Renée Zellweger - The Fight For The Cure

THE BENEFICIARIES

CancerCare (www.cancercare.org)
CancerCare's Special Assistance Project for Underserved Women helps women face the many challenges of a cancer diagnosis by providing free professional services like emotional counseling, education and information, financial assistance for treatment-related costs, and practical help. CancerCare helps women across the country, with any kind of cancer, at any stage of the disease. (800) 813-HOPE (4673)

Columbia University Breast Cancer Screening Partnership of NY - Presbyterian Hospital (www.cc.columbia.edu)
This program provides free breast, cervical and colorectal screening to medically underserved women in Manhattan. Funds from the Run/Walk will offset the cost of treatment for these women diagnosed with cancer.  (212) 851-4516

Gilda's Club New York City (www.gildasclubnyc.org)
Gilda's Club New York City, named for comedian Gilda Radner, opened its signature red door in 1995 as a place where anyone touched by cancer could go for social and emotional support as a supplement to medical care. Gilda's Club NYC provides essential support in warm homelike settings at the Manhattan and Brooklyn Clubhouses, at absolutely no cost. Funding will be used to help reach an expanding and more diverse membership. (212) 647-9700

Gouverneur Diagnostic and Treatment Center; Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening and Early Detection Program
Gouverneur Healthcare Services, on Manhattan's ethnically diverse Lower East Side, provides high quality comprehensive women's health services regardless of a patient's ability to pay. Event proceeds will be used to pay for diagnostic services and treatment for uninsured women with cancer and to develop Chinese and Spanish language educational outreach materials. (212) 238-7997

Harlem Hospital Cancer Control Center
Funds will provide low-income women with culturally sensitive outreach and educational programs on the early detection of breast cancer. Through free cancer screening clinics, women gain access to free breast exams and screening mammography. Of note is the result of our early detection of breast cancer in Harlem community, which has significantly increased the early stage presentation (Stage 0&I, 0% in 1989 to 42% in 2003)and breast cancer survival (39% in 1989 to 70% overall 5 year survival). (212) 939-8043

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (www.mskcc.org)
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Gynecology Service has instituted a major research program in the molecular genetics and biology of ovarian cancer. The aims of this program are to identify genetic factors that increase a woman’s risk to develop ovarian cancer, the development of new approaches for the diagnosis of the disease, and the development of new therapies. Our group has been studying pathways and genes expressed in ovarian cancers in order to find new molecular targets for the treatment of this disease.  This year, funding will be used to help find the best  anti-angiogenic strategies (blocking tumor blood vessel formation). Ovarian cancer remains the most lethal of the gynecologic malignancies, and despite recent advances in treatment, the overall five-year survival remains low and thus the further intensive study of this disease is critical. 646-227-3668.

Nassau University Medical Center (www.numc.edu)
The Patient Navigator Program provides bilingual patient navigators to patients both during their initial visit to our screening services and during follow-up to their breast exams. Under the direction of the Nurse Case Manager, the patient navigator aids the women through the Nassau University Medical Center health care system and support services available in Nassau County. (516) 572-3300

National Breast Cancer Coalition (www.stopbreastcancer.org)
Funds will be used to support NBCC's unique educational programs. The grant will also enable NBCC to train activists in the science of breast cancer, enabling them to serve as consumer advocates on panels that help determine where breast cancer research funds are awarded; to improve advocates' leadership skills; to better understand clinical trials and help consumers become participants in trial conception, design, accrual and oversight. (202) 296-7477

National Women’s Cancer Research Alliance (NWCRA)
NWCRA was founded in 1997 by Lilly Tartikoff and the Entertainment Industry Foundation, along with charter sponsor, to fund critical research in women’s cancers through a working alliance with leading medical institutions throughout the United States. NWCRA supports “cutting-edge” research directed at the development of new and more effective approaches to the early diagnosis and treatment of all women’s

New York University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology
(http://www.med.nyu.edu/pharmacology/research/)
Funds will support research in the Department of Pharmacology at the NYU School of Medicine on the role of receptor tyrosine kinases, receptor tyrosine phosphatases, and hormone receptors, such as the estrogen receptor and retinoid receptors on the development and treatment of breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers. Members of the Department use the latest molecular biology and crystallization techniques to elucidate the three dimensional structures of receptors and their related factors to develop drugs to selectively block their activities.  We have identified a novel pathway which when targeted specifically leads to the death of breast cancer cells.  The goal is to develop new drugs with minimal side effects of the treatment of breast cancer and other malignancies. (212) 263-7111

Ovarian Cancer National Alliance (www.ovariancancer.org)
The Ovarian Cancer National Alliance, a survivor-led umbrella organization, works to increase public and professional understanding of ovarian cancer and to advocate for more effective diagnostics, treatments, and a cure.  Funds from the Revlon Run/Walk will assist the Alliance in increasing the capacity of ovarian cancer organizations across the country and to grow leaders that will directly contribute to the Alliance’s overall goal of raising awareness of the signs and symptoms of this deadliest of gynecologic cancers. (202) 331-1332

Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of New York (www.svcmc.org)
The Screening, Education and Treatment Program for Homeless Women is dedicated to providing quality cancer care through its facilities in Staten Island and Manhattan. This cancer program targeting women's health offers a full range of medical services to impoverished, underserved, homeless women. Run/Walk funds will be used to engage and provide health care to women in the service area with breast and gynecologic cancers for whom financial and emotional barriers and chaotic lifestyle often prevent effective treatment. (212) 604-2705.

The Actors' Fund of America - Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative (www.actorsfund.org)
Hundreds of women each year rely on the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative for resources and support in the face of traumatic illness, injury, or violence. PNWHI provides access to counselors; support services; health care; diagnostic, preventive and mental heath services; substance abuse treatment; and emergency assistance to women who work in any facet of entertainment and the performing arts, many of them compromised by a lack of health insurance.  This initiative is a program of The Actors' Fund, the 124 year old national human services organization that supports all who work in the entertainment and performing arts community. Please call 212.221.7300 for more information.

The William F. Ryan Community Health Center (www.ryancenter.org)
The Ryan Center is a not-for-profit Community Health Center that provides high quality, affordable, primary, preventative and specialty health care and supportive services to minority and medically underserved populations. Funds will be used to provide uninsured and underinsured women with free annual GYN Exams, including PAP Smear and Breast Exams at Ryan's main site and its satellite, Ryan-NENA, and affiliate Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton.  (212)749-1820

YWCA of Brooklyn EncorePlus Program (www.ywcabklyn.org)
The YWCA of Brooklyn’s women’s health initiative is dedicated to reducing racial and economic disparities in health care. The YWCA’s EncorePlus program provides medically underserved women with breast health education, clinical breast exams, and mammograms.  As a member of the Brooklyn Breast Health Partnership, the YWCA coordinates free mammograms with most of the major medical centers in the borough.  Women undergoing treatment and in recovery are linked with a peer navigator, and participate in support groups and specialized exercise classes at the YWCA. (718) 875-1190

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