Booby Innovation Grant (BIG)

Are you a young women who's experienced breast cancer? Got a bright idea to support other young women like you? We want to hear from you!

Rethink Breast Cancer has developed the Booby Innovation Grant (BIG) to provide young breast cancer survivors with start-up funds to give back to the breast cancer community. The grant, the first of its kind in Canada, empowers survivors to create innovative products, programs or initiatives to relieve suffering and improve the quality of life of other young women diagnosed with the disease.

The grant provides funds to young women with a personal history of breast cancer who, during their own journey with the disease, have recognized a gap in support services for young women in treatment for or healing from breast cancer. What's great is that it also enables the grant recipients to devote themselves to work in the supportive care field and encourages them to take their own life in a new direction post-breast cancer.

BIG is intended to support work that is innovative and creative. This is a new grant program and we are open to considering a wide range of proposals.

Letters of Intent are due by October 30, 2009.

For more information visit http://www.rethinkbreastcancer.com/ or email support@rethinkbreastcancer.com.

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