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September 11, 2007

The Pink Shamrock Foundation is accepting grants for its 2007 guidelines.  I have included the following information for your organization to review.  We have tried to make it as painless as possible.  Grants proposals are accepted from September 15 to October 15, 2007.  Grants will be awarded at the end of November.

Please include the following information:

1.        Organization Information:  Name, address, contact person, title, mission statement of organization, and phone number.

2.        Grant Request:  Amount of Grant, project name and description, and the project budget.  Grant request should be no longer than one typed, double spaced page. 

3.        Attachments:  Copy of your most recent IRS tax-exempt certification and audited financial statement.

Please note:

1.        Proposals are acknowledged as they are received.

2.        Grants are made at the end of November.

3.        Only those organizations awarded a grant are notified.

4.     All materials submitted, are not returned.

5.        Proposals should be sent via US Mail.

6.        Faxed or email proposals are not accepted.

Follow Up Letter:

After the grant money has been used the agency is required to write a follow-up letter explaining the use of funds and how many people they were able to help.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

November 8, 2006

The Pink Shamrock Foundation (www.pinkshamrock.com) of Spokane, Washington announced its 2006 grants on October 26th, a party at the Montvale Hotel.  Tim Murphy, the Chairman of the Foundation, spoke about the Pink Shamrock Foundation and the work that it is doing to help impoverished people who are fighting breast cancer.  The Pink Shamrock Foundation focuses on poverty and breast cancer because Breast cancer knows no class, race or geography lines; all women are at risk. However, breast cancer’s seemingly egalitarian nature stops there: Women in lower socioeconomic levels have the lowest breast cancer survival rate on record.

The Foundation supports outreach services for underserved women with breast cancer by providing grants to dedicated individuals and organizations in the field.  Our aim is to support women’s diverse physical, mental and emotional needs, and to ensure all women are treated with compassion, respect and dignity, as they go through treatment for breast cancer.

The 2006 grants were given to: 

Cancer Patient Care of Spokane: $1,000.00 for cancer patient transportation and another $5,000 to help with general use.

Hospice of Spokane: To help families cope with the loss of their loved one – $1,000.00,

Toni Maries at Sacred Heart: Wigs and self esteem products – $500.00,

Providence Cancer Center: Gap funding, $1000.00,

Because There is Hope: A home for out of town patients,  $500.00.

Visiting Nurses Association of Spokane: Providing nurses to bedridden patients. $1000.00.