How to Apply for Funding

The mission of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is to eradicate breast cancer as a lifethreatening disease by advancing research, education, screening, and treatment. Affiliates of the Komen Foundation represent one of the nation’s largest private funding sources for breast health and breast cancer screening, education, and treatment support programs.

The West Virginia Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc., offers grants for innovative projects in the areas of breast health and breast cancer education, outreach, screening, and treatment support targeting services not otherwise available to the medically underserved populations of West Virginia. Grants are available for up to one (1) year. The grant period is April 1 - March 31.

The WV Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure is pleased to announce that it will again offer one-year grants of up to $35,000 to support breast cancer-related activities in our state.Click here for the official Request For Application (RFA) that includes all of the information that you’ll need to submit a proposal.

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Applications are due no later than December 1, 2011 and must be submitted to grants@komenwv.org<mailto:grants@komenwv.org>.

Supplemental information on grant writing fundamentals is available at this link: https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=5bd4476ff4f4b67a&resid=5BD4476FF4F4B67A!123&authkey=NvYr2kzCgxE%24

If you have any questions or comments about the RFA, contact Komen Board of Directors Grants Chair Shanen Wright at grants@komenwv.org<mailto:grants@komenwv.org>

Applications must be submitted by the director of the project.  Number all pages and keep grant requests to the page limits, as stated above.  Excess pages/unrequested information will be removed prior to review.

Submit one original and four (4) copies of each application (total of 5 hard copies) plus one (1) electronic copy. NOTE REGARDING ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS: To account for signatures on the electronic copy, you may indicate "original signatures are on hard copy" on the electronic copy where signatures are required. To account for documents inserted into the hard copy of application that are not available electronically (i.e. IRS letter of determination), insert a blank page in the electronic submission where the document should appear and label it accordingly with a statement that the original is included in the hard copies of the application.

Thanks,

Caroline Schlatt
WV Affiliate Susan G. Komen for the Cure Grant Committee