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TO CELEBRATE LIFE AWARDS ANNUAL GRANTS

Front row (from left): Cecilia Thomas, San Francisco Women’s Cancer Network; Dr. Crystal Terry, Charlotte Maxwell Clinic; Leanne Gallup, Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation; Kelly Tyler, Marin Center for Independent Living; Fern Orenstein, Breastoration Ink; Dolores Moorehead, Women’s Cancer Resource Center; Kim Burnham, Pink Ribbon Good; Pam Klaus, Cancer CAREpoint; Juvy Barbonio, Pilipino Senior Resource Center; and Lizeth Castillo, Bay Area Cancer Connections. Back row: Alison Gause, MarinHealth Foundation; Jeannie Hamann, Tim and Jeannie Hamann Foundation. Not pictured: Haley Pollak, Bright Spot Network; Kimberly Scrafano, Shanti Project.Photo courtesy of To Celebrate Life/Glen Graves Photo

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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