As a woman with dense breasts and a young survivor of breast cancer, I am happy to conclude another Breast Cancer Awareness Month. While the month of October is over, the need to end breast cancer is not.
I volunteer because I want all breast cancer patients to have the outcomes I have had. I want to change the system that creates barriers to care, whether logistically or financially, for breast cancer patients. I want Black, Brown and Indigenous people to have the same survival outcomes as white people. These changes can only be made through systemic change.
Wisconsin Breast Cancer Coalition (WBCC) is the state’s only volunteer-led non-profit that focuses on systemic changes through legislation to ensure breast cancer patients receive the equitable, affordable care they deserve. To make a difference, we need funding to support education on critical breast cancer issues, advocate training and attendance at state advocacy day and at the National Breast Cancer Coalition’s (NBCC) annual Leadership Summit and Project LEAD Training (more information here).
Today we introduce the Sustainer donation program. Today you can begin making a monthly donation of a little as $1 to support the work of WBCC.
Examples of what your donation will allow WBCC to do:
$5/month – two months subscription fees of our email software
$10/month – one advocate attendance at Advocacy Day in Madison
$25/month – printing of WBCC informational brochures for sharing throughout the state of Wisconsin
$50/month – develop survivor direct programming
$85/month – one advocate to attend the National Breast Cancer Coalition’s Project LEAD
$100/month – one advocate to attend NBCC’s annual Leadership Summit
In order to continue the work we are doing, we need your support financially. Please donate today.
Thank you!
Lindsey Nathan O’Connor
WBCC President