Past Grantee Organizations

 

1998 Major Grant Awarda Totaling - $326,133

Including funding for the mammogram programs in the 9 Bay Area counties

The Community Breast Health Project (San Mateo)

Provides low-income, uninsured women, under the age of 40, access to and payment for mammography and other diagnostic breast cancer services.  Staff members contact referring agencies and community groups to enlist physicians to provide examination and follow-up medical treatment on a reduced fee basis.

The Community Health Clinic Ole (Napa)

Provides breast health screenings to low-income Latina women in Napa Valley who are uninsured and who have never had a clinical breast exam or mammogram

Solano Coalition for Better Health Care (Vallejo)

Provides breast cancer prevention and education to under-served women in Vallejo and Fairfield community clinics. In addition, provides mammograms, clinical, psychological and social services to women in need.

St. Luke’s Hospital Foundation West Bay Mobile Mammography Project (San Francisco)

Provides mammography screening within communities of San Francisco for underserved Bay Area Women

Bay View Hunters Point: Women Working Together for a Healthier Community (San Francisco)

Provides screening, information and breast self-exam demonstrations by community trained volunteers and city college nurses. The outreach program is a door to door program that provides breast healthcare awareness and information to primarily low income, African American women in Bay View Hunters Point

The Chinese Community Cancer Information Center (San Francisco)

Develop and broadcast Cantonese and Mandarin Public Service Announcements on breast health guidelines and breast self-exam instruction. The program offers Mandarin and Cantonese classes on breast health, as well as printing and distributing breast health guidelines to the Chinese Community.

The Breast Health Center at the California Pacific Medical Center (San

Francisco)

Psychological, social, diagnostic and educational services which provide emotional support, information and referrals to community resources to newly diagnosed patients. The grant also provides for training breast cancer survivors to visit patients before and after surgeries.

East Bay Agency for Children (Oakland)

Provides comprehensive, coordinated psychological, social and practical support to women with breast cancer and their families by increasing staff to provide support groups, home-based services and family advocacy services.

The Pittsburg Pre-School and Community Council (Pittsburg)

To educate and provide low and no income minority women, ages 40 and above, in East Contra Costa County with breast health information, clinical breast exams and mammograms using “Patient Navigators” (trained guide) to help women through the breast health care process.

The Women’s Cancer Resource Center (Berkeley)

To enable primarily under-served women facing a breast cancer diagnosis to speak immediately with a breast cancer survivor who is knowledgeable regarding traditional and complementary therapies, treatment and the availability of support services.

The Helene Smith Honorary Research Grant

A research grant to the Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic to establish a training program and manual in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The manual will be make available to practitioners throughout the state and nation. This program will treat and study women with breast cancer by evaluating and discussing acupuncture and herbal treatment plans.

Enabling Grants ($5,000 or less)

Healing Journeys (Aptos)

To fund the “Cancer as a Turning Point” Conference

Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley, Inc. (San Jose)

Expansion costs for the “Mending Nations” quilting and screening program.

Margaret Cruz Latina Foundation (San Francisco)

Funding for The Capacity Building Initiative

Mount Zion Health Systems, Inc. (Berkeley)

Funding for Phase Three of the Mother’s Living Stories Project.

Pittsburg Pre-School and Community Council, Inc (Pittsburg)

Funding for breast cancer screening and rescreening

Community Health Library of Los Gatos (Los Gatos)

Funding the purchase of books addressing breast cancer issues.

ValleyCare Health Library (Pleasanton)

Funding the purchase of books to update the collection of breast cancer treatment and breast health books.

Carmelita Schrerer Scholarship (Santa Cruz)

To fund registration at the Y-Me Conference Symposium on Breast Cancer in African Women

San Francisco State University Mammography Project (San Francisco)

To provide mammograms and clinical breast-exams through an outreach program where Latina students bring their maternal relatives to the University’s health services clinic

Centro de Servicios Support Group for Spanish Speaking Women (Union City)

To provide a new program that will provide a support group and access to services for Spanish speaking Latina women diagnosed with breast cancer in Southern Alameda County

WomenCare Latina Support Group Project (Santa Cruz)

To provide support and advocacy services to Spanish speaking Latina Women with cancer through outreach services and support groups. Additionally, free psychosocial and psychospiritual support that is culturally appropriate to Latina women with breast cancer and their families.