Current Grant Recipients

In 2012, Komen Puget Sound Awarded $2.1 million to local organizations and $745,000 to global research.
Our emphasis is on funding culturally appropriate programs that close the gap in breast cancer disparities for underserved individuals living in our 16-county service area. We will provide vital health and breast cancer services to over 33,000 individuals this year.

These following projects have been selected by our independent Grant Review Panel as those that will have the greatest impact. Please note that Susan G. Komen for the Cure is not a direct service provider.

Learn more about our grant making process, click here.

Representatives from our 2012 Grantee Organizations at the Community Impact Celebration

EARLY DETECTION/EDUCATION_________________________________________________________

Funds culturally competent delivery of screening and diagnostic mammography services, outreach programs that facilitate access to breast cancer screening, and education focused on the importance of breast cancer screening and early detection.

$1,300,555 - Washington State Department of Health
Komen Breast Cancer Screening & Diagnostic Program: This year, Komen Puget Sound is investing $1.3 million dollars to the Washington State Breast, Cervical, and Colon Health Program (BCCHP) to provide breast cancer screenings for low-income women. The funding will provide lifesaving mammograms to 14,000 low-income women living in our region.

$126,287 - Franciscan Foundation
Breast Cancer Navigator Program: This funding will improve education and access to screening, diagnosis and treatment for Asian, Pacific Islander, African American, Hispanic, Native American and sexual minority women in Tacoma/Pierce County.

$98,729 - International Community Health Services
Breast Health Outreach, Prevention & Education Program: This funding will provide breast health outreach, education and screening to low-income, limited English-speaking Chinese, Filipina, Korean, Mien, Samoan and other Pacific Islander and Vietnamese women in Seattle/King County.

$33,518 - Lutheran Community Services Northwest — Familias Unidas
Nuestra Salud: This funding will promote breast cancer awareness and screening in the Hispanic/Latino community of Snohomish and Skagit Counties.

$25,052 - Senior Services of Seattle-King County
Breast Health Education & Screening Program: This funding will provide breast health community outreach and education for seniors, especially women of color.

$62,282 - South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency
Native Women’s Wellness Program: This funding will provide breast health outreach, education, screening and support to women in rural tribal communities in southwest Washington who rarely or never have been screened for breast cancer.

$65,367 - YWCA of Seattle/King County and Snohomish County
Opening Doors: This funding will provide education and mobile screenings for medically underserved and low-income African-American, Latina, sexual minority and homeless women.

PATIENT NAVIGATION___________________________________________________________________

Funding provides one-on-one patient navigation that assists breast cancer patients in accessing and understanding the medical system, helping ensure they receive the best possible treatment.

$18,402 - Center for MultiCultural Health
Sistah Connection — Patient Navigation for African American Women: This funding will provide assistance to African American women in King County to increase timely access to diagnostic and treatment services to ensure successful completion of treatment for breast cancer.

$26,116 - Citrine Health
Citrine Health’s Patient Navigator: Navigators will provide assistance to uninsured, low-income and/or rural breast cancer patients in Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom, Island and San Juan Counties to increase access to and completion of prescribed treatment.

$49,557 - Mason General Hospital
Breast Cancer Patient Navigation and Outreach: This funding will assist breast cancer patients during treatment and provide survivor support, awareness and screening for low-income women, Latinas, and women living in remote rural areas of Mason County.

$27,950 - UW Medicine | School of Medicine
Partnering with Patients to Improve Breast Cancer Care: Funding to Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Breast Health Cancer Program at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance will provide patient navigation services to low-income breast cancer patients.

PATIENT ASSISTANCE AND TREATMENT SUPPORT______________________________________

Funding for safety net programs for low-income breast cancer patients include financial assistance for rent/mortgage, prescriptions for medications not available through pharmaceutical assistance funds, transportation, utilities, food and nutritional supplements, medical supplies, COBRA insurance premiums, child care, personal hygiene, special clothing and dental care needed prior to chemotherapy. Treatment support services include culturally appropriate support groups, classes and resources relevant to breast cancer patients and survivors.

$266,186 - Cancer Lifeline
Komen Patient Assistance Fund: Cancer Lifeline administers Komen Puget Sound funds to provide assistance and support for low-income patients while they are in treatment for breast cancer.