Grants & Grant Recipients

ACAT is an environmental action organization with a statewide focus. This year’s funding is focused on younger women, specifically creating an awareness of environmental toxins on their health now and in the future.

This funding will support continued development of a Peer Leader Navigator (PLN) project. The program is designed to create greater breast cancer awareness through outreach by PLNs in culturally diverse communities in the Anchorage area.

Administered by Anchorage YWCA. Provides access to mammography services for medically underserved women.

Funding is in partial support of an ACA-sponsored clinical research project entitled “Enhancer Mechanisms and Interventions in Breast Cancer Endocrine Resistance.” Findings can expand knowledge of therapy resistance, and lead to the successful development of new drugs and therapies for patients with endocrine-resistant breast cancers.

Provides funding for mobile mammography services, focusing on under-served populations of women, primarily in rural Alaska and at a fixed-site in Fairbanks. A support program funds both screening mammograms and maintenance expenses. The program travels to remote Alaska communities, providing quality services regardless of ability to pay.

A local peer support group will be revising its “Let’s Talk” program. The focus is on underserved, rural communities in Southeast Alaska, and funding is for educational materials and development of a support network to connect vulnerable women with needed resources.

Program is geared to women survivors of breast cancer, using the power of nature through the therapeutic sport of fly fishing. It marries the physical therapy of fly fishing with the emotional support of group therapy. Funding will support a fly fishing retreat in Alaska in the Fall of 2025.

Women’s Health Outreach Program-This clinical provider reaches a significant number of medically underserved women for outreach and early detection of breast cancer on the Kenai Peninsula and villages across Kachemak Bay. Their range has expanded from Cooper Landing to Kachemak Bay, and their contribution to rural outreach is well documented on the Kenai Peninsula.

Funding is specific to the unmet needs of metastatic breast cancer individuals and their caregivers. Retreat sessions include oncology consultations, end-of-life preparations, understanding the patient’s hopes and fears along with support of healthy living.

This project will provide free post-mastectomy supplies that are not reimbursable by insurance to breast cancer patients.

This organization works with more than 230 clinical researchers and maintains an A+ rating from Charity Watch. This grant will help support translational clinical research studies geared toward changing and improving breast cancer treatment.

(Max Kullberg, UAA Research Professor)-Support is provided for laboratory supplies for an on-going research project; investigating a strategy to enhance antigen-presentation and prophylactic treatment using a breast cancer model of cancer.

This grant will provide scholarships for Breast Cancer Survivors to take part in the XTRA TUFFS program. This integrated team approach introduces healthy lifestyle changes including weekly physical, nutritional and mental health support to help members create integrative whole-body wellness.