Best Practices in Breast Cancer Advocacy Recognition for 2007

The National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund published an article on their site about the top four grassroots organizations that have won their notice and recognition for Best Practices in Breast Cancer Advocacy this year.

The link to the article is:
Best Practices in Breast Cancer Advocacy Recognition for 2007


Excerpts are:

"Washington, D.C, November 5, 2007-The National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund (NBCCF) has announced the winners of the 2007 Best Practices in Breast Cancer Advocacy Awards. Four organizations are being recognized with this competitive award, which is given to consumer-led grassroots advocacy organizations whose strategic, high-impact programs are addressing critical issues in the systems of research, access to quality care and public policy in breast cancer. Each organization will receive $50,000."

"NBCCF is proud to present the Best Practices Awards to four outstanding breast cancer advocacy groups for their innovative, effective approaches," said Fran Visco, president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund. "NBCCF firmly believes that in order to eradicate breast cancer, we must fundamentally change the systems of research and health care. Each of these organizations, as well as the seven organizations NBCCF recognized last year, has successfully brought meaningful change to the world of breast cancer and exemplifies advocacy in action. They have moved beyond raising awareness to bringing about significant change."

The 2007 Best Practices in Breast Cancer Advocacy winners are:

The Catherine Peachey Fund, Warsaw, IN-For its Banking on a Cure program, an innovative collaboration between consumers and scientists that resulted in the creation of a bank of annotated normal breast tissue samples that is being used for genomic, proteomic and epidemiologic studies. Ongoing efforts also include collection of tissue samples from women unaffected by breast cancer to explore the potential environmental causes of breast cancer.

Nueva Vida, Washington, D.C.-For its Research Participation, Development and Implementation program, a community participatory model that has increased the influence of Latinas affected by breast cancer in the design, conduct and accrual for research studies.

SHARE, New York, N.Y.-For its SHARE Leaders program, which has furthered the education of graduates of NBCC's Project LEAD and created opportunities for their meaningful involvement in research and policy.

Young Survival Coalition, New York, N.Y.-For its Young Women's Breast Cancer Registry program, a data source aimed at furthering research studies and, in particular, addressing causal factors of breast cancer in women younger than 40 years of age.

The Best Practices Awards program began in 2006. The first year's winners were:
Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation, San Antonio, Texas
Breast Cancer Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Georgia Breast Cancer Coalition Fund, Atlanta, GA
Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Bainbridge Island, WA
Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
New York State Breast Cancer Network, Spencer, N.Y.
The Rhode Island Breast Cancer Coalition, Coventry, R.I.

The Best Practices in Advocacy awards are made possible by a generous grant from the Breast Cancer Fund of the National Philanthropic Trust.

Contact: Sue Ducat (202) 973-0588
sducat@stopbreastcancer.org