The Twin Tiers Region Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure issued a statement Friday regarding the revision to Komen National’s grant eligibility requirements.
The statement reads:
Komen Twin Tiers is not a political organization. We have never and will never choose a side in a political debate unrelated to our cause. Komen Twin Tiers exists to meet a singular mission - to end breast cancer forever. It is our intent to administer a Community Grants Program that meets the breast health needs of women and men in our local community, to create greater access, and to ensure quality of care. As such, today we wholeheartedly support Komen’s national decision to reverse controversial grants language. This enables Komen Twin Tiers to maintain control over granting decisions to ensure they best serve the needs of our local population.
We sincerely apologize to our loyal volunteers, Race participants, donors, sponsors, and community partners for the confusion and distraction from mission during the past few days.
Komen Twin Tiers serves Broome, Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga and Tompkins Counties in New York, and Bradford, Potter and Tioga Counties in Pennsylvania. Since 2000, Komen Twin Tiers has distributed more than $750,000 in local grant funds to organizations across our service region. We are currently reviewing grants applications for our 2012-13 Community Grants cycle. We look forward to supporting community nonprofit organizations for their worthy projects that support regional breast health funding priorities.
Community Grant funds are raised right here in the Twin Tiers, largely through the efforts of our annual Race for the Cure event. Without the dollars raised at this event, there are no funds to distribute. Breast cancer is an indiscriminate killer of mothers, sisters, daughters, and friends. We hope we can count on the support of our community so that we can continue to deliver on our important mission of providing breast health programming to the women and men of the Twin Tiers region.
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