Funding Priorities

In March 2011, the Northwest Ohio Affiliate completed its second comprehensive Community Profile to ensure grant funds are distributed to community-based programs providing the greatest impact.  This profile is used to guide the local grant application and review process consistent with the Affiliate's mission and standards.  The completed 2011 Community Profile identified the following priorities for the 24-county service area:

• Breast Health and Breast Cancer Education/Awareness: Programs that focus on providing culturally appropriate breast cancer education and awareness, patient navigation, and advocacy with an emphasis on the medically underserved.

• Access to Breast Cancer Screening: Screening of high-risk underserved populations, especially focusing on women and minority populations of all ages, with resource and access barriers.

• Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis and/or Treatment: Diagnosis and treatment of high-risk underserved populations, especially focusing on women and minority populations of all ages, with resource and access barriers.

• Breast Cancer Survivorship: Programs directed to breast cancer patients at the early or newly diagnosed stage and ongoing through treatment.

The Northwest Ohio Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® offers grants for innovative projects in the areas of breast health education, breast cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, support, and outreach projects targeting services not otherwise available to medically underserved women and men in our service area.  All grant recipients must be non-profit organizations.

A minimum of 25 percent of the net income from each domestic Affiliate Race supports the national Komen for the Cure Grant Program, which funds groundbreaking breast cancer research, meritorious awards and educational and scientific conferences around the world.

Up to 75 percent of the net income from each domestic Affiliate Race stays in the local community to fund breast health education, breast cancer screening and treatment projects.

2011 Community Profile

A Community Profile is the process of gathering information and assigning priorities that the Komen Northwest Ohio Affiliate completes every two years in order to understand the state of breast health and breast cancer in Southeast Michigan and Northwest Ohio.  A Community Profile provides information on the population to be served, access to services, location of services, barriers to services, and other breast health and breast cancer gaps. An effective Community Profile assists the Komen Northwest Ohio Affiliate in aligning its mission and non-mission initiatives through a strategic planning process to ensure a targeted, effective and non-duplicative effort in order to have the greatest impact in saving lives and ending breast cancer forever. 

The mission of the Affiliate will always be to save lives and end breast cancer forever; the Community Profile will provide an action plan for the next few years so that we can most efficiently use our resources to work towards these goals.

Click here to download the Executive Summary of the 2011 Community Profile.

Click here to download the complete Community Profile report.