The Community Foundation of Broward’s $200,000 in new “Cancer Screening and Care Grants” are raising awareness about lifesaving services and making them more readily available to Broward residents in need.  

We are partnering with nine Broward nonprofit organizations, providing grants of up to $25,000 each, to increase cancer screenings and improve access to patient care, particularly for residents with limited resources.

Our new Cancer Screening and Care support includes:

• Gilda’s Club South Florida – Early Detection: Better Outcome: To promote early detection and screening for a 175 men and women, organize more community-based breast cancer screening and education events, connect participants with financial support and referrals for diagnostic tests, biopsies and treatment.
• Memorial Foundation, Inc. – Promoting Breast Cancer Prevention in South Florida: To make breast health education and diagnostic services more accessible for 300 uninsured and underinsured women in Broward County who face financial and systemic barriers to care.
• Holy Cross Hospital, Inc. – Partners in Breast Health: To expand outreach education, clinical breast exams, screening mammograms, and diagnostic procedures to 500 uninsured, lower-income individuals aged 40 and older in Broward County, with services also available to symptomatic women under 40.
• Mount Olive Development Corporation – Cancer Care Connections: Awareness, Prevention & Support: To close the gap in cancer prevention and care by increasing breast and prostate cancer screenings for 400 residents in Broward County’s low-income Black communities.
• All About Healthy Living Foundation Inc. – Healthy Futures Cancer Screening & Care: To expand access to lifesaving cancer screenings for 50 underserved families in Broward County. Through mobile health events and on-site services.
• American Lung Association – Lung Cancer Screening Access and Support: To address lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S. by increasing early detection through the Saved by the Scan screening for 500 people at highest risk for lung cancer like former smokers.
• Light of the World Clinic – Community Cares Cancer Screening Program: To expand access to free cancer screenings for 200 uninsured men and women in Broward County by combining community education campaigns with direct clinical services.
• Empowered To Thrive, Inc. – Project ACCESS-Advancing Cancer Care, Education and Screening Services: To raise awareness about cancer prevention and treatment in underserved minorities by providing culturally relevant education and outreach to 500 Broward County residents.
• Broward Community and Family Health Centers (BCOM) – BCOM Cancer Initiative: To increase access to lifesaving cancer screenings, raise community awareness about the importance of early detection, and provide comprehensive support services to improve health outcomes for 300 patients.

Our Commitment to Fighting Cancer

Since 2016, the Community Foundation has provided more than $3 million to fight cancer. Thanks to support from our fundholders, we invest in opportunities to advance local cancer research that makes lifesaving clinical trials, precision medicine and targeted therapies accessible to Broward cancer patients. We also strive to enable accessibility to revolutionary discoveries in cancer therapy and provide support systems for all Broward cancer patients. In addition to this new call for cancer-fighting proposals, during 2025 we have already approved $900,000 in new support – spread over three years – for cutting-edge research and treatments. It’s all made possible by the dedicated philanthropists who partner with us to shape a brighter future for the community we love.

Thank You, Fundholders!

Like all Community Foundation grants, this wave of support is made possible by the dedicated fundholders who partner with the Foundation to create charitable funds to fuel their philanthropy and shape a brighter future for the community we love. The Community Foundation shepherds 590 charitable funds and over 40 years has provided $215 million in support for health care, student achievement, the arts, career readiness, seniors in need, equity and social justice, environmental resilience, health care, affordable housing, disaster relief, nonprofit empowerment and much more.

To find out how you can partner with the Community Foundation to help provide cancer-fighting support, contact Vice President Kelly Marmol at kmarmol@cfbroward.org or 954-761-9503.

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