Current Grant Recipients

This year, Komen Greater Nashville is funding over $602,000 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 2012 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 tenth annual Mammograms in May program.

The Siloam Family Health Center 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 Mulit- Ethnic 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.

The  After Breast Cancer (ABC) Program offered by the YMCA of Middle Tennessee provides health and wellness guidance, education, encouragement and support  for breast cancer survivors through a free 16-week program.

The Vanderbilt Center for Community Health Solutions

Facilitating community solutions to problems that impact health.

Through the Breast Health Initiative provided by the Coalition for Healthy Aging at Vanderbilt, underserved women in rural, low-income, and minority communities will receive education that leads to early screening, informed care and the ability to advocate for themselves in the health care system

The Casting for Recovery- Tennessee 2 Retreat aims to enhance the quality of life for breast cancer survivors and give women the opportunity to connect with others on a similar journey.

Hope Community Development Corporation

Just A Sister Away (JASA) Breast Health Program is an outreach and empowerment project that educates African-American women on the benefits of mammography and connects them to mammography screening.

Tennessee Women’s Theater Project

The Tennessee Women’s Theater Project is presenting a new play examining the experience of breast cancer from the African American perspective. The play is being written by renowned playwright and NAACP Image Award winner, Regina Taylor.