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Race


We value your individual participation in the race. We salute your volunteer efforts, your community building through race teams and your fundraising work.

Click here to register for the 2008 Komen Maryland Race for the Cure® in Hunt Valley, MD on Sunday, October 19th. 

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Partners

Volunteers

On March 27, 2008 we awarded our annual Volunteer Awards for 2007. Read all about the awardees on our Volunteer Pages and register online for all available volunteer activities. 

Sponsors

Race sponsors and Affiliate sponsors create marketing opportunities for themselves on over 30,000 Race t-shirts and race collateral materials as well as through our various publications. 

Fundraising

Please visit our Calendar to review fundraising events sponsored by many of our generous fundraisers.

Oprah's longtime makeup artist comes to Baltimore; benefits Komen Maryland.  Please see our June Calendar.

Registration is now open for the  2008 Ride Across Maryland May 31st to June 2nd. Once again, RAM is heading to Ocean City to raise money to fight breast cancer. RAM has raised $1,185,000 over the last 7 years. 
THANK YOU!!! Find out more about RAM.


Queenie's Memorial Charity Golf Classic

 

Art for Cure is a new Maryland-based non-profit organization co-founded founded by longtime friends of the affiliate Jennifer Patrizio, Bob Stockfield, and Jennifer Tisch. They are dedicated to enabling survivors of life-threatening disease to use their art and creativity to give back to organizations like Komen Maryland that are making advances towards cures. 

Garth Brooks has joined forces with Susan G. Komen for the Cure with the release of the “Pink Edition” of his new The Ultimate Hits album. Find out how you can enjoy the new Garth Brooks music and raise money for Komen Maryland. 

Komen Maryland License Plates are now available for purchase. They look great and $25 from each set of plates goes directly to Komen Maryland! 

 

The promise of Susan G. Komen for the Cure is to save lives and end breast cancer forever by empowering people, ensuring quality care for all and energizing science to find the cures.

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Promise

Subscribe to our Komen Maryland Monthly e-Newsletter

Komen Maryland activates the Komen Promise by funding grants in the state of Maryland that provide solutions for today's breast health needs and national research grants
to find tomorrow's cures. The $2.3 million total funded last fiscal year is the largest amount ever granted by Komen Maryland.

Our 14th annual Educational Symposium on March 29th was a resounding success. This day of learning and celebration was enjoyed by over 400 registrants.

Special thanks to all of our volunteers; you are our strength. 
Thanks to our keynote speaker Marc Silver. Thanks to our emcee Kelly Swoope. Kelly is an Anchor / Medical Reporter for WMAR-TV and graced us with her 
friendliness and compassion. Read more and see photos here! 

We are proud to announce that Charity Navigator recently awarded Susan G. Komen for the Cure four out of four
stars for managing organizational finances. 
 

 

Survivors

Please visit our Survivor pages to find out how we are impacting breast healthcare in the state of Maryland.

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Programs

Mark your calendar for our 14th annual Educational Symposium on Saturday, March 29th, 2008 at the Hunt Valley Marriott. Join us for a day of education for breast cancer survivors, newly diagnosed women, their family and friends and health professionals.

For the first time we are offering Online Registration for the 2008 Educational Symposium. Please email Rebecca McCoy at rmccoy@komenmd.org if you have any questions at all. 

Marc Silver, the author of Breast Cancer Husband: How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) Through Diagnosis, Treatment, and Beyond, is our keynote speaker. We are pleased to be able to share with you this exciting opportunity to hear his insights regarding the journey through breast cancer treatment. 

  

Grants

Our Grants pages  offer a comprehensive review of our grant process - from Prospective Applicant information to our impressive roster of current grantees.

Education

In our Education pages you can find our Updated Resource Guide for Breast Health and Healing which contains resources for the state of Maryland and for individual Maryland counties. You can also find our online Breast Self Exam tool.

Komen has released a first-ever State of Breast Cancer report outlining progress that has been made and remaining challenges in the fight against breast cancer. This is an understandable and up-to-date overview on the status of breast cancer in the world.

On September 17, 2007 Komen Maryland hosted "Strategies for Working with the Migrant Worker Population and Breast & Cervical Cancer."
The Cultural Competency Training was held at Caroline County Health Department in Denton, Maryland.