To learn more about the Denver Affiliate and ways you can support the Komen mission, please visit their website at http://www.komendenver.org

The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, headquartered in Dallas, was established in 1982 because of a promise made between two sisters. Before her death from breast cancer at age 36, Susan Goodman Komen asked her sister Nancy to promise that she would do everything possible to bring an end to the disease. By establishing the Foundation, Nancy Goodman Brinker kept her promise. Today, the Foundation is an international organization with a network of 75,000 volunteers working through more than 100 Affiliates and Komen Race for the Cure events.

The Denver Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was founded in 1994 to raise awareness of breast cancer while raising funds to help eradicate the disease on a local level. The Affiliate has raised over $15 million through the Komen Denver Race for the Cure, the Pink Tie Affair, third party benefits, corporate gifts and sponsorships and individual donations. As a grant-making organization, the Affiliate distributes these funds right back into the community through grants to not-for-profit organizations that focus on providing breast cancer education, screening, treatment and treatment support to uninsured and underinsured individuals.

The Denver Affiliate is proud to be a very volunteer-oriented organization. Through the generous efforts of their volunteers, sponsors, donors and other supporters, they keep their expense to revenue ratio to 18%.