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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.
Ride Across Maryland saw a police escorted entrance for “Team Outback” into the Columbia Mall parking lot from the Glen Burnie restaurant! They had an amazing 246 team members and raised almost $75,000!!! Their efforts and all of those who contributed and enjoyed the ride are sincerely appreciated as a grand total of $225,000 was raised in the fight against breast cancer. RAM has contributed close to $1.5 million dollars to Komen Maryland in the past 8 years achieving a feat no other third party event in the country has ever reached...donating over a MILLION dollars! Congrats also to the winner of the new Victory motorcycle that can be ridden in its first ride next year! Thanks to all the volunteers, staff, participants and especially the entertainers who made this such a successful and enjoyable weekend. See you in 2009… Find out more about RAM.
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
We are partnering with Volunteer Maryland, a program of
the Governor's Office, to recruit a member for their
AmeriCorps program. This person will develop a new
volunteer program for Komen Maryland to mobilize
community education and outreach speakers.
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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
Grants
Komen Maryland is pleased to announce its request for proposals for the 2009-2010 grant cycle. Grants will be made to support efforts to reduce breast cancer disparities across Maryland.
Download the complete Request For Proposal (RFP) with eligibility criteria and online submission instructions. Applications must be completed and submitted online by Monday, November 3, 2008 at 5pm.
Komen Maryland offers free Grant Writing Workshops across the state for those interested in applying for funds. Click here for the schedule of our Grant Writing Workshops and for registration information.
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.
