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Komen Greater NYC’s Seventh Annual Awards Luncheon
05/13/2009 - By Grand Ballroom of the Hilton New York

Komen Greater NYC’s Seventh Annual Awards Luncheon

KOMEN GREATER NYC AWARDS OVER $3.9 MILLION IN FUNDING TO COMMUNITY BASED EDUCATION, SCREENING & TREATMENT PROGRAMS FOR LOCAL UNDERSERVED AND UNINSURED WOMEN

The Greater New York City Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® awarded more than $3.9 million in grants. $2.3 million is going to 37 local community-based organizations providing breast educational outreach, screening coordination, support and treatment services where it is needed most — to underserved women in New York metropolitan area. The grants were announced at Komen Greater NYC’s Seventh Annual Awards Luncheon on Wednesday, May 13th at noon in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas at 53rd Street.

The Luncheon was Komen Greater NYC’s second largest fundraiser of the year.

“Breast cancer does not go on hiatus during difficult economic times,” said Dara P. Richardson-Heron, MD, CEO of Komen Greater NYC. “With the State of New York cutting back on the budget for the Cancer Services Program, a program that provides free cancer screening to the uninsured, Komen Greater NYC is even more committed to raising the funds needed for community-based prevention, screening and treatment programs. These grants allow medically underserved women of all kinds in our community – women of color, un- and underinsured women, immigrants, gay and disabled women – to receive services that many of us take for granted.”

The balance of the $3.9 million in grants awarded this year included $217,500 to increase the capacity of local researchers to enroll underserved women in breast cancer clinical trials. Pilot and educational programs will receive $45,000 through our small grants program.

Komen Greater NYC is also donating over $1.3 million to support national peer-reviewed breast cancer research projects.

The Annual Luncheon also honored the contributions of individuals and organizations working to the fight breast cancer and help those suffering with the disease. Awardees are:

 Robin Roberts, ABC’s Good Morning America (Survivor Honoree)
 WCBS-TV — accepted by Maurice DuBois, Anchor (Corporate Honoree) and including an award to Peter Dunn, President & General Manager
 Kathie-Ann P. Joseph, MD, MPH, FACS, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center (Gay Clark Stoddard Award – Compassionate Care for Women with Breast Cancer)
 Maria Theodoulou, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Hally Yaccino Steiner Award – Outstanding Work with Triple Negative Breast Cancer)
 Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program, Grantee of the Year

The luncheon was hosted by CBS 2 anchor Maurice DuBois. The grant awards was announced by former New York City First Lady, author, and television and radio personality Donna Hanover. CBS Early Show host Harry Smith will present the corporate award to WCBS. ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts will present to Robin Roberts.

Event sponsors included:
Emerald Sponsor: Disney-ABC Television Group
Ruby Sponsors: Accenture; Ann Taylor Stores, Corp.; Bloomberg; Daniel E, Fass, MD, IGRT; JPMorgan Chase; Dee Dee Ricks; Lisa Witten
Sapphire Sponsors: Cancer Treatment Centers of America; Mrs. Angeles Suarez Kozlowski; Blythe Masters & Gareth Evans; Meadows Office Furniture Co.; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Ruth Oratz, MD; Nancy & Fred Poses — The Poses Family Foundation; Robert J. Seifer Cancer Research Foundation
Pearl Sponsors: The Bank of New York Mellon; Genomic Health, Inc. Oncotype DX; Kyle Good; Sandra L. Kozlowski; John Rescigno, MD; WCBS-TV
Media Sponsors: The Amsterdam News; CBS 2; Crain’s New York Business

A list of the grantees, their location and their services/research activities, follows.

The Greater New York City Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure was founded in 1990 and has raised close to $50 million to date. The organization is dedicated to the greater New York City metropolitan area, disbursing up to seventy-five percent of its net income to local programs offering breast health education, screening and treatment in the five boroughs of New York City, on Long Island and in Westchester and Rockland Counties. Twenty-five percent of its revenues fund national peer-reviewed research programs.

For more information, visit the Komen Greater NYC Affiliate website, www.komennyc.org

Susan G. Komen for the Cure — Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which launched the global breast cancer movement. Today, Komen for the Cure is the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. Thanks to events like the Komen Race for the Cure®, we have invested over $1 billion to fulfill our promise, becoming the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world.

For more information about Susan G. Komen for the Cure, breast health or breast cancer, visit www.komen.org or call 1-877-GO KOMEN.


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