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Upcoming Grants Workshop
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
10 a.m.-3 p.m.
AHEC Office, 302 Medical Park Drive, Suite 110
Walterboro, SC
$25 per attendee
This is designed for 501(c)3 nonprofits providing breast health-related services that have never applied or received a grant from the Komen Lowcountry Affiliate.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Trident Health Finders, Northwoods Mall
North Charleston, SC
$25 per attendee
This is designed for seasoned grant recipients who want to grow their grant goals and budget.
Grant Information and RFP
NOTE: The 2009-10 RFP is currently being developed and will be available the end of July. Check back soon.
Small Grant Application (DOC) Budget Form For Small Grants (PDF) Questions? E-mail us2008-2009 Grants Awarded
Pink Prevention
Allendale County Hospital
Awarded: $36,200
The Allendale County Hospital has once again been selected as a recipient of a grant from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Lowcountry Affiliate, which will provide funding for screening and follow-up mammograms to women ages 21-64, who are uninsured or under-insured and do not qualify for Best Chance Network. There will be limited funding for physician's office visits. This grant, entitled Pink Prevention, will provide services to women living in Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell and Hampton counties. If you feel that you qualify for these services please contact Paula Wall at the Allendale County Hospital at 803-632-3311 ext. 240.
Think Pink
Regional Medical Center Orangeburg
Awarded: $57,630
This grant will provide education to the women of our area in helping them make informed decisions about their breast health care. The grant will provide funds for women, ages 35-46 with limited or no insurance and a resident of Orangeburg County, South Carolina to receive a screening mammogram. We will also serve women with physician's referral for a diagnostic mammogram/ultrasound. 148 women had mammograms under this program last year.
Women 47-64 that do not qualify for Best Chance Network will be accepted into this program this year. (Best Chance will verify.)
Lunch and learn sessions will be held through out the area to get information out to women that need to be aware that early detection of breast cancer is the answer. Mammographic images will be shown in these sessions so women can see actual images of breast cancers that are so small they will never be felt by the patients themselves. We show how self breast exams are conducted and we have question and answer session.
Please call Rebecca Hejl at the Breast Health Center, 803-395-2841 for further information.
Just In Case You Ever Wondered
Beaufort Jasper Hampton Comprehensive Health
Awarded: $75,000
An estimated 18 percent of Lowcountry women, who would benefit from mammography, some 4,000 women, are uninsured or have inadequate insurance coverage. African-American women are twice as likely to die of cancer than are white women after diagnosis. The Hispanic population is steadily growing and do not qualify for medicare. The goal is to provide community outreach education targeting African Americans and Hispanic, direct subsidy of clinical breast exams and mammograms for women aged 35 and older, who live at or below 200 percent of poverty, are not insured or underinsured and need additional funding for diagnostic tests.
Objectives of Grant Include:
- 1,000 women will receive education materials and counseling through outreach programs for breast cancer awareness and early screening.
- Provides 470 clinical breast exams and mammograms for the target population.
- Follow-up care with maximum per patient @ $2,000 and budgeted maximum total per grant year.
- Provide six outreach women health programs, providing clinical breast exams and mammograms in collaboration with Beaufort Memorial Hospital.
Volunteers in Medicine Mammogram Program
Volunteers in Medicine
Awarded: $63,986
Mobile Mammography Screening for Underserved Communities
Hollings Cancer Center
Awarded: $18,600
Since 1998 the Hollings Cancer Center (HCC) Mobile Health Unit (MHU) has provided cancer screening, prevention, early detection, and health maintenance counseling to empower individuals in rural South Carolina communities to become more proactive in their own health care management. The purpose of this project is to reduce breast cancer mortality through early detection and screening by providing digital mobile mammography screening to uninsured and underinsured low country women.
Screening saves lives. Schedule your mammogram today! Call (843) 792-0878.
Saving Women's Lives Though "Inreach"
Charleston Breast Center
Awarded: $59,800
The Charleston Breast Center (CBC) was founded on the commitment to provide outreach and education to women throughout the Lowcountry and coastal communities. The CBC is a not-for-profit, community-based, medical facility, that provides expedited breast health care services. The Charleston Breast Center has been selected as a recipient of a grant from the Lowcountry Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the cure to provide funding for, Saving Women's Lives Through "Inreach Day." It is a day where the CBC sets aside for women from our partners, and strives to perform all necessary exams in one office visit. We are able to reach women whose breast health needs are traditionally underserved: ethnic minorities, the homeless, the uninsured and underinsured, the working poor and elderly. We provide breast health education, refreshments; assist with transportation to our facility, bags filled with breast health information, and donated personal items. Our goal is to further enhance this program and breast health education for our patients.
Breast Health Navigation for All Women: Building on Success
Roper St. Francis Foundation
Awarded: $15,000
The Breast Health Navigator Program (BHNP) at the Roper St. Francis Cancer Center will celebrate its fifth anniversary in 2008. The number of women who have received BHNP services through the Cancer Center has increased by more than 50% since its inception in 2003. Program enhancements are being made to improve the delivery and measurement of quality services to women in need of breast health care and education.
Grant funding for 2008-2009 will be used to build on the success of the existing program. Program initiatives will include: 1) continuation of free mammograms and breast ultrasounds for eligible low-income, uninsured women; 2) periodic free breast screening clinics that offer clinical breast examinations and breast health education; 3) a weekly pre-operative class for patients who are facing breast surgery and their families; and 4) formation of a consumer advisory panel to identify and guide key components of service excellence, from point of diagnosis through survivorship.
This grant will provide education to the women of our area in helping them make informed decisions about their breast health care. The grant will provide funds for women, ages 35-46 with limited or no insurance and a resident of Orangeburg County, South Carolina to receive a screening mammogram. We will also serve women with physician's referral for a diagnostic mammogram/ultrasound. 148 women had mammograms under this program last year.
Women 47-64 that do not qualify for Best Chance Network will be accepted into this program this year. (Best Chance will verify)
Please call Rebecca Hejl at the Breast Health Center , 803-395-2841 for further information.
"It's All About Me" GHS Breast Health Clinics
Georgetown Hospital System
Awarded: $62,644
Georgetown hospital system patients have been given great opportunities the best breast healthcare possible. Our seed money was provided by the Lowcountry affiliate of Susan G. Komen the Cure. Digital mammography revolutionized breast screening and diagnostics and GHS has brought this modality to its patients through the imagining center at Waccamaw Medical Park in Murrells Inlet, SC. Coupled with an aggressive program reaching the uninsured and underinsured populations with free mammograms, there is no excuse now women to not receive screening. Systems are in place and active for education and transportation. With this success comes a need to expand our diagnostics services. GHS will bring a second digital mammography operation to Georgetown Memorial Hospital serving patients on the south end of the county. Additionally, Susan G. Komen for the Cure Lowcountry affiliate is helping fund Saturday clinics at the imaging center and GMH to provide on-sight clinical breast exams by physicians, education, high risk assessment, same-day mammograms and follow-up lab work if needed. Through the GHS breast program we encourage patients to say "It's all about me" and to visit our clinics where screening, education and followup are readily available.
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