Greater Fort Worth Distributes $900,000

11 Local Organizations Receive Grants

Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists committed to ending breast cancer forever, proudly announces that 12 programs from 11 local organizations received $900,000 in grants from the local Affiliate, Komen Greater Fort Worth. The grants will assist uninsured and underinsured women and men in the Greater Fort Worth Affiliate service area, which includes Tarrant, Hood, Johnson and Parker Counties, funding vital breast cancer health education, breast cancer screening and treatment programs.

The funds were raised through the Komen Greater Fort Worth Race for the Cure®, local third party events and donations to our Affiliate.  Seventy-five percent of every dollar raised by the Greater Fort Worth Affiliate stays in our 4-county Affiliate service area. The remaining twenty-five percent of each donated dollar is contributed to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure® National Award & Research Grant Program to fund ground-breaking breast cancer research. The 12 new grants will provide education, outreach, mammograms, diagnostics and treatment.

The 2012 Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Greater Fort Worth grantees:
Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth
Bridge Breast Network
Cancer Assistance Fund of North Texas
Cancer Care Services
Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth
Huguley Memorial Medical Center
Moncrief Cancer Institute
Muslim Community Center for Human Services
Partners Together for Health, the Foundation for JPS Health Network
Tarrant County Public Health
Texas Health Harris Methodist Foundation

For more information about the grant programs, please follow the link:
http://www.komengreaterfortworth.org/grants/current-grant-recipients/