Funding Priorities

A minimum of 25 percent of the net income from each domestic Affiliate Race supports the national Komen for the Cure Grant Program, which funds groundbreaking breast cancer research, meritorious awards and educational and scientific conferences around the world.

Up to 75 percent of the net income from each domestic Affiliate Race stays in the local community to fund breast health education, breast cancer screening and treatment projects.

Brief Summary of Priorities

Mission Action Plan

The Mission Action Plan presents the following: Problem / Need Statements followed by Priorities and Objectives. The Mission Action Plan will address the following Mission areas: (1)

Grantmaking Priorities, (2) Education, (3) Community Outreach and Collaboration, and (4) Public Policy.

Problem: Lyon County and Thurston Counties are considered to be 100 percent rural. Union County is predominantly rural. The health system analysis found that all target communities had advanced breast cancer treatment services a considered distance from rural areas. Focus groups and health care providers in Lyon, Thurston, and Union Counties indicated that the distance to treatment services made it difficult for women to adhere to treatment plans or to seek further treatment.

 Priority: Increase the opportunities for convenient and assessable transportation in Lyon, Thurston, and Union Counties to medical services for women requiring advanced screening and treatments.

Problem: Women in the target community of Lyon County and Union County have been cited in the Quantitative Data Report to have special breast cancer incidents. Lyon County has been identified as a high priority county due to the amount of Predicted Time to Achieve Late-stage Incidence Target for Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) forecasts and the county demonstrated a “Rising” rating in the Late-stage Rate Trend Direction. Union County’s screen rate is lower than the United States, the state of South Dakota, and the service area averages. The Quantitative Data Report cited the possibility women are experiencing barriers to receiving mammography screening, although none of the counties in the Affiliate service area had substantially different screening proportions. The key informant interviews for both target communities revealed women had inadequate breast health education especially the type of education which utilized social media and new technologies.

 Priority: Increase Lyon and Union County's capabilities to provide breast health education for all residents especially focusing on innovative and new technologies and social media.

 Priority: Access to breast health continuum of care through developing partnerships in Lyon and Union County as well as the neighboring counties who offer these target communities medical services. The partnerships will lead to improvements in the continuum of care for Lyon and Union Counties.

 Priority: Increase the capability in Thurston County to provide breast health education for American Indian residents.

Community Profile for Download

The Community Profile is a needs assessment document that provides an overview of Komen’s grant-making priorities and the breast health needs in our service area. Please familiarize yourself with this document before developing your applications.