Past Grantee Organizations

 

2000 Grant Program Summary

Mammography Program $100,000

$100,000 to provide mammography screening for underserved women in the six county Bay Area including $76,082 in Major Grants

The Community Breast Health Project (San Mateo)

$35,000 to provide low-income, uninsured women under age 40 access to and payment for mammography and other diagnostic breast cancer services. Outreach 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 Olé (Napa)

$13,500 to provide appropriate breast health screenings to low-income Latina women in Napa Valley who are uninsured and who may have never have had a clinical breast exam or mammography

Solano Coalition for Better Health Care (Vallejo)

$27,582 to provide breast cancer prevention education to traditionally underserved female clients in five community clinics in Vallejo and Fairfield, facilitate mammograms, and link women identified as needing treatment with clinical and psychosocial services.

$10,000 to St. Luke’s Hospital Foundation West Bay Mobile Mammography Project for Underserved Bay Area Women (San Francisco)

$3,375 to SFSU Mammography Projects(San Francisco)

$5,000 to Centro De Servicios Support Group for Spanish Speaking Women (Union City)

$5,000 to WomenCare Latina Support Project (Santa Cruz)

Two 1999 Special Mammography Grants went to to SFSU and Community Health Clinic Olé (Napa) for $2,750 each

Major Grants – totaling $226,133

The Bayview Hunters Point Healthcare Task Force (San Francisco)

To provide ongoing breast cancer peer support, breast healthcare awareness, and resources such as educational materials and teaching skills needed for early detection of breast cancer to low income women in the Bayview Hunter’s Point neighborhood.

The Chinese Community Cancer Information Center (San Francisco)

To develop and broadcast Cantonese and Mandarin PSA’s on breast health guidelines and breast self-exam instruction, offer Mandarin and Cantonese classes on breast health, and print and distribute breast health guidelines.