Babylon Breast Cancer Coalition ♥
Babylon Township, NY — Pink Aid’s grant supports BBCC’s Lend a Helping Hand Program, providing non-medical financial assistance and transportation to medical appointments and treatment. Contact: Karen Kunkel @ info@babylonbreastcancer.org, 631-893-4110
Coalition for Women’s Cancers at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital ♥
Southampton, NY — The CWC’s Neighbors Helping Neighbors Program provides non-medical emergency financial assistance with housing and utility bills, transportation to treatment, prostheses, wigs, lymphedema sleeves/therapy, grocery cards, child care and house cleaning. Contact: Susan Barry Roden @ sroden@cwcshh.org, 631-726-8715
Islip Breast Cancer Coalition ♥
Islip Township, NY — Pink Aid funds support Islip BCC’s Lend a Helping Hand program, helping provide transportation, housekeeping, wigs, prostheses, lymphedema treatment and sleeves, and financial assistance for food and household expenses. Contact: Gina Cacoperdo @ info@islipbreastcancer.com, 631-968-7424
Long Island Community Hospital ♥
Brookhaven, NY — The hospital’s Breast Cancer Survivorship Coalition (BCSC) and Lend a Helping Hand programs (LAHH), utilize Pink Aid funding to provide non-medical financial assistance with household bills, child care, grocery cards and gas cards. Contact: Merilyn Konnerth @ mkonnerth@licommunityhospital.org, 631-654-7577
Lucia’s Angels: Eastern ♥
Suffolk County, NY — Lucia’s Angels provides assistance to women and families going through late stage breast cancer. Pink Aid’s funds support their Lend a Helping Hand program, providing transportation to and from medical appointments, gas cards, therapeutic massage, grocery cards, childcare, and housing and utility financial assistance. Contact: Stacy Quarty @ stacy@luciasangels.org, 631-204-9331
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ♥
Uniondale, NY — The Food to Overcome Outcomes Disparities (FOOD) Program is a hospital based pantry program designed to address food insecurity among cancer patients in active treatment in order to improve cancer treatment adherence and outcomes. Contact: Francesca Gany @ ganyf@mskcc.org
Northwell Health ♥
Nassau & Suffolk County, NY — The Pink Aid Breast Cancer Hardship Fund at Northwell Health Cancer Institute provides critical support for non-medical necessities, including transportation to and from treatment, groceries, wigs and recovery garments, child care, housecleaning services and other basic needs. Contact: Barbara Thiem, Breast Cancer Nurse Navigator, bbarile@northwell.edu, 516-734-8837
Peconic Bay Medical Center ♥
Suffolk County, NY — The medical center’s Pink Aid Hardship Fund supports non-medical emergency needs, such transportation to and from treatment, post-surgical recovery garments, wigs and other prostheses, groceries, and housing and utility financial assistance. Pink Aid also funds PBMC’s bilingual breast cancer-specific Navigation Coordinator to help underserved patients through their diagnosis and treatment. Contact: Maureen O’Connor, moconnor10@northwell.edu, 631-548-6320
Rockville Centre Breast Cancer Coalition ♥
Southern Nassau County, NY — Pink Aid provides funding for the coalition’s Outreach Program, designed to provide financial and emotional support including transportation, meal deliveries, grocery shopping, housecleaning, health and wellness services and child care. Contact: info@rvcbcc.org, 516-782-3496
West Islip Breast Cancer Coalition ♥
Nassau and Suffolk County, NY — West Islip’s Lend a Helping Hand Program provides assistance with transportation to and from treatment, post-surgical recovery garments, wigs, prostheses, groceries and housing expenses. Contact: info@wibcc.org, (631) 669-7770
♥ = Pink Aid 2020 Grant Recipient