The Avon Breast Cancer Crusade seeks to improve breast cancer outcomes and reduce disparities in survival rates at the community and national level. Our strategic grant making reflects: a holistic and place-based approach in high-need areas throughout the United States; a commitment to enabling access to medical advances and support services for breast cancer patients, particularly those from vulnerable populations; and a commitment to investing in research on the prevention, diagnostics, and treatment of breast cancer.

The Avon Breast Cancer Crusade focuses on care and seeks to help across the continuum of breast cancer – not only helping those who are at risk or diagnosed with the disease today, but also research into finding better treatments for tomorrow.

Houston 2016 Beneficiaries

• Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation received a $50,000 grant that will allow patient advocates to attend the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, the world’s largest breast cancer conference, where they will receive advanced training and share best practices.
• Avon Breast Health Outreach Program received $227,000 to provide assistance to community groups in Houston, El Paso, Beaumont, San Antonio, and Lubbock for community outreach, patient navigation and mammography screenings.
• Baylor College of Medicine, the AVON 39 medical sponsor, received $100,000 to increase access to state-of-the-art diagnostics and treatment for women in Houston, including genetic testing for women with a family history of breast cancer.
• The Methodist Hospital Foundation received a $100,000 grant to assist 2,000 underserved, at-risk breast cancer patients at the Denver Harbor Clinic.
• The Rose received a $100,000 grant to provide patient navigation services and low-or-no cost breast cancer surgical and diagnostic procedures to women living in rural areas of Southeast Texas.
• M.D. Anderson Cancer Center received a $236,000 grant to research drugs that tackle inflammatory breast cancer, a rare and aggressive type of breast cancer, and a $100,000 grant to support Breast Cancer Nurse Navigators at Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital in Houston.