Funding Opportunity: Funding to serve target communities

Susan G. Komen Colorado will award Community Grants to eligible local non-profit organizations to provide breast health and breast cancer projects to individuals in the Affiliate’s service area between April 1, 2016, and March 31, 2017. Komen Colorado will award grants using a competitive review process to support evidence-based projects that contribute to the Affiliate’s overall goals of:

• Increasing screening rates and access to care;
• Reducing rates of late-stage diagnosis and breast cancer mortality;
• Reducing disparities in breast cancer outcomes between populations;
• Enhancing quality of life for patients;
• Improving patients’ ability to progress along the breast cancer continuum of care in their local communities; and
• Changing individuals’ knowledge of and decision-making about breast cancer risk, screening recommendations, and screening behaviors

Full details about this funding opportunity are available on Komen Colorado’s website.