About 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 and 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^® and the Breast Cancer 3-Days, the organization has invested more than $1.3 billion to fulfill its promise, becoming the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world.

National Capital Area Grants Program
Funds raised from the Susan G. Komen Global Race for the Cure^® are granted to local and national programs that support Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s promise to save lives and end breast cancer forever.

Seventy-five percent of the Komen Global Race’s net income stays in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to fund local screening, treatment and education programs for the medically underserved. The remaining dollars support the Komen Global Promise Fund, a program of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which is dedicated to reaching underserved people in areas where breast cancer mortality rates are the highest

Through a competitive grant process, the Race provides funding to not-for-profit organizations providing breast health services such as mobile mammography and other free or low-cost screening. In addition, the Komen Global Race for the Cure provides grants to organizations offering treatment assistance and patient support services. All local grants are based on a community needs assessment that identifies and targets existing “gaps” in breast health and breast cancer services in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. We believe the key to eradicating this disease is through education, and we want to continuously spread our message of early detection.

With more than $1.3 billion invested to date, Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the world’s single largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to curing breast cancer - second only to the U.S. Government. We fight breast cancer on all fronts - in laboratories, in doctors’ offices, throughout communities, in rural and urban areas and at the public policy level.

For more information and to learn more about the Susan G. Komen for the Cure^® Advocacy Alliance, visit komenadvocacy.org.

Susan G. Komen Global Promise Fund^®
The Susan G. Komen Global Promise Fund is dedicated to reaching underserved people in areas where breast cancer death rates are highest. We'll do so with projects that:

• Increase breast health awareness and access to detection and treatment of breast cancer
• Recruit and fund medical staff
• Provide services to breast cancer survivors and their families
• Recruit and train lay ambassadors to promote breast cancer awareness and treatment messages in underserved areas around the globe.

Our promise becomes mortally critical when you consider that more than 1.1 million people around the world are diagnosed with breast cancer annually and more than 410,000 will die this year alone. In the next 25 years, another 25 million people will be diagnosed and another 10 million will die, with most of these deaths occurring in countries with limited resources, including 30 countries in Africa and Asia.