE CURE®

AWARDS COMMUNITY GRANTS TO EDUCATE, SAVE LIVES 

Breast Cancer Organization Funds over $1,000,000.00 in Unmet Breast Cancer Needs

Throughout Panhandle Area 

Amarillo, Texas- March 25, 2010 – Determined to save lives and end breast cancer forever, the Greater Amarillo Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® has awarded 4 grants totaling $275,000.00 to programs providing breast cancer services in the Panhandle area.  The Greater Amarillo Affiliate has now invested over $1,000,000.00 dedicated to outreach and education throughout the Panhandle Area since inception in 2003.  

“To meet needs we have discovered right here in our community, this year’s grant slate specifically addresses women in the Panhandle by providing education, support, and services and properly fitted prosthesis; as well as mammograms to underserved and uninsured women,” said Executive Director, Lisa Hoff Davis. 

The Komen Amarillo grants are important due to high incidents of mortality in several of the 26 counties including Gray, Hansford, Potter, Randall, Dallam, and Carson.  These counties are home to 67% of the Panhandle’s population while also representing high incidence and counties with service providers.  The counties are also adjacent to counties without service providers so the Affiliate can investigate rural versus urban obstacles to service.  The grantees will target women in these rural areas and focus on low income and minority women by educating, serving, and screening. 

The Komen Amarillo 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 Greater Amarillo 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 Panhandle community, the Komen Greater Amarillo 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 a local grant application and review process consistent with the organization’s standards and mission.

For more information on the specific grants awarded, click here. 

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 Greater Amarillo Affiliate   

Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever, and in 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The Greater Amarillo Affiliate is part of the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting breast cancer. Through events like the Komen Amarillo’s Race for the Cure, the Greater Amarillo Affiliate has invested over $1,000,000.00 in community breast cancer programs in the 26 counties of the Texas Panhandle. Up to 75 percent of net proceeds generated by the Affiliate stay in the Panhandle. The remaining 25 percent funds national breast cancer research. For more information, call 806.354.9706 or visit KomenAmarillo.org.