To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer Foundation awarded $240,000 in grants to 14 Bay Area nonprofit organizations on April 9 in Sausalito, supporting women and men with breast health issues. These organizations provide emergency, direct and diagnostic services, financial assistance, patient navigation, holistic complementary therapies and emotional support programs to underserved breast cancer patients. Grant recipients are located throughout the nine-county Bay Area.
These awards bring the total amount granted since the organization’s inception in 1996 to over $7 million. Grant recipients were chosen from a pool of applicants by the foundation’s Grants Review Committee, which consists of community health and medical leaders, foundation supporters, and past and present foundation board directors, many who have personally experienced breast cancer.
To Celebrate Life grant recipients for 2025 are :
Bay Area Cancer Connections – San Mateo
Breast and ovarian cancer emergency fund
Breastoration ink – San Rafael
3D nipple and areola tattooing
Bright Spot Network – Alameda
Grants for short term family relief
Cancer CArepoint – San Jose
Emergency and support services for breast cancer patients
Charlotte Maxwell Clinic – oakland
Integrative care for low-income women with breast cancer
Marin Center for Independent Living
Mary Mathews Breast Cancer Benefits and Advocacy Program
MarinHealth Foundation – Greenbrae
Screening, diagnostic and genetic testing fund for uninsured and underinsured individuals
Pilipino Senior resource Center – San Francisco
Underserved Filipinas with breast cancer receive navigational assistance, transportation, group support therapy and emergency support services
Pink ribbon Good inc. – Los Altos
Rides to treatment for breast cancer patients in the Bay Area
San Francisco Women’s Cancer Network – San Francisco
Navigation for African American women living in the Bayview/Hunter’s Point communities of San Francisco to access breast cancer screening services, follow- up diagnostic, treatment and breast cancer support services
Shanti Project – San Francisco
Navigation is provided to underserved, low-income clients with breast cancer to ensure they access, understand, and complete treatment
Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation – Santa Rosa
Provides integrated services and direct support to breast cancer patients from their initial diagnosis to a treatment plan, recovery and survivorship
Tim and Jeannie Hamann Foundation – Benicia
Direct and emergency services assist Solano County breast cancer patients who do not have the resources to meet basic needs
Women’s Cancer resource Center – Berkeley
Emergency financial assistance for breast cancer patients
For more information, visit tocelebratelife.org/grantees.
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