Tracy Thompson Rode, Board President, Lisa Ellis, Siloam Family Health Center Director of Development, Kathy Parolini , Executive Director of Susan G. Komen for the Cure-Greater Nashville affiliate
SUSAN G. KOMEN FOR THE CURE
GIVES MORE THAN $500,000 TO LOCAL NON-PROFITS
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Tracy Thompson Rode, Board President, Lisa Ellis, Siloam Family Health Center Director of Development, Kathy Parolini , Executive Director of Susan G. Komen for the Cure-Greater Nashville affiliate |
Nashville, Tenn. ---Representatives from 11 Middle Tennessee non-profits gathered at a special presentation to receive more than $500,000 in grant money from Susan G. Komen for the Cure Greater Nashville affiliate. All the grantees are organizations dedicated to raising awareness, providing support and treating breast cancer. The 2009 grantees include: Gilda’s Club of Nashville, Friends In General; Middle Tennessee Medical Center; The Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation; Primary Care & Hope Clinic; Siloam Family Health Center; Sumner Regional Health Systems, Inc., Tennessee Department of Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Center for Health Services, which received grants for two outreach programs that focus on breast health.
“All these organizations have created some of the most sophisticated programs available to our communities in terms of raising awareness of breast cancer and providing testing and treatment,” said Kathy Parolini, executive director of Susan G. Komen for the Cure-Greater Nashville affiliate. “Komen for the Cure could not be more pleased to have the opportunity to help our fellow non-profits that provide services that range from offering free mammograms through the Friends In General Mammograms in May program to providing rural transportation assistance through the Minnie Pearl Cancer Center.”
The largest percentage of money raised for Komen for the Cure is the organizations annual Race for the Cure event that is scheduled for October 10, 2009 in Maryland Farms. “Our annual events and generous donors make it possible for us to give so much money to local organizations that need additional funding,” said Parolini.
About Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and the Komen Greater Nashville Affiliate Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure and launched the global breast cancer movement. The Greater Nashville Affiliate of Komen for the Cure is working to better the lives of those facing breast cancer in the local community. They join more than a million breast cancer survivors and activists around the globe as part of the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting breast cancer. Through events like the Komen Race for the Cure®, the Greater Nashville Affiliate has invested over $2.4 Million in community breast health programs in 11 counties in Middle Tennessee. Up to 75 percent of net proceeds generated by the Affiliate stays in the Middle Tennessee area. The remaining income goes to the national Susan G. Komen for the Cure Grants Program to fund research. For more information, call 615 383-0017 or visit www.komen-nashville.org.