The Actors' Fund - Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative — Team 23
Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative Hundreds of women each year rely on the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative for resources and support in the face of traumatic illness, injury, or violence. PNWHI provides access to counselors; support services; health care; diagnostic, preventive and mental heath services; substance abuse treatment; and emergency assistance to women who work in any facet of entertainment and the performing arts, many of them compromised by a lack of health insurance. This initiative is a program of The Actors Fund, the national human services organization that supports all who work in the entertainment and performing arts community. Please call 212.221.7300 (www.actorsfund.org) for more information.
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Cancer Control Center of Harlem — Team 87
Funds will provide uninsured and underinsured women with culturally sensitive outreach and educational programs on the early detection of breast cancer. Through free cancer screening clinics, women gain access to free breast exams and screening mammography. (212) 939-8035
CancerCare — Team 44
CancerCare's Touching Hearts Program helps underserved women facing the many challenges of a cancer diagnosis by providing free professional services like emotional counseling, education and information, financial assistance for treatment-related costs, and practical help. CancerCare helps thousands of women, men and children across the country, with any kind of cancer, at any stage of the disease. (800) 813-HOPE (4673) (www.cancercare.org)
Columbia University Breast Cancer Screening Partnership of NY - Presbyterian Hospital — Team 53
This program provides free breast, cervical and colorectal screening to medically underserved women in Manhattan. Funds from the Run/Walk will offset the cost of treatment for these women diagnosed with cancer. (212) 851-4516 (www.cc.columbia.edu)
Gilda's Club New York City — Team 80
Living with cancer? Come as you are.™
Gilda's Club New York City, named for comedian Gilda Radner, provides meeting places where men, women and children living with cancer – and their families and friends – can join with others to build social and emotional support as a supplement to medical care. FREE of charge and nonprofit, Gilda's Club NYC provides essential support in warm homelike settings at its Manhattan and Brooklyn Clubhouses. Funding will be used to help reach an expanding and more diverse membership. (212) 647-9700 (www.gildasclubnyc.org)
Gouverneur Diagnostic and Treatment Center; Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening and Early Detection Program — Team 82
Gouverneur Healthcare Services, on Manhattan's ethnically diverse Lower East Side, provides cancer screening and high quality comprehensive women's health services. Event proceeds will be used to ensure that uninsured women receive timely cancer screenings, diagnostic services and cancer treatment regardless of ability to pay. (212) 238-7997.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center — Team 502
The Gynecology Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering remains devoted to studying the molecular genetics and biology of ovarian cancer. Our goal is to develop new screening approaches for ovarian cancer in order to catch it in the earliest stages. Though ovarian cancer is known for having a relatively high mortality rate, this is due entirely to the fact that the disease is difficult to diagnose in its early stages. We are studying the genetic composition of women with ovarian cancer in order to identify unique factors that make these specific women susceptible to ovarian cancer. We are also working to identify targets for molecular-based drug therapies and improve the response to current regimens. The long term aims of these projects are expected to reduce the burden of ovarian cancer through screening, prevention and improved treatment. (212)-639-2000 (www.mskcc.org)
Montefiore-Einstein Cancer Center — Team 2026
The Psychosocial Oncology Program of the Montefiore-Einstein Cancer Center of Bronx, New York offers supportive and educational programs to help women with cancer enjoy the best possible quality of life that they can. Services include individual counseling, yoga, stress management and spiritual groups, and smoking cessation counseling, and are available free of charge or on a sliding scale, with no one turned away due to inability to pay. In order to make sure that every woman affected by cancer receives the care they need, we provide free “Quality of Life” screening and referral. (718) 430-2200 (www.aecom.yu.edu/cancer/outreach)
Nassau University Medical Center — Team 12
The Patient Navigator Program provides bilingual patient navigators to patients both during their initial visit to our screening services and during follow-up to their breast exams. Under the direction of the Nurse Case Manager, the patient navigator aids the women through the Nassau University Medical Center health care system and support services available in Nassau County. (516) 572-3300 (www.numc.edu)
William F. Ryan Health Community Health Network — Team 184
The Ryan Center is a not-for-profit CommunityHealth Center that provides high quality, affordable,primary, preventative and specialty health careand supportive services to minority and medicallyunderserved populations. Funds will be used tosupport Women’s Health Education/Patient Navigatorprograms at Ryan’s main site and its satellite,Ryan-NENA, and affiliate Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton.(212)749-1820 (www.ryancenter.org)
National Breast Cancer Coalition
Funding enables NBCCF to provide free breast cancer information and supports unique educational programs. Activists receive science training to serve as consumer advocates on panels that help determine where breast cancer research funds are awarded. Programs also improve advocates' leadership skills and prepare consumers to participate in all aspects of clinical trials from design through oversight. (202) 296-7477 (www.stopbreastcancer.org)
National Women’s Cancer Research Alliance (NWCRA)
NWCRA was founded in 1997 by Lilly Tartikoff and the Entertainment Industry Foundation, along with charter sponsor EIF REVLON, to fund critical research in women’s cancers through a working alliance with leading medical institutions throughout the United States. NWCRA supports “cutting-edge” research directed at the development of new and more effective approaches to the early diagnosis and treatment of all women’s cancers. (818) 760-7722 (www.nwcra.org)
New York University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology — Team 3029
Funds will support research in the Department of Pharmacology at the NYU School of Medicine on the role of receptor tyrosine kinases, receptor tyrosine phosphatases, and hormone receptors, such as the estrogen receptor and retinoid receptors on the development and treatment of breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers. Members of the Department use the latest molecular biology and crystallization techniques to elucidate the three dimensional structures of receptors and their related factors to develop drugs to selectively block their activities. We have identified a novel pathway which when targeted specifically leads to the death of breast cancer cells. The goal is to develop new drugs with minimal side effects of the treatment of breast cancer and other malignancies. (212) 263-6279, (http://www.med.nyu.edu/pharmacology/research/)
Ovarian Cancer National Alliance — Team 136
The Ovarian Cancer National Alliance, a survivor-led umbrella organization, works to increase public and professional understanding of ovarian cancer and to advocate for more effective diagnostics, treatments and a cure. Funds from the EIF REVLON Run/Walk will support two key interrelated Alliance initiatives: increasing the capacity of ovarian cancer organizations across the country and supporting the expansion of the Survivors Teaching Students: Saving Women’s Livessm program that increases medical students’ understanding of ovarian cancer to facilitate early diagnosis. (202) 331-1332. (www.ovariancancer.org)
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of New York — Team 149
The Breast & Gynecologic Health Screening, Education and Treatment Program for Homeless Women provides health education, screening and direct hands-on care to women at shelters, drop-in centers and SROs throughout the New York Metro area and at Saint Vincent’s Comprehensive Cancer Center. These vulnerable women face enormous challenges just to survive and often ignore their own health care needs. The Program provides them with a full range of medical services including mammograms, PAP smears and diagnostic testing, as well as individual and group educational sessions. The impact of EIF EIF REVLON Run/Walk funding is reflected in our Program’s successes: prolonging and saving women’s lives and reducing their suffering. (212-604-2705) (www.svcmc.org)
YWCA of Brooklyn Sister Strength Program — Team 158
The YWCA of Brooklyn’s women’s health initiative is dedicated to reducing racial and economic disparities in health care. The YWCA’s Sister Strength program provides medically underserved and uninsured women with breast health education, clinical breast exams, and mammograms. As a member of the Brooklyn Breast Health Partnership, the YWCA coordinates free mammograms with most of the major medical centers in the borough. Women undergoing treatment and in recovery are linked with a peer navigator, and participate in support groups and specialized exercise classes. (718) 875-1190 ext. 590 (www.ywcabklyn.org)
