Current Grant Recipients

Which agency programs have we funded?

Bates County Memorial Hospital (2006 - 2009)
Black Health Care Coalition (1998-2001, 2003, 2005-2010)
Cabot Westside Health Center (2002-2010)
Cancer Action (1997, 1999-2010)
Coalition of Hispanic Women Against Cancer (2004-2010)
Health Care Access Clinic (2001, 2002, 2007, 2008)
Kansas City Baptist Temple (2010)
Kansas City Free Health Clinic (1997-2001, 2003 - 2009)
Kansas Department of Health and Environment (2009-2010)
Lesbian Cancer Project (2003 - 2010)
Liberty Hospital Foundation (2000)
Mattie Rhodes Center (2006)
Menorah Medical Center (2001)
Missouri Department of Health and Human Services (2010)
North Kansas City Hospital (2007)
Pass it On! (2008)
Providence Medical Center (2006 - 2008)
Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center (1997-2003, 2005-2010)
Shawnee Mission Medical Center (2005, 2007)
Social Welfare Board (2004, 2006 - 2010)
Swope Health Services (2001-2010)
Saint Luke's Northland Hospital (2006 - 2010)
Saint Vincent Clinic (2002)
Saint Luke's Cancer Institute (1999-2001, 2003 - 2010)
The University of Kansas Hospital (1995-2001, 2005)
Truman Medical Centers (1995-2010)
Unified Government of Wyandotte County (2003, 2006-2010)
Women's Employment Network (2003, 2004)
Young Survival Coaltion (2003)
YWCA of Greater Kansas City (2010)
YWCA St. Joseph (1998, 1999, 2001-2010) 

For detailed program descriptions for each of our 2010 -2011 community grantees, please click here.

Black Health Care Coalition
Program Name: Beauty Shop Talk
Amount: $18,654.00
The Black Health Care Coalition will educate 380 African American women on breast health and breast self awareness by engaging beauticians and nail technicians who will then educate their clients at beauty salons. 

Cancer Action, Inc.
Program Name: Breast Cancer Patient Services
Amount: $75,000.00
Cancer Action offers support, education, empowerment, hope and comfort to thousands of clients each year who are facing a cancer diagnosis.  The Breast Cancer Patient Services grant will provide many vital services and emotional support to over 1,100 women facing the challenge of breast cancer. 

Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Program Name: Early Detection Works Program
Amount: $34,338.50
The State of Kansas Early Detection Works Program provides breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic services to (primarily) uninsured women who meet age and income guidelines.  Funding from the Greater Kansas City Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure will provide mammograms for 250 women age 40-49, provide breast health education, and expand the partnership between EDW and the Kansas City Affiliate in the Northeast region of the state. 

Missouri Department of Health and Human Services
Program Name:  Show Me Healthy Women
Amount: $44,807.00
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services’ Show Me Healthy Women program provides free breast and cervical cancer screening services to low income, uninsured women, who are age 35 to 64, and who otherwise may not have access to these services.  SMHW estimates 300 women age 40-49 will receive screening mammograms through this program.

Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute
Program Name: Direct Patient Care
Amount: $244,672.50
Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute receives funding from Susan G. Komen for the Cure Greater Kansas City to continue mobile mammography services for the underserved.  Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute is proud and privileged to operate the only mobile mammography program offered in greater Kansas City.  Saint Luke’s will serve 1,500 women through this program.
Grantees recruiting women to the Saint Luke’s transportable mammography unit are:

Black Health Care Coalition
Amount: $6,600.00
Mobile Mammography Outings: 11

Cabot Westside Health Clinic
Amount: $4,800.00
Mobile Mammography Outings: 8

Coalition of Hispanic Women Against Cancer
Amount: $6,000.00
Mobile Mammography Outings: 10

Kansas City Baptist Temple
Amount: $1,200.00
Mobile Mammography Outings: 2

Kansas City Free Health Clinic
Amount: $2,400.00
Mobile Mammography Outings: 4

Lesbian Cancer Project at MCC Spirit of Hope Church
Amount: $1,200.00
Mobile Mammography Outings: 2

Saint Luke's Northland Hospital
Amount: $3,000.00
Mobile Mammograpy Outings: 5 

Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute
Program Name: Mobile Clerical Support
Amount: $37,294.00
Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute’s Center for Breast Care receives funding to support a full time clerical position for the Mobile Mammography Program through the generous support of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation Greater Kansas City Affiliate.  The Mobile Information Specialist enables the Mobile Mammography Program to expand satellite mammography and breast health education services to uninsured and underinsured women in the greater Kansas City area.

Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center
Program Name:  Breast Cancer Prevention for Women
Amount: $45,732.00
The Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center is a not for profit organization that serves the needs of the medically indigent, poor, and underserved within the Kansas City metropolitan area.  The Health Center’s breast cancer prevention program for women provides outreach, educational awareness, mammography screenings, and clinical breast examinations.

Social Welfare Board
Program Name:  Stepping it up for Breast Cancer Prevention
Amount: $114,354.80
Since 2002 Susan G. Komen has granted funds to the Social Welfare Board to provide education and clinical breast exams to the uninsured, indigent women of Buchanan County. This year the SWB received Komen funds to help offset the cost of providing clinical breast exams to at least 475 uninsured women and screening mammograms to at least 250 women.

Swope Health Services
Program Name:  Mammograms
Amount: $49,387.36
The purpose of this program is to provide free breast health screening options for uninsured and underinsured women in our community.  Swope Health Services will continue to address cultural and language barriers, especially for African-American and Hispanic/Latina women.  This grant will provide 375 screening mammograms, 25 unilateral diagnostic mammograms, and 30 clinical breast exams.

Truman Medical Centers
Program Name:  Patient Navigator
Amount: $50,442.00
TMC’s Patient Navigator program targets women who are diagnosed with breast cancer who live in the urban core of Kansas City.  The Patient Navigator guides cancer patients from diagnosis through surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and recovery.  The Navigator enables clinical staff to enter the patient’s world on “a bridge of empathy”.  At least 52 newly-diagnosed breast cancer patients will be navigated through this program.

Unified Government Public Health Department of Wyandotte County
Program Name:  Screening Mammography Services for Qualified Women
Amount: $61,166.60
Funding provided through this grant opportunity of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Greater Kansas City Affiliate will allow women access to preventative screening mammograms and breast health education that otherwise would not be available to them.  The goals of this program are to provide 200 women with clinical breast exams and 300 women with screening mammograms.

YWCA of Greater Kansas City 
Program Name:  Health Bridge/Healthy Relationships
Amount: $8,941.90
The YWCA of Greater Kansas City serves area schools with two sexuality programs, Health Bridge at the High School level, and Healthy Relationships at the Middle School level. Each of these programs includes in its comprehensive curricula, a session focusing on breast health.  Students served by Health Bridge and Healthy Relationships represent the populations experiencing the highest mortality from breast cancer.

YWCA of St. Joseph 
Program Name:  ENCOREplus
Amount: $34,258.00
This project in Buchanan County will focus on educating underserved women in the community.  Through outreach efforts that include the Neighborhood Outreach Project, Latina Outreach and special events such as health fairs including the Binational Health Fair, “information days” at various businesses and other outreach efforts; the YWCA will educate women using the breast self awareness approach.