LITTLE ROCK, ARK. (News Release) – Today a Arkansas Affiliate of Susan G. Komen distributed 16 grants totaling over $890,000 to Arkansas organizations.

This year outlines a 22nd year for a Komen classification to endowment grants to programs around a state who are operative in a quarrel opposite breast cancer.  These supports are primarily lifted by a Race for a Cure® chaired in 2015 by Jack Powell and Runway for a Cure® chaired by Coco Dorsey.  Also introduced was 2016 Race for a Cure ® Chair Shawna Long and 2016 Runway for a Cure® Chair Kathy Hall.

A sum of $895,484 was granted. Also announced was $268,000 of income lifted in Arkansas that will go directly into Komen National Research grants to find a heal for breast cancer.

“We are always unapproachable of a event to assistance a women in a state with extend funds,” pronounced Arkansas Affiliate Executive Director Sherrye McBryde. “Our grants are a approach outcome of a tough work of a volunteers and a munificence of a supporters. The recipients of these supports were selected since their innovative, evidence-based projects aligned with one or some-more aim priorities identified in a 2015 Komen Arkansas Community Profile. We wish to know a breast cancer needs of any village we serve. Every 4 years, a Arkansas Affiliate examines a impact of breast cancer within a use area by conducting an assessment, a Community Profile Report, that ensures that a efforts (community outreach, collaborations, grants and open process work) residence a biggest needs in any community. The full 2015 Community Profile can be found on a website during www.komenarkansas.org”

This year a largest extend awarded was $167,992 and a smallest awarded was $11,792. The Komen Arkansas Affiliate initial awarded grants totaling $78,700 in 1994.

“We were so gratified to be means to lift roughly $1 million dollars that will have a approach impact on a women and group of Arkansas fighting breast cancer,” says Komen Arkansas Board Chair Matt Propst. “Whether they quarrel for someone they love, or quarrel for themselves, or for their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, or children, we join them in their efforts to exterminate this disease. We worked tough to acquire this income and we are so unapproachable to discharge to such trustworthy, valuable, impactful programs. We are also gratified to send $268,000 to Komen National for investigate directly associated to a diagnosis and heal of breast cancer. Our quarrel continues until a heal is found.”

The Affiliate awarded a top honor, a Hickingbotham Award for Service, to

Encore for Women’s Health (Encore).  Encore is a private non-profit breast cancer control module that provides giveaway navigation assistance and tiny amounts of financial assistance to medically underserved Arkansas group and women who need breast health services. Its goal is to assistance revoke a genocide rate of breast cancer in Arkansas, and to revoke a disastrous impact of breast cancer on a lives of medically underserved Arkansas women and their families. The module began as YWCA EncorePlus in 1996.

In a 19-year history, Encore has worked with some-more than 15,000 low income women to teach them about breast cancer and assistance them entrance screening or evidence exams and diagnosis and survivor follow-up. Encore has reached 199,000 women with information about breast cancer and early detection. 241 women were diagnosed with breast cancer after enrolling with Encore, receiving progressing diagnoses since of Encore’s help. Arkansas Department of Health has awarded Encore a Josetta Wilkins Award for Organization Service, and CancerCare awarded Encore a consequence endowment for services to clients.

The Hickingbotham Award is named in respect of businessman Frank Hickingbotham and his family who were first sponsors of a Komen Arkansas Race for a Cure.

The Promise of One Award, determined in 2007 by Susan G. Komen national, is awarded to dual internal people any year in approval of their well-developed proffer contribution. This year’s recipients were volunteers Isabelle Monroe and Coco Dorsey.

Grants awarded this year are:

∙ $167,992 to Greater Delta Alliance for Health in Lake Village/Pine Bluff for a “Access Project Pink/Reach Every Women” program

∙ $123,019 to Encore for Women’s Health in Little Rock for a “Encore Navigation Project”

∙ $87,642 to a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock for a “Eliminating Barriers to Early Detection: Mobile Mammography” program

∙ $71,742 Baxter Regional Hospital Foundation in Mountain Home for a “Mobile Mammography Unit” program

∙ $62,326 to Arkansas Hospice in North Little Rock for a “Funding Charitable Care Breast Cancer Hospice Patients” program

∙ $57,144 to St. Bernards in Jonesboro for a “Bringing Mobile Mammography and Breast Health Education to Your Community” program 

∙ $50,000 to CHI St. Vincent Health Systems in Little Rock for a “Services to Breast Cancer Survivors” program

∙ $46,328 to a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock for a “Improving Access to Breast Imaging and Intervention” program

∙ $41,471 to St. Bernards in Jonesboro for a “BreastAssured XII” program

∙ $36,993 to 1st Choice Healthcare, Inc. in Corning for a “Breast Health Awareness Program”

∙ $35,000 to CARTI in Little Rock for a “Access to Treatment-Overcoming Barriers” program 

∙ $35,000 to Encore for Women’s Health in Little Rock for a “Direct Financial Assistance” program

∙ $32,629 to White County Medical Foundation in Searcy for a “Screening, Diagnosis, and Intervention” program

∙ $21,406 to Baptist Health Foundation in Little Rock for a “Early Detection Program”

∙ $15,000 to Baptist Health Foundation in Little Rock for a “Genetic Screening Program”

∙ $11,792 to Ozark Health Medical Center in Clinton for a “Changing Lives Through Early Detection” program

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