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2005 Grant Awards
Abbott Northwestern Hospital
– Piper Breast Center
The title of the program is Full Field Digital Mammography
Grant Award: $100,000.00
The equipment will allow immediate digital images, without the limitations and delays involved in traditional x-ray film, to be read or manipulated reducing the need for additional imaging and return appointments.
Association for the Advancement of Hmong Women in Minnesota
The title of the project is Women to Women Program
Grant Award: $30,000.00
This organization’s Breast Health and Breast Cancer Prevention Program uses a woman-to-woman approach to education. This removes many cultural barriers and empowers Hmong women to learn about their body and their health. Trained bilingual volunteers meet with small groups of women in a home or community setting. The trained volunteers provide information about breast health and breast cancer prevention. Every women who attends receives a handout that includes an AAHWM Health Educator’s phone number and the phone number of other resources where they can receive help getting information and screenings.
Minnesota International Health Volunteers
The title of the program is Somali Women’s Breast Cancer Project
Grant Award: $100,000.00
Many Somali women may not be aware of breast cancer, the risk factors associated with the disease and the options that are open to them in terms of prevention and screening. Funding will be used to reach out to Somali women by providing outreach and education in the community through trained Somali Community Health Workers who will increase knowledge about the disease as well as to ensure that women 40 and above are screened on an annual basis.
Open Arms of Minnesota
The title of the program is Meal Delivery for Women with Breast Cancer and Affected Family Members: A Pilot Program
Grant Award: $48,000.00
Grant funds will be used to launch a pilot program to provide nutritionally appropriate meals to people undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Specific menus will be created taking into consideration the nutritional requirements of clients receiving radiation or chemotherapies. Participants in the pilot program will receive the equivalent of three meals a day, though portions may be designed to provide smaller amounts of food to be eaten more often throughout the day. Meals will be delivered to clients’ homes, free of charge, by Open Arms’ volunteers. In addition to providing nutritious meals for clients with breast cancer, Open Arms will also provide meals for their affected partners, caregivers and children.
Tracy Area Medical Services
The title of the project is Educational Assistance for Women of Hmong Ethnicity in areas of Breast Health and Breast Cancer Awareness
Grant Award: $10,000.00
This program for women of the Hmong community will stress the need for healthcare centered on the prevention of, and/or treatment of breast cancer. With cancer the leading cause of death among women of Asian ethnicity, and records showing almost no participation in breast health initiatives locally, the need for educational programs in this area was seen. With the assistance of Hmong community leaders and facilitated by the TAMS Social Services Department and Medical Providers, programs covering the need for over-all breast health centered on regular checkups and mammograms will be offered.
Twin Cities Public Television
The title of the project is Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness
Grant Award: $88,816.00
The Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness teams TPT with UCare Minnesota. At the heart of this partnership project is its ability to provide access to culturally sensitive materials for underserved populations, in particular, African-American, Native American, Hispanic/Latino, and Hmong populations throughout Minnesota. Through utilization of TPT’s production and broadcast services and UCare’s significant network of healthcare providers, the Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness will reach those populations most in need of breast cancer education. The goal of the Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness project is to provide broad access to culturally appropriate breast health information that addresses cultural barriers and fears associated with seeking preventative medical care.
Vietnamese Social Services of Minnesota
The title of the project is Vietnamese, Karen, and Chinese-Vietnamese Breast Cancer Outreach
Grant Award: $24,704.00
Vietnamese Social Services has provided breast cancer education and screening access services for Vietnamese women in the Twin Cities for the past three years. Funding will be used for Vietnamese Social Services of Minnesota to expand its current efforts to include outreach to Vietnamese women in the St. Cloud, MN area, as well as Chinese-Vietnamese women and Karen women in the Twin Cities (Karen are an ethnic minority from Burma). This project will primarily serve uninsured and low-income women with low levels of education, low skills in English, and cultural barriers to access to the health care system.
United Hospital
The title of the program is Breast cancer detection equipment called Digital Mammography
Grant Award: $100,000.00
The equipment will allow immediate digital images, without the limitations and delays involved in traditional x-ray film, to be read or manipulated reducing the need for additional imaging and return appointments.
Mayo Clinic
The title of the project is Molecular Breast Imaging: Evaluation of a new Technique using Scintimammography as a Potential Screening Tool for Women at increased Risk of Breast Cancer
Grant Award: $249,900.00
Medical research.
Mayo Clinic
The title of the project is Understanding the Tumor Suppression Function of BCRA1.
Grant Award: $250,000.00
Medical research.
Minnesota Department of Health, SAGE Screening Program
The title of the project is Breast Cancer Screening Project
Grant Award: $225,488.00
The program provides mammograms to medically underserved women in the state of Minnesota.
Minnesota Department of Health, SAGE Screening Program
The project provides secondary breast cancer screening and basic treatment for underserved Minnesotans
Grant Award $316,795.11
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation National Headquarters
Annual payment for Medical Research
Total payment $446,921.98
TOTAL AWARDED $1,990,625.09
