Give Back This Giving Season

“Cancer is a disease that can affect anyone, but it does not affect everyone equally. Black communities and other populations disparately impacted by cancer experience greater obstacles to cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and survival, including systemic racial disparities that go beyond the obvious connection to cancer.”

-American Cancer Society

As an organization, our day-to-day is spent actively following avenues to get the word out about ways to prevent and detect breast cancer.

As much as our programming aids in early detection and education around breast cancer, the fact remains that BIPOC communities continue to receive late diagnoses, and, especially for Black women, to die at a rate alarmingly higher than White women due to institutional racism.

This disparity, coupled with our desire to support BIPOC women who are breast cancer survivors, or who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, led us to the creation of the Keep A Breast Give Back Grant program.

The grants are made available for use toward medical treatment, alternative care, financial assistance, business support and essential self care.

These pillars provide grantees with an opportunity to show themselves love in an especially critical and emotional time.

“When you are experiencing the outcome of breast cancer you don’t know what to expect financially. There is the possibility of financial challenges. Keep A Breast Foundation and the Give Back Grant assisted me with making a mortgage payment. I am appreciative that I walked into the Keep A Breast exhibit 2020, while it was in Nashville. I have met some phenomenal people and now have the opportunity to volunteer with Keep A Breast Foundation,” says Dawn Freeman.

“The Give Back Grant was a godsend. Right when I started to worry, it afforded me the opportunity to re-invest in my real estate business,” says Brittany Shook, one of the 2020 recipients.

Each grant cycle includes $500 grants to all selected grantees, made possible in part with generous assistance from Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation. Anyone who is a BIPOC woman living in the US who has been diagnosed with breast cancer or is a breast cancer survivor may apply. At this time, our grant cycle is now closed, and funds for this cycle will be awarded by January 15, 2022.

Join us in addressing the disparities BIPOC women face, and donate to our Give Back Grant program this Giving Season. Your generosity will allow us to meet the needs of our growing list of applicants, and bolster our Give Back Grant program and its continued expansion.