For a minimum donation of $15, send someone you love a special Valentine's Day "KomenGram" letting them know a donation was made to Komen SF by you in their honor. By this spring a minimum of 25% of your donation will be dedicated to funding breast cancer research and up to 75% will be in our Bay Area community providing crucial breast cancer education, screening, support and treatment service. It's simple to do! Click here to get started.  Or see a sample.

Shop with purpose and add some bling to your wardrobe!   To purchase with the purpose to end breast cancer forever visit the official merchandise website of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, ShopKomen.com.  25% of your merchandise purchase price will benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure® in the fight against breast cancer. Visit ShopKomen.com!

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Komen Affiliates Call On State to Nix Cuts to Key Program

Feb 8, 2010 - Join us at the State Capitol with the rallying cry "Every Woman Counts!". We need you, your voice and your passion for change to let our elected officials know we find these cuts unacceptable. Click here to see the event details.

January 20, 2010 -  Assemblymembers Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) and Pedro Nava (D-Santa Barbara) are seeking an audit of the state’s breast cancer screening program – Every Woman Counts. Click here.

December 18, 2009 - Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein have urged the Governor to rescind the cuts to the Every Woman Counts program. To see their letter to the Governor, click here.

December 15, 2009 - To see our request to the Governor to turn back these cuts and ensure the state's neediest women will continue to have access to lifesaving breast cancer screening, click here.

Sacramento, December 10, 2009 - Breast cancer survivors and advocates from all seven California Affiliates of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® signaled their alarm today at the recently announced cuts to California’s Every Woman Counts program, which would effectively shut the doors to breast cancer screening services for 1.2 million low-income and uninsured women for the first six months of 2010. Read all about it.

December 11, 2009 - Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Founder, Ambassador Nancy Brinker, also asks that Governor Schwarzenegger turn back the cuts to the Every Woman Counts program. To read her letter to the Governor, click here.

December 11, 2009 - To read a letter sent to Governor Schwarzenegger from some members of the CA Congressional delegation about their concern over the recent announcement by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to reduce access to mammograms to low-income women, click here.

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To hear Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker speak about the latest issues in breast cancer today, watch her ABC7 View from the Bay interview (bottom of our Breast Cancer Health page) Nancy Brinker interview with Janelle Wang

To learn more about the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer Forever and our vision of a world without breast cancer, click here to watch the inspirational video We Will.