Current Grant Recipients

2009-2010 Komen Mid-Michigan Community Grant Recipients

These projects have been selected by our independent Grant Review Panel as those that will have the greatest impact in serving uninsured or underinsured women in our service area. Please note that Susan G. Komen for the Cure is not a direct service provider.

• The Barry-Eaton District Health Department was awarded $38,348.50 for the Breast Cancer Screening, Diagnostics, and Outreach Program, which provides mammograms and diagnostic services for low income, uninsured, and underinsured women in Eaton County.

• The Mid-Michigan District Health Department was awarded $22,578 to fund the Clinton County Komen Breast Health Program, which provides mammograms and diagnostic services for low income, uninsured, and underinsured women in Clinton County.

• The Shiawassee County Health Department was awarded $10,161.75 for its Breast Cancer Control and Outreach Program, which provides mammograms and diagnostic services for low income, uninsured, and underinsured women in Shiawassee County.

• The MSU Comprehensive Breast Health Clinic was awarded $39,996 for its program "Breast Care for Women of Mid-Michigan", which provides diagnostic services for low income, uninsured, and underinsured women in Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham counties.

• Sparrow Family Medicine Residency was awarded $13,248 for its initiative to "Increase Mammography Screening in Underinsured, Uninsured, and Minorities", which provides mammograms and follow-up care in the Greater Lansing area.

• The Healthy Asian Americans Project was awarded $71,165 for "Promoting Breast Health and Cancer Screening for Asian American Women", which uses lay health advisors to provide language and culturally appropriate breast health information to Asian American women in Washtenaw County, and to provide clinical breast exams, mammograms, and follow-up care.

• The MSU Breslin Cancer Center was awarded $39,591 for its "Changing Tomorrows Breast Cancer Survivors Program", a clinic for breast cancer survivors dealing with the long term and late effects from the treatment of breast cancer.

• The YMCA of Metropolitan Lansing was awarded $35,911 for its "Turning Point Program," a health and fitness program for breast cancer survivors in the Greater Lansing area.

• Allen Neighborhood Center was awarded $18,326 for "Increasing Access and Screening Rates for Uninsured Women in Ingham County", which provides education to encourage early detection and increase mammography rates among residents of Lansing’s eastside.

• Sparrow Cancer Center was awarded $18,149 for its program, "Lebed Focus on Healing," an exercise program for breast cancer survivors in the Greater Lansing area.