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GRANTS PROGRAM AND OVERVIEW
The Greater Nashville Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure—along with those who generously support us with their talent, time and resources—is working to better the lives of those facing breast cancers in our community. We join more than 100,000 breast cancer survivors and activists around the globe as part of the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting breast cancer. Through events like the Komen Greater Nashville Race for the Cure, we invested over $500,000 in local breast health and breast cancer awareness projects in a 11 county service area in 2009 alone. Up to 75 percent of all funds generated by the Komen Greater Nashville Affiliate stay in Middle Tennessee while the remaining income goes to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Award and Research Grant Programs supporting research, awards and educational and scientific programs around the world.
The purpose of the Grant Committee of the Greater Nashville Area Affiliate is to annually plan and publicize the availability of grant funds, review and recommend furnding for grant proposals to the affiliate's Board of Directors and administer the grants approved by the Board. In the past 10 years over $2.4 million has been awarded to local organizations by the Greater Nashville Affiliate to fund education, screening and treatment programs. To date, the Greater Nashville Affiliate has contributed over $500,000 to the National Research Grant Program.
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