Komen Philadelphia Affiliate Community Grants Program

Each year, Susan G. Komen Philadelphia proudly distributes nearly $2 million in grants to 25-45 organizations in our fifteen-county service area to support breast cancer outreach programs. Our grantees are hard at work every day in our neighborhoods building bridges to all women - especially low-income, under-insured and uninsured populations - and connecting them with the resources that enrich and save lives. Representing some of the finest healthcare, community and family service organizations in our area, Komen Philadelphia Affiliate grantees are educate entire communities, replace helplessness with hope, and empower all generations and cultures to live in a world with breast cancer without living in fear... regardless of race, financial status, education or background.


 

2013-2014 Komen Philadelphia Community Grants Program

For fiscal year 2013-2014, the Komen Philadelphia Affiliate is distributing more than $1.7 million to 31 organizations in our service area. 


In total, the grantee programs funded are expected to accomplish the following:

  • Referrals to mammograms: 6,400

  • Screening mammograms performed: 4,399

  • Diagnostic services performed: 1,949

  • Clinical breast exams: 3,295

  • Outreach contacts: 24,355

  • Education contacts: 8,715

  • Teatment assistance provided to breast cancer patients in need: 347

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2013-2014 Grantees, Funded Programs and Grant Type

 

Abington Memorial Hospital: Closing the Gap (grant type: Screening/Treatment)

 

Albert Einstein Medical Center: Women In Need (WIN) Program (grant type: Screening/Treatment)

 

Allentown Health Bureau: Breast Cancer Education and Screening for Uninsured/Underinsured Women (grant type: Education)

 

Bebashi: Our Bodies (grant type: Education)

 

Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia: Breast Health Education and Support Services (grant type: Education)

 

Christiana Care Health Services: The Pink Ribbon Breast Program: Delaware's Comprehensive Community Network (grant type: Screening/Treatment)

 

Cooper University Hospital: Camden County Screening Project (grant type: Screening/Treatment)

 

Crozer-Chester Foundation: Crozer Cares (grant type: Screening/Treatment)

 

Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition: Bilingual Screening Navigator Program (grant type: Education)

 

Delco Memorial Foundation: Delco Cares: A Comprehensive Breast Health Initiative (grant type: Screening/Treatment)

 

Delaware Valley Community Health: Women's Health Project (grant type: Education)

 

Drexel University College of Medicine: Drexel University College of Medicine's Women's Health Project (grant type: Screening/Treatment)

 

Greater Philadelphia Overseas Chinese Association: Breast Health Education and Breast Cancer Prevention Program for Underinsured and Uninsured Ethnic Chinese Women (grant type: Education)

 

Health Promotion Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania: Navigating, Educating and Supporting Together (NEST) (grant type: Education)

 

La Comunidad Hispana: A Program of Breast Health Education and Screening for Latinas in Chester County (grant type: Education)

 

Lancaster General Hospital: Lancaster General Breast Health Program (grant type: Screening/Treatment)

 

Mazzoni Center: Special Outreach to Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities (grant type: Education)

 

Memorial Hospital (York, PA): Breast Health Education Program (grant type: Education)

 

Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance (MANNA): Home-Delivered Meals for People with Breast Cancer (grant type: Support)

 

National Nursing Centers Consortium: Southwest Breast Health Initiative (grant type: Education)

 

Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center: Lourdes Pretty In Pink (grant type: Education)

 

Penn Asian Senior Services (PASS): Overcoming Barriers to Breast Health for Asian Immigrant Women (grant type: Education)

 

Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Ambulatory Health Services: Breast Cancer Screening and Treatment Project (grant type: Screening/Treatment)

 

Practice Without Pressure: Training Mammography Technicians to Support Women with Disabilities (grant type: Education)

 

Puerto Rican Unity for Progress: Proyecto Salud para Mujeres (grant type: Education)

 

Sacred Heart Hospital: Allentown's BBC - Beating Breast Cancer (grant type: Screening/Treatment)

 

SEAMAAC: Breast Health Program (grant type: Education)

 

St. Joseph Medical Center: SJMC Better Breast Health Initiative - Promotora Patient Navigation Project (grant type: Screening/Treatment)

 

The Breathing Room Foundation: Temporary Gap Funding - Giving Hope Program (grant type: Support)

 

Thomas Jefferson University: Jefferson's Breast Cancer Screening and Treatment Program (grant type: Screening/Treatment)

 

Tunnell Cancer Center at Beebe Medical Center: Sharing Our Story, Saving Our Sisters (grant type: Screening/Treatment)

 

For a booklet describing each grantee and their funded program, please contact Ann Ritter. 

 

Click here for a list of grantees over the past 6 years.


 

For more information on being a grantee, please click here.