Current Grant Recipients

1. CHS Healthcare - Collier Mammography Assistance Program $83,525
This grant will assist minority women in Collier County by removal of financial and transportation barriers to mammography, and improve outreach to identify and encourage women who do not get mammograms. The program will continue to fund free transportation for Immokalee women to Naples for screening.

2. Family Health Centers of Southwest Florida, Inc. - Jessie Trice Breast Cancer Prevention Project $157,453
This project provides education and screening services aimed at women from low-income African-American & Hispanic communities. The program funds clinical breast exams, mammograms, and advanced diagnostic services.

3. Lee Cancer Care/Lee Memorial Health Systems - Breast C.A.R.E. (Cancer Assistance Resource Expansion) Program $209,350
The Breast C.A.R.E. Program will assist those individuals with breast cancer who are uninsured/underinsured with diagnosis, staging and/or treatment in Lee, Collier and Hendry counties.

4. LIGHT of Southwest Florida, Inc. - Uninterrupted Breast Cancer Treatment $20,000
LIGHT of Southwest Florida will offer financial assistance to under-insured individuals to allow them to continue their breast cancer treatment. A patient assistance committee will review the screened applications and determine need. Bills submitted may cover co-pays, COBRA payments, deductibles and medication. Payments are made directly to providers. LIGHT covers Lee and Collier County.

5. Lucy's Angels - Project Graduate $11,000
Lucy's Angels for Breast Cancer Care will provide funds for programs that will assist women and men who reside in Hendry and Glades counties, who do not have the financial means to have access to mammograms and other diagnostic procedures for breast cancer.

6. Lymphedema Resources Inc. - Lymphedema Education and Treatment Project $29,200
This grant will be used to fund a program of education and treatment for breast cancer survivors who have developed lymphedema and live in Lee, Collier, Hendry, Glades, and Charlotte counties. This condition, which causes swelling, can occur following radiation or excision of the lymph node.

7. Manatee County Health Department $65,950
Mammograms for the Cure is a breast cancer screening program providing services to needy, un- and under-insured women,  ages 40-49 in Charlotte, Glades & Hendry Counties, and ages 50-64 in those counties, as well as Collier & Lee.

8. Naples Community Hospital - Breast Health Patient Navigation Program $92,350
This grant will establish a program for a breast health navigator in Collier County. The breast health navigator will guide patients through the complex health care system, advocate for them by reducing barriers to care and ensure they receive support and education. Additional components include the purchase of Jacki recovery jackets that are used for women following surgery to make them more comfortable.  The grant also covers 5% of infusion costs for patients in need.

9. Neighborhood Health Clinic - Breast Health Program $87,390
The program is for the working poor. They will receive as needed: an examination by a physician, self breast exam instructions, mammograms, diagnostic procedures, surgery, or treatment. 

10. Partners for Breast Cancer Care - Comfort and Hope $207,100
Comfort and Hope is designed to help women and men in Lee County. The program pays for breast cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment for people that cannot pay themselves.