Current Grant Recipients

This year, Komen Greater Nashville is funding over $690,000 in local projects selected by our independent Grant Review Panel as those that will have the greatest impact in serving underserved women in our service area.  Susan G. Komen for the Cure is not a direct service provider.

List of 2011 Community Grant Recipients

 



ACS’s partnership with Komen Greater Nashville will help remove significant barriers to cancer treatment by providing essential funding for the continued implementation and expansion of patient support activities in the Memorial Foundation Hope Lodge.

This project provides free screening mammograms and follow up care for uninsured women over the age of 40 years as part of Nashville General Hospital’s eighth annual Mammograms in May program and to extend the nurse navigator program throughout the year to assist women with mammography and cancer treatment services.

The purpose of the Witness Project is to increase breast health knowledge and early detection among African American women by providing education and referrals to breast health services.




The Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation (MPCF) offers one-on-one personalized guidance for adults impacted by a cancer diagnosis. Our supportive service team is focused on reaching clients early in their diagnosis and offer important information to breast cancer patients at a critical time, when they are considering their treatment options, connecting to resources within their community to help cope with the diagnosis and addressing the fears of a breast cancer diagnosis. All of our services are free of charge and available regardless of treatment facility.

The “Ladies for Life” breast cancer education program focuses on early detection and examinations for the uninsured and underinsured women of Rutherford County.  The clinic provided over 20,000 visits last year and functions as a community ministry, enlisting the financial and volunteer support of local churches.

This program provides breast cancer screening and education to low-income, uninsured women, many of whom are newly arrived immigrants and refugees.  Grant funds will provide clinical breast examinations and instruction in breast self-examination for 600 female patients.

The African American Breast Health Outreach brings culturally sensitive breast health educational materials to women in their own communities and provides potentially life-saving cancer screenings which otherwise, might be unaffordable.

The BeST (Breast Screening and Treatment) for Tennessee Women Project targets uninsured and underinsured women in the Greater Nashville area for breast screening, diagnostic and treatment services.  The goal of the project is to reach and serve at least 400 women by improving access, explaining procedures and case managing women who need further tests to rule out or confirm breast cancer.

Mission in motion is a Mobile Mammography outreach program by St. Thomas Health Services to bring mammography screenings directly to women where they work, live, and shop. This program targets two populations: employed women, and women who are uninsured or underinsured throughout the 12 county area.

TBCC’s Emergency Access Fund was established to provide financial assistance for individuals who are undergoing treatment for breast cancer and who have found themselves in a dire situation as a result of increasingly large medical bills or the inability to work.  This fund enables recipients, often single mothers and elderly women, to avoid being evicted from their apartment, having their home foreclosed, having utilities disconnected, being unable to pay medical bills and possibly foregoing purchasing prescribed medications.