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2012 Komen NC Triad Race for the Cure®

The NC Triad Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® is dedicated to combating breast cancer at every front. Up to 75 percent of the Affiliate’s net income goes toward funding grants to local hospitals and community organizations that provide breast health education and breast cancer screening and treatment programs for medically underserved women. The remaining net income (a minimum of 25 percent) supports the national Komen Grants Program, which funds groundbreaking breast cancer research, meritorious awards and educational and scientific programs around the world.

The Komen NC Triad Affiliate’s service area covers 11 counties (Alamance, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Wilkes, and Yadkin).  Thanks to the thousands of people who participant in the Komen NC Triad Race for the Cure® and other Affiliate events each year, dedicated 365 Partners and generous donors, Komen NC Triad is playing a vital role in fighting breast cancer in our community.
   

Susan G. Komen for the Cure®                                                                                  

We've have done it again!  Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, global leader in the breast cancer movement, has received Charity Navigator's highest rating -- four stars -- for the fourth consecutive year!  With this rating, Komen for the Cure® becomes one of only 9 percent of the approximately 5,400 charities that Charity Navigator evaluates which has received at least four straight 4-start ratings. 

"Achieving Charity Navigator's highest rating for fiscal soundness is an incredible achievement for even one year during these economic times," said Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, Komen's founder and CEO.  "But to garner this rating four consecutive years is a true testatament to the hard work of our entire Susan G. Komen for the Cure® family.  My gratitude also goes out to our Affiliates, our volunteers, and our staff, who have proven, once again, to be responsible stewards of our contributors' money as everyone continues to try to fulfill our promise of saving lives and ending breast cancer forever."  

Komen for the Cure®, which raised more than $347 million in revenue for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009, received a 63.34 rating from Charity Navigator, equaling its 2008 four-star rating from the leading charity evaluator in the U.S.

About Susan G. Komen for the Cure®

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®, which is now the world's largest breast cancer organization and the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer with more than $1.5 billion invested to date.  For more information about Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, breast health or breast cancer, visit www.komen.org or call your local Komen NC Triad Affiliate at 336-721-0037.