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GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER RECEIVES $25,000 GRANT FROM PFIZER AND
THE AVON FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN TO SUPPORT PATIENTS LIVING
WITH METASTATIC BREAST CANCER
-- God's Love is One of 23 Organizations Nationwide to
Receive Funding; Grant Focuses on Enhancing Patient Support
and Efforts to Increase Public Understanding of the Disease
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God's
Love We Deliver is proud to announce that it has been chosen
as one of 23 grant recipients for the Avon-Pfizer Metastatic
Breast Cancer Grants Program: Identify-Amplify-Unify.
The program, run by the Pfizer Inc. and the Avon Foundation
for Women, granted a total of $1 million to 23 organizations
nationwide to support and educate more than 5,000 metastatic
breast cancer patients, their caregivers, and their
communities.
God's Love received $25,000 for our Breast Cancer Program to
support our work providing 20,000 nutritious meals to 75
metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients, their children and
their senior caregivers this year. With this grant, God's
Love will expand weekly meal service from 10 meals a week to
21 meals per week, so that MBC clients will receive meals to
cover all 7 days of the week. God's Love will target
enrollment of metastatic breast cancer clients from the most
marginalized communities through outreach activities,
including community presentations, networking meetings,
health fairs, and community events.
"God's Love We Deliver is honored to be partners with the
Avon Foundation and Pfizer," said God's Love President and
CEO Karen Pearl. "With this year's generous grant, we will
be able to provide people living with metastatic breast
cancer as well as their children and senior caregivers with
the nourishment they require to get through difficult
treatments and regain their strength. We will also be able
to provide them with the nutrition counseling and education
resources they need to achieve optimal health while living
with this severe illness."
Metastatic breast cancer is the most advanced
stage of breast cancer and occurs when cancer spreads beyond
the breast to other parts of the body, including the bones,
lungs, liver and brain. Nearly three in 10 women who have
had early breast cancer will eventually develop metastatic
disease. There are no cures currently available, and
continuous treatment is needed to control the spread of the
disease and its symptoms.
"To
date, the majority
of public attention on and funding for breast cancer has
centered on early-stage disease such as screening strategies
and survivorship not on late-stage diagnosis. As a
result, the Avon-Pfizer
Metastatic Grants Program was established to address
the gaps in support available to women and men living with
metastatic disease, and to create new services for
metastatic patients so they do not have to face this disease
alone," said Marc Hurlbert,
executive director of the Avon Foundation for Women Breast
Cancer Crusade. "Our hope is that one day all patients can
access the unique care and support services they need,
regardless of their ability to pay."
The Avon-Pfizer Metastatic Breast Cancer Grants Program was
created in June 2014 to support advocacy, academic and other
nonprofit organizations that provide information and
services to help people with metastatic breast cancer
navigate the medical and emotional challenges associated
with their disease.
"Pfizer is proud to join the Avon Foundation in supporting
these 23 important projects and the organizations driving
them," said Maya Martinez-Davis, regional president, North
America, Pfizer Oncology. "With the public breast cancer
conversation focused primarily on early breast cancer, there
is a need to foster greater understanding of metastatic
disease and increased support for metastatic patients and
their caregivers. Our hope is that the projects being
funded by the Avon-Pfizer Metastatic Breast Cancer Grants
Program will make a meaningful difference to the metastatic
breast cancer community."
About God?s Love We Deliver
God?s Love is the New York metropolitan area's leading
provider of life-sustaining meals and nutritional counseling
for people living with severe illnesses. Begun as an
HIV/AIDS service organization, today God's Love provides for
people living with more than 200 individual diagnoses. God's
Love cooks and home-delivers the specific, nutritious meals
a client's severe illness and treatment so urgently require.
Meals are individually tailored for each client by a team of
Registered Dietitians, and all clients have access to
unlimited nutrition counseling. God's Love supports families
by providing meals for the children and senior caregivers of
its clients. All of the agency's services are provided free
of charge, and in its history of more than 29 years, God's
Love has never had a waiting list. For more information,
visit www.godslovewedeliver.org.
Follow God's Love on Facebook and
follow them on Twitter, @godslovenyc.
God?s Love is a non-sectarian organization.
About Pfizer Oncology
Pfizer Oncology is committed to the discovery, investigation
and development of innovative treatment options to improve
the outlook for cancer patients worldwide. Our strong
pipeline of biologics and small molecules, one of the most
robust in the industry, is studied with precise focus on
identifying and translating the best scientific
breakthroughs into clinical application for patients across
a wide range of cancers. By working collaboratively with
academic institutions, individual researchers, cooperative
research groups, governments, and licensing partners, Pfizer
Oncology strives to cure or control cancer with breakthrough
medicines, to deliver the right drug for each patient at the
right time. For more information, please visit www.Pfizer.com.
About the Avon Foundation for Women
The Avon
Foundation for Women is
the world's largest corporate-affiliated philanthropy
focused on issues that matter most to women. Since its
inception in 1955, the Avon Foundation has promoted or aided
charitable, scientific, educational, and humanitarian
activities, with a special emphasis on activities that
improve the lives of women and their families. Through 2013,
Avon global philanthropy, led by the Avon Foundation, has
donated more than $957 million in more than 50 countries for
causes most important to women. Today, Avon philanthropy
focuses on funding breast cancer research and access to care
through the Avon
Breast Cancer Crusade, and efforts to reduce domestic
and gender violence through its Speak
Out Against Domestic Violence program.
Visit
www.avonfoundation.org for
more information.
About the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade
The Avon Breast Cancer Crusade, which launched in 1992 and
is led by the U.S.-based Avon
Foundation for Women, has placed Avon and the Avon
Foundation for Women at the forefront of the fight against
breast cancer; today, Avon is the leading corporate
supporter of the cause globally. Avon breast cancer programs
in more than 50 countries have donated more than $815
million for research and advancing access to care,
regardless of a person?s ability to pay. Avon awards funding
to beneficiaries ranging from leading cancer centers to
community-based grassroots breast health programs to support
breast cancer research and access to care. The Crusade has
enabled more than 18 million women globally to receive free
mammograms and breast cancer screenings, educated more than
145 million women about breast cancer, and funded promising
research into the causes of breast cancer and ways to
prevent the disease. The Avon Foundation raises funds for
the Crusade through the sale of
Avon 'Pink Ribbon' products.
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