Current Grant Recipients

2012 -2013 Community Grantee Partners
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Greater Kansas City's annual grant cycle begins April 1, 2012 and ends March 31, 2013. Grant applications were received in the fall of 2011 from nonprofit organizations and were reviewed by an independent panel of breast health experts. Grants are restricted to breast health services and are used to serve medically vulnerable women in our 17 county, bi-state service area. For the 2012-2013 grant cycle, Komen Kansas City has partnered with 20 local organizations for a total of $925,524.83 granted.

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Atchison Hospital Association
Program Name: Saving Lives with Early Detection 
Contact: 913-360-5380
Awarded: $25,653.72

This program promotes the importance of breast cancer screening in Northeast Kansas through “Lunch and Learn” educational programs, one-on-one educational sessions with women undergoing mammography, and a “buddy system” that helps women encourage and support each other in making and attending mammography appointments. 

Cancer Action, Inc.
Program Name: Breast Cancer Patient Services
Contact: 913-321-8880 (Kansas City, KS office), 913-642-8885 (Overland Park office), 816-350-8881 (Independence office)
Awarded: $104,000

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 900 women facing the challenge of breast cancer.  

Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Program Name: Early Detection Works Program
Contact: 1-877-277-1368
Awarded: $61,025

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 300 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.  

Northland Health Care Access
Program Name: Northland CARE/Metro CARE Breast Care for the Uninsured
Contact: 816-880-6700
Awarded: $38,293

Northland CARE links uninsured women from the Northland to free breast screenings and care. Approximately 250 referrals for uninsured women are made annually to screening, follow-up diagnostic services, and treatment. 

Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute
Program Name: Mobile Mammography Program
Contact: 816-932-2000
Awarded: $233,575

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.

2012-2013 Mobile Schedule

Black Health Care Coalition
Awarded: $6,750
Mobile Mammography Outings: 9

Cabot Westside Health Clinic
Awarded: $6,000 
Mobile Mammography Outings: 8

Coalition of Hispanic Women Against Cancer
Awarded: $6,000 
Mobile Mammography Outings: 8

CommuCare Services, Inc.
Awarded: $750
Mobile Mammography Outings: 1

Graceway
Awarded: $2,250
Mobile Mammography Outings: 3

Kansas City Free Health Clinic
Awarded: $3,000
Mobile Mammography Outings: 4

KU Endowment
Awarded: $1,500
Mobile Mammography Outings: 2

Saint Luke's Northland Hospital/Spelman Medical Foundation
Awarded: $3,750
Mobile Mammography Outings: 5 

Sheffield Family Life Center
Awarded: $1,500
Mobile Mammography Outings: 2

YMCA of Greater Kansas City
Awarded: $1,500
Mobile Mammography Outings: 2


Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center
Program Name:  Breast Cancer Prevention for Women
Contact: 816-474-4920
Awarded: $70,457.60

Samuel U. Rodgers provides breast health services for underserved populations of the Greater Kansas City metro who lack insurance and access to health services. These services are culturally and linguistically competent, with activities in English, Spanish, Vietnamese and Somali. The program anticipates screening 200 women through clinical breast examinations and mammography screening and providing 1,500 women with breast cancer education and case management.

Social Welfare Board
Program Name:  Breast Cancer Prevention: Friend to Friend Style
Contact: 816-233-5188
Awarded: $136,544.59

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 for 500 uninsured women and screening and/or diagnostic mammograms for 260 women.

Swope Health Services
Program Name:  Mammograms
Contact: 816-922-3100
Awarded: $91,351.54

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, 25 bilateral diagnostic mammograms, 35 clinical breast exams, and 15 ultrasounds.

Truman Medical Centers
Program Name:  Patient Navigator
Contact: 816-404-4052
Awarded: $60,030

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”.  Approximately 64 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
Contact: 913-205-0030
Awarded: $71,594.38

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. 

Current & past programs who have received grants

Atchison Hospital Association (2012)
Bates County Memorial Hospital (2006 - 2009) 
Black Health Care Coalition (1998-2001, 2003, 2005-2012)
Cabot Westside Health Center (2002-2012)
Cancer Action (1997, 1999-2012)
Coalition of Hispanic Women Against Cancer (2004-2012)
CommuCare Services, Inc. (2012)
Graceway (2010-2012)
Health Care Access Clinic (2001, 2002, 2007, 2008)
Kansas City Free Health Clinic (1997-2001, 2003 - 2009, 2011-2012)
Kansas Department of Health and Environment (2009-2012)
KU Endowment (2012)
Lesbian Cancer Project (2003 - 2011)
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)
Northland Health Care Access (2011-2012)
Pass it On! (2008)
Providence Medical Center (2006 - 2008)
Saint Luke's Northland Hospital (2006 - 2012)
Saint Luke's Cancer Institute (1999-2001, 2003 - 2012)
Saint Vincent Clinic (2002)
Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center (1997-2003, 2005-2012)
Shawnee Mission Medical Center (2005, 2007)
Sheffield Family Life Center (2011-2012)
Social Welfare Board (2004, 2006 - 2012)
Swope Health Services (2001-2012)
The University of Kansas Hospital (1995-2001, 2005)
Truman Medical Centers (1995-2012)
Unified Government of Wyandotte County (2003, 2006-2012)
Women's Employment Network (2003, 2004)
Young Survival Coaltion (2003)
YMCA of Greater Kansas City (2012)
YWCA of Greater Kansas City (2010-2011)
YWCA St. Joseph (1998, 1999, 2001-2011)