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Continued From Page 3 $5,000 • Loudoun Community Health Center to cover 50 percent of the cost of biopsies and surgeries for uninsured and underinsured women: $20,000 • Tigerlily Foundation to fund the PETALS program to educate high school students in Loudoun and Fauquier counties: $9,000. The committee so far has sought out organizations in both counties that work with breast cancer patients and survivors, and members visit applicants and their institutions before deciding on funding. Committee members have a goal of directing about 20 percent of the overall funds to research activities. “That’s how we became very involved with Lombardi,” Jackson said, recalling members of the committee went to the center and spoke to the physician regarding his research before deciding to fund it. Sandi Atkins was responsible for seeking out the Tigerlily Foundation, looking for an educational source. A woman who works with young women afflicted with breast cancer, aged between 15 and 30, approximately, runs the foundation. She has a very active program in schools
and colleges: PETALS, a peer program that stresses general health needs and health education for young women. That program received $9,000. Jackson said an important lesson the committee learned was the value of even small funds. “Five thousand or ten thousand dollars can be seed money that provides leverage for other funding,” she said. Even $2,000 is valuable. “You can buy a lot of mammograms.” Similarly, the Loudoun Breast Health Network is a great help to women with breast cancer who have financial problems. Some have lost their job, can’t pay the mortgage, or need gas money, Sandi Atkins said. The network’s Pink Association Fund received $5,000 from the Cherry Blossom Breast Cancer Foundation for just that purpose. Organizations like that, small and local, provide good partnership opportunities, she said. “They’re the program side, with the time and volunteers; we’re the money side.” There is a well-defined process for applying to the foundation for assistance, both women noted, including making a convincing case for the need, verification by the committee, reporting requirements and a full explanation of how the funds are used. The committee is in the throes of amending its process to make its funding mission
clearer to potential applicants through its website. Having expanded this past year to the point where it has hired a part-time grants administrator, the group wants to make it easier for applicants and organizations to research online what kind of projects the
We helped Fauquier Hospital buy its first digital mammography machine a year or two before they could do it themselves. – Sandi Atkins
foundation will fund. Also, for women who have breast cancer, or patients with financial difficulties, it’s important for them to know how to link to other organizations, such as the Loudoun Health Breast Network (www.lbhn. org.), Sandi Atkins said. “We want to make our website a resource as well.”
Jackson agreed. “We need to do more. We’re learning,” she said. Applicants should send a letter of inquiry, and if the committee considers it of interest it will provide information on how to apply and what is expected of grant recipients. Both committee members said grantees have been grateful for the assistance. There’s such a huge need, they said, citing the Loudoun Community Health Center’s work with uninsured and underinsured women. Often, patients are told they need further tests following a mammogram. “They don’t have the money, so we pay for [50 percent] the biopsies,” Atkins said. During this last round of funding, the health center received $20,000. Similarly, the foundation has helped area hospitals acquire expensive new detection machines. “We helped Fauquier Hospital buy its first digital mammography machine a year or two before they could do it themselves,” Sandi Atkins said. The foundation also is helping Inova Loudoun Hospital with the purchase of an advanced technology stereotactic mammogram machine. Now the foundation is on a fiscal year basis, the committee plans to recommend funding grants twice a year, in June and December. For more information, visit www.cherryblossombreastcancerfoundation.org.
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