Pink Shamrock Foundation Awards 2006 Grants to Five Different Cancer Organizations

The Pink Shamrock Foundation 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.

Spokane, WA (PRWEB) November 10, 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 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

Toni Maries at Sacred Heart: Wigs and self esteem products – $500

Providence Cancer Center: Gap funding, $1,000

Because There is Hope: A home for out of town patients, $500

Visiting Nurses Association of Spokane: Providing nurses to bedridden patients. $1,000

For more information about the Pink Shamrock Foundation please contact Megan Murphy at 509.999.8529.

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