Possible New Komen Grantees

Patient Support
o Provide meals, housing, and other non-medical support for breast
cancer patients
Project Angel heart delivers meals in Colorado
Sense of Security provides grants to breast cancer patients that
can help pay for housing, utilities, transportation
Spa 4 the Pink is a wellness spa
Breast Cancer Solutions in Inland Empire provides temporary
financial solutions
Cancer Action in Kansas City provides transportation, nutritional
supplements, prosthesis, and wigs
Surviving, Inc. in Atlanta provides wigs, prosthesis, and travel to
doctors offices
St. Rose Dominican Health Foundation in Las Vegas provides
post-mastectomy wellness classes and prosthesis fittings
Breast Cancer Emergency Fund in San Francisco pays breast
cancer patients bills
Lawyers
o Provide legal services to breast cancer patients such as employment
rights, wills, maintaining housing, etc.
Atlanta Legal Aid Society
Lymphedema
o Provide compression garments and education
Compression with Compassion in Atlanta provides garments
Emory Lymphedema Management Program in Atlanta
Norton Healthcare Foundation in Louisville provides garments
Research
o Georgia State University
o Native American Cancer Research in Colorado
o Know Your Genes in Louisville offers genetic counseling for high risk
families
YMCA
o Healthy behavior program in Kansas City
Girl Scouts
o Provides education materials to girls and their families in Charlotte
Support
o Sisters Breast Cancer Survivors Network provides counseling services
to patients and their family in LA
o Baptist Health: Living Beyond provides a Chaplin and social worker for
breast cancer patients families in Louisville
o Friend for Life is a support group in Louisville
o Gildas Club identifies and reduces stress during treatment in Kansas
City

Casting for Recovery is a support group that combines breast cancer

education and fly fishing in Louisville
Language Barriers
o Special Service for Groups in LA provides a translator at medical
appointments
o Boat People SOS Health Awareness and Promotion Program focuses on
Vietnamese women providing education materials in Vietnamese
language
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