FUNDING
Through its research, fellowship, and community grant programs, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation - Ontario Region invests in projects that address the full spectrum of breast health and breast cancer. This includes:
Since 2000, the Foundation has allocated more than $50 million in Ontario alone to breast cancer research, community health projects, and other programs that will make a difference in the lives of people touched by breast cancer.
In addition to the work funded directly through its grant programs, the Foundation is a funding partner in the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance, an organization that combines the resources of private, public and non-profit organizations to fund breast cancer research. From 2001 to 2006, the Foundation was the lead funder of the Ontario Breast Cancer Community Research Initiative, a research team that focused on the social, psychological, emotional and spiritual impacts of breast cancer.
The Foundation also allocates funding to other strategic initiatives that are aligned with the our vision and mission but fall outside the parameters or timing of established funding mechanisms.
Primary prevention and risk factors: Projects studying known and suspected risk factors for breast cancer to build long-term knowledge about how to stop the disease before it starts.
Breast cancer biology: Projects studying how breast cancer grows, changes, and spreads in the body and how we might be able to change its course of action.
Detection, diagnosis, and treatment: Projects aiming to improve the way we screen for, diagnose, and treat breast cancer, so that people with the disease can have better outcomes.
Supportive care and survivor quality of life: Projects aiming to enhance the care people with breast cancer receive, and help them achieve a better quality of life after treatment ends.
Community education and health promotion: Projects that enable communities to meet their breast health and breast cancer needs within a health promotion framework.
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