For the City-Times

The Central Wisconsin Affiliate of Susan G. Komen announces the release for the 2014-2015 Community Grants.  The GeMS (Grants eManagement System) will be the format used for all grant requests. 

The Central Wisconsin Affiliate’s current focuses are for those who serve women in or from the following Central Wisconsin counties:  Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon, Portage, Taylor, Wood and western Shawano.  The Community Profile and funding priorities can be found on our affiliate website: http://www.komencentralwisconsin.org/grants/funding-priorities/

A training session for the grant funding will be held at Marathon County Health Department. You may also access the training session by using adobe connect on December 12, 2013 from 10:00-10:45 am if you are unable to attend.  This meeting will be archived and be available if you are not able to attend the training at http://www.komencentralwisconsin.org or https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Komen-Central-Wisconsin/115764845104054.

The grant applications will be due January 11, 2014 at 5 pm.  The grant application guide will be available on the affiliate Web site.  You will not submit paper copies of your grant.  Everything will be completed electronically on the GeMS site.

The application will be completed and submitted on GeMS, https://affiliategrants.komen.org. To register for the training or for an application instruction manual, please contact Patty Krug at [email protected] or 715-748-1410 with any questions you may have about the grant process or the GeMS training and site.  When initiating an application on GeMS, please make sure it is a Community Grants (CG) application.

The affiliate grant cycle runs from April 1, 2014 through March 31, 2015. Applications must be submitted through GeMS by 5pm, January 11, 2014. Announcements of funding decisions will be made on March 31, 2014. The affiliate accepts RFAs that range from $10,000 to more than $100,000.

The affiliate will provide in 2014 additional opportunities to apply for small grants after January 11, 2014. This funding can be utilized for education, conference or travel expenses associated with breast health education or training.  These grants can be applied anytime during the year.  Further information will be provided for these grant opportunities in January 2014.

The promise of Susan G. Komen for the Cure is to save lives and end breast cancer forever by empowering people, ensuring quality care for all and energizing science to find the cures. The organization runs one of the most innovative, responsive grant programs in breast cancer today. The Central Wisconsin Affiliate is proud to have made a difference with almost $1 millions in local grants for area breast health programs.

About Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and the Komen Central WI Affiliate

Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure and launched the global breast cancer movement. The Central WI Affiliate of Komen for the Cure is working to better the lives of those facing breast cancer in the local community, joining more than 1 million breast cancer survivors and activists around the globe as part of the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting breast cancer. Through events like the Komen Race for the Cure®, the Central WI Affiliate has invested almost $1,000,000 in community breast health programs in our seven county area, Central WI region. Up to 75 percent of net proceeds generated by the Affiliate stays in Central WI. The remaining income goes to the national Susan G. Komen for the Cure Grants Program to fund research.

For more information, visit http://www.komencentralwisconsin.org