Community Grants
At the end of each summer, Komen WNY issues a Request for Proposal (RFP) to organizations that provide breast cancer programs in Western New York. Grants run from April 1 to March 31.
Applications for the 2009-2010 grant period are now being accepted. Inquiries regarding the Community Grants Program should be directed to the Community Program Coordinator at deliajoslyn@komenwny.org or 716-523-9346.
Click below for materials:
2009-2010 RFP and Instructions
2009-2010 Community Grant Application Form
2009-2010 Community Grant Guide
2007 Grants Preparation Workshop PowerPoint presentation2007 Grants Preparation Workshop handouts (pdf Acrobat file)
Funded Community Grants
2008-2009 Komen Funded Community Grants
2007-2008 Komen Funded Community Grants
American Cancer Society - $60,000
ACS / Komen WNY Collaborative Project
The Regional American Cancer Society, Western New York Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, State Department of Health, County Breast Health Partnerships, and Cancer Information Services have collaborated for a campaign to reach 40,000 woman designated “in need of screening.” The collaborative group designed an incentive program that will offer women a $20 gift card just for getting a mammogram.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute - $28,601.00
Witness Project of Western New York
This project will provide direct education in the form of Witness Project educational programs in Buffalo (Roswell Park Cancer Institute) and Niagara Falls (Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center). The culturally competent evidence-based breast health education programs are designed to educate, raise awareness and increase the mammography rate among African American and medically underserved women in churches and community centers.
Allegany County Department of Health - $10,900.00
Komen Kares – Breast Cancer Support Services
This community based support program will help lessen the burden that breast cancer has on the Allegany County area. Komen Kares will provide education and awareness about breast cancer screening and early detection through material distribution, presentations and events. The project will also provide wigs and breast forms, help with transportation and financial assistance to those diagnosed with breast cancer.
Heritage Centers - $29,035.00
Phase III: Expanding Breast Health Education and Outreach for Women with Disabilities in Erie and Niagara Counties
This grant allows Heritage Centers to expand a project started in 2004 that provides breast health education and outreach for women with disabilities. Phase III involves collaboration with eight health and human service agencies within Erie and Niagara Counties. The project will utilize a “train the trainer” format to increase the number of women served.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute - $27,686.00
A Psychosocial Support Program for Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients and Their Families
This unique project involves development of a psychosocial support initiative to target women with metastatic breast cancer and their families. Components include social networking meetings, a day trip to the Rochester Breast Cancer Coalition’s annual metastatic breast cancer symposium and a weekend retreat.
Partners for Prevention/Chautauqua County Department of Health - $11,128.00
Tri-County Breast Screening Fund of Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties
This project will provide services to uninsured and underinsured women in Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties. The goal is to ensure that all women have equal access to care and allow the counties to offer the necessary screening services free of charge.
ECMC Lifeline Foundation, Inc. - $21,836.00
Expanded ECMC Breast Lifeline Program
This program will assist high-risk women with psychological and cultural barriers to obtain early breast cancer screening. Outreach will be conducted in at least six venues – ECMC ER, primary care centers, churches, WILLCARE homebound clients, food pantry clients and community events.
2006-2007 Komen Funded Community Grants
ECMC Lifeline Foundation - $29,386.00
Expanded ECMC Breast Lifeline Program
This program aims to assist women of low socioeconomic status through outreach and navigation. Education and support during treatment is provided through the ECMC Cancer Support Group Program.
Allegany County Department of Health- $8,700.00
Komen Kares – Breast Cancer Support Services
Komen Kares is a community based support program that helps lessen the burden that breast cancer has on the Allegany County area. The program provides education and awareness about breast cancer screening and early detection through distribution of education materials, presentations and awareness events. In addition, Komen Kares provides assistance for those in need of breast cancer screening or have been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Sheehan Memorial Hospital - $27,000.00
Take a Loved One for a Mammogram
This project aims to increase the number of minority women residing on the East Side and Lower West Side of Buffalo who receive mammograms. A vital project component is the use of Community Health Advocates who provide health information and referral services at the grass roots level.
Heritage Centers- $24,500.00
Phase II: Expanding Breast Health Education and Outreach for Women with Disabilities in Erie and Chautauqua Counties
This project provides breast health education and outreach to women with disabilities residing in urban/rural areas of Erie and Chautauqua Counties who experience barriers in receiving breast health education.
Chautauqua County Partners for Prevention - $11,360.00
Latina Breast Cancer Screening Clinics
In conjunction with local healthcare providers and the Chautauqua County Department of Health, semi-annual clinics were held to screen the county’s Latina women for breast cancer free of charge. The clinics provided translation services, childcare and transportation.
Sisters Network, Inc. - $10,000.00
Pink Ribbon Awareness Campaign
A national educational initiative of Sisters Network, Inc. is the Pink Ribbon Awareness Campaign. This is a faith based, educational outreach program, that reaches women in churches with information on how to access breast care services and resources. The focus of the project is to increase the number of women obtaining mammograms and general knowledge.
Hispanics United of Buffalo- $28,000.00
Sisters United in Health
This project provides outreach, presentations and incentives to support breast health among Western New York’s Latina population. The outreach targets women in need of preventative breast health care who are unaware of the benefits of mammography.
WCA Hospital - $27,375.00
WCA Hospital Cancer Care Patient Navigation Program
The WCA Patient Navigator is one constant link for the patient and their support network to help make sure no woman falls through the cracks due to lack of follow up within the system. Some of the tasks a patient navigator helps with are: bridging the cultural and linguistic gaps, finding financial resources, tracking appointments, coordinating transportation and referring to appropriate community services.
Pride Center - $13,000.00
Bust Out! Pride Center Breast Cancer Program
The program seeks to improve awareness of breast cancer risk factors, treatment options and support resources in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities through more intimate, home-based outreach; and to continue to revise and enhance health support referral information for the Pride Center/Komen Foundation “Health & Wellness Guide.”
Research Foundation of the State University of New York on behalf of the University at Buffalo- $25,000.00
Utica and Jefferson Mammography Outreach Among African-American Women
The purpose of the program is to increase African-American women’s awareness of breast self-exam (BSE), clinical breast exam (CBE) and screening mammography as early-detection methods for breast cancer and to improve the utilization rates of existing breast cancer screening in the Utica and Jefferson area on the east side of Buffalo.
2005-2006 Komen Funded Community Grants
Mount St. Mary’s Hospital Foundation
Niagara County breast cancer support group development project
Funds provided to assist in the development of breast cancer related support programs in Niagara County.
Family Medicine Research Institute (Research Foundation of SUNYAB)
Improvement of mammography referral implementation of among African-American women
Primary-care centered chart review, reporting, and outreach efforts in order to increase screening rate among their African-American patients.
VA Western NY Healthcare System
Women veterans services without walls
Continuation of previous Komen grant focused on breast cancer education and outreach efforts with female veterans in community settings, shelters, and soup kitchens.
Gold Choice
The use of telephonic case management to improve screening mammography rates in women with mental health and substance abuse issues
Gold Choice, a Medicaid Managed Care program for persons with mental illness and/or addictions, will utilize telephone-based outreach to reduce barriers to optimal breast health.
ECMC Lifeline Foundation for ECMC Cancer Center
ECMC Breast Lifeline program
Telephone outreach & health system navigation by African-American breast cancer survivor to low-income African-American women at high risk for breast cancer.
Hispanics United
Sisters United in Health
Funds will help promote breast cancer education and access to screening services to the Latina community of Western New York.
2004-2005 Komen Funded Community Grants
American Muslim Council—WNY Chapter
Breast care outreach program
Professional outreach through a series of lectures targeted towards WNY Muslim women in order to encourage screening mammography for breast cancer.
Heritage Centers,
Breast healthcare education and outreach for women with disabilities
Outreach provided by specialist in sex education targeted towards WNY women with disabilities living in the community.
LEWAC Associates of WNY
Project Impact: Breast cancer education, 2004
Monthly educational meetings in an African-American church setting to improve awareness of breast health issues.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Breast cancer support database development project
Development of a database incorporating all breast cancer support resources in the 8 counties of WNY.
Research Foundation of SUNYAB
Symptoms & symptom clusters identified by contemporary women with breast cancer
Study conducted by UB Nursing Dept. to evaluate subjective experiences of breast cancer patients following their treatment regimens.
VA Western NY Healthcare System
Women veterans services without walls
Breast cancer education and outreach sessions with female veterans in community settings, shelters, and soup kitchens.
Cancer Wellness Center
Spirituality & Healing
Regular educational, participatory sessions involving spiritual aspects of recovering from breast cancer, led by area college professors.
Roswell Park Alliance Foundation
Promoting community-wide breast health
The goal of this project is to encourage community-based approaches to addressing the topic of breast health issues in WNY by outreach and education activities.
Cazenovia Recovery Systems
Enhancing breast health awareness among at-risk women in treatment for chemical dependency
Breast cancer education and screening for women dealing with chemical dependencies and living in a WNY halfway-house.
Gay & Lesbian Coalition of WNY
Pride Center breast cancer program
Breast cancer education and promotion of screening for lesbian and trans-gendered women in a group setting.
Gilda’s Club WNY, Inc.
Gilda’s Club program start-up
Funds provided to develop breast-cancer specific programming in WNY Gilda’s Club.
Gold Choice
Identifying barriers & facilitation factors to improve screening mammography rates in women with mental health and substance abuse issues
Gold Choice, a Medicaid Managed Care program for mentally ill and substance abuse populations, will analyze salient factors that serve as barriers to breast health.
Luminina Corporation
The Hope Chest exercise program
Exercise and rowing program for women breast cancer survivors, with a focus on lymphedema prevention.
Sisters Network
Gift for life block walk
Door-to-door breast cancer educational outreach in African-American community, led by African-American breast cancer survivors in order to promote screening.
WomenStories
Final packaging of Recurrence and Metastasis video
Funds provided to assist in the completion of educational and supportive breast cancer awareness video that features breast cancer patients’ experiences.
2003-2004 Komen Funded Community Grants
Cancer Wellness Center
Teaching medical students ‘How to deliver bad news’
Using cancer survivors, medical students will be supervised and videotaped giving “bad news.” They will be trained to relate to patients in a way that promotes a positive approach to healing, and will ultimately improve the quality of lives threatened by illness.
ECMC Lifeline Foundation
ECMC breast lifeline program
The Breast Lifeline Program seeks to address the barriers to breast health faced by socio-economically disadvantaged women in the Buffalo area.
Independent Health Association
Medicaid mammography outreach initiative
Using women subscribers to MediSource (a Medicaid managed care product) who did not have a mammogram in the last 12 months, an outreach program will be carried out to increase the number of screening mammograms in this population.
LEWAC Associates of WNY
Project Impact: Breast cancer education
Monthly educational meetings in an African-American church setting to improve awareness of breast health issues.
Women to Women, Medical Media Associates
Recurrence/Metastasis Video
Production of a video (one in a series relating to breast cancer), using a diverse group of survivors, that deals with issues relating to recurrence and/or metastasis of breast cancer.
Roswell Park Alliance Foundation
Community-wide breast health initiative
1) Facilitating linkages among diverse community groups focused on breast health issues; 2) Supporting skills development leading to grant applications to WNY Komen; and 3) Promoting the visibility of the WNY Komen Foundation across WNY.
2002-2003 Komen Funded Community Grants
Roswell Park Alliance Foundation
Sisters Network
Breast cancer support groups for African-American breast cancer patients in Erie County.
Independent Health Foundation
Analysis of barriers to breast cancer screening in a Medicaid population in WNY
Conduct focus groups with Medicaid clients to identify barriers to breast cancer screening and develop recommendations for overcoming these barriers as well as monitor impact on screening rates.
ECMC Lifeline Foundation
Breast lifeline program
Increase outreach efforts to promote breast cancer screening for low-income women in Buffalo.
Mount St. Mary’s Hospital
Training and implementation of lymphedema massage therapy
Provide lymphedema therapy to breast cancer patients in Niagara County.
Erie County Department of Health
Refugee and immigrant community breast health program
Train 20 community outreach workers to screen 250 immigrant and refugee women.
