Welcome to the latest issue of "The Promise", a newsletter from Susan G. Komen® Minnesota. Our purpose is to keep you informed on how your donations are used, the impact being made in the community, and how you can be involved in helping us fulfill the promise.
The Susan G. Komen Twin Cities Race for the Cure® will be once again at Southdale Center in 2016! Join us on Mother's Day, May 8, 2016, where thousands of people will gather at Southdale Center to raise funds, bring awareness, celebrate cancer survivorship and honor those who have lost their battle to the disease. The route will take participants on a 5K trek around beautiful Lake Cornelia in Edina. Same Mission. Same Race. ORIGINAL Place! Join the celebration on Mother's Day and help us as we strive to create a world without breast cancer! Register before March 17th to enjoy early bird rates and start your fundraising today.
The Susan G. Komen Promise is to save lives and end breast cancer forever by empowering people, ensuring quality care for all and energizing science
7:00-10:00 AM Health Expo & Refreshments
7:25 AM 5K Women's & Men's Wheelchair Race
7:30 AM 5K Women's & Men's Combined Run
8:15 AM Survivor Celebration & Photo
9:15 AM 5K & 1K Coed Combined Walk
Register today for the 17th Annual Susan G. Komen Brainerd Lakes Race for the Cure held on June 25, 2016. Participants may choose to run a 5K, walk a 5K or walk a 1 mile course with commemorative T-shirts given to all. The Race is held at Forestview Middle School in Baxter, Minnesota. Register today!
March 26 | Minnesota Magicians Face Off Against Breast Cancer
May 8 | Twin Cities Race for the Cure
June 25 | Brainerd Lakes Race for the Cure
July 23 | Get Your Pink On Golf for the Cure
August 13 | Breast Cancer Ride
August 19-21 | Susan G. Komen Twin Cities 3-Day
October 7-9 | Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon Weekend
We're proud to have been selected as the CRAVE Cares partner for April! Please support us by dining at CRAVE in APRIL and "rounding up" your check to support Susan G. Komen Minnesota. Guests can round up to the nearest dollar, or add any donation in they would like. ROUND UP. DONATE CHANGE. MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Run for a Cause! Add meaning to your miles! Running for Komen Minnesota not only provides you with a guaranteed entry to the 2016 Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon; it also gives you the opportunity to help us give back to the community. For details on Komen Minnesota's available marathon entries and to find out how you can maximize your fundraising opportunities through the TCM Community Partners and Charity Program, click here.
• Susan G. Komen Minnesota's service area covers all 87 counties of Minnesota.
• In 1980, the 5-year relative survival rate for women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer (cancer confined to the breast) was about 74 percent. Today, that number is 99 percent.
• Currently, there are more than 3.1 million breast cancers survivors, the largest group of cancer survivors in the U.S.
• In Minnesota, women may be eligible for free mammograms through the Minnesota Department of Health's Sage Screening Program. Call 1-888-643-2584 for more information. The partnership between Susan G. Komen Minnesota and the state of Minnesota is the LARGEST non-governmental screening resource for uninsured women in the state.
• Women treated with radiation therapy to the chest area for Hodgkin's disease at a young age have an increased risk of breast cancer. Although radiation therapy increases the risk of breast cancer later in life, its benefits for the treatment of Hodgkin's disease (or other cancers) far outweigh this risk.
• Komen Minnesota invested more than $1.5 million in their local communities last year for early detection and treatment of breast cancer, breast health education and outreach. Nationwide, Komen Affiliates invested a total of approx. $130 million in their local communities.
Komen Minnesota is a proud member of Community Health Charities. CHC represents 38 health-related nonprofits in our community and offer resources to local & national companies to assist with their community engagement, wellness and philanthropy initiatives.
Susan G. Komen® Minnesota remains committed to fulfilling our promise to save lives and end breast cancer forever through empowering people, ensuring quality care for all, and energizing science to find the cures. See our complete list of grantees here.
Bill Assures Research Funding Source for Four More Years; Vital as Federal Research Budgets Stagnate. See more.
Dr. Myles Brown and Dr. Martine J. Piccart Recognized as Winners of 2015 Brinker Awards for Scientific Distinction at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. See more.
They are: no mutation, a mutation linked to cancer or a mutation not currently known to increase breast cancer risk. Even if you are found to have a BRCA 1/2 mutation it does not mean you will get breast cancer. Learn more.
Imagine life without breast cancer - where your grandmother, mother, daughter, sister or friend doesn't have to worry if she will be the one-in-eight women diagnosed with the disease. By making a donation today, you can help save lives.
It may be your donation that pushes us past a major turning point in discovering and delivering the cures. On behalf of the women and men who will be diagnosed this year, next year and in the decade ahead, we urge you to do as much as you can as soon as you can. You can rest assured we'll put your contribution to good use.
Have questions? Email info@komenminnesota.org. To see the programs and services funded by Susan G. Komen Minnesota, with the help of registrants and fundraisers like you click here.
Susan G. Komen® Minnesota
960 Southdale Center Edina, MN 55435
Phone: 952-746-1760
Fax: 952-746-1763