Advocacy
 
All of our advocacy efforts are instrumental in the fight against breast cancer.  GBCCF is dedicated to bringing awareness to issues impacting families who are living with and dying from breast cancer.  By responding quickly to critical legislative and public policy issues on breast cancer, our advocates work to demand funding for research programs that will help us find the causes of breast cancer and bring us closer toward a cure.
 
 
Advocacy Alert

Each year, we ask the House and the Senate to sign on to letters to the DOD appropriations committee leadership to support the Department of Defense (DOD) peer-reviewed Breast Cancer Research Program. This year's House of Representatives letter in support has already begun circulating. We are asking that the program be level-funded at $150 million and we need your help!

Please contact your state Representatives TODAY to urge them to make a difference in the fight against breast cancer by signing the letter. We especially would like to reach out to Georgia's Rep. Hank Johnson (D-4th), Rep. Tom Price (R-6th), Rep. John Barrow (D-12th) and Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-2nd). Thank you in advance for joining us in the fight to end breast cancer!


Contacting your representative...

Know your legislator
To determine who represents you in Congress, visit www.votesmart.org. You can also click here to view a PDF file containing the House and Senate representatives for Georgia and their contact information. Call, write or email your representative.

Your Message:
"I urge you to show your support for ending breast cancer by signing the letter to the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee calling for $150 million-level funding-in appropriations, for the DOD peer-reviewed Breast Cancer Research Program for FY 2011."

Next Steps
If your Representative agrees to sign the letter, her/his staff should email or call one of the following letter sponsor staffers to make it happen:

Chris Bigelow in Rep. Nita Lowey's office at 202-225-6506
Griffin Foster in Rep. Judy Biggert's office at 202-225-3515
Lisa Salerno in Rep. McGovern's office at 202-225-6101
Dana Richter with Rep. Frank LoBiondo's office at 202-225-6572
 

 

GBCCF President and breast cancer survivor, Ruth Eldredge,
on Capitol Hill for National Lobby Day 2009

 

The GBCCF's advocacy efforts include:

  • Meeting regularly with members of the Georgia legislature

  • Maintaining a statewide network of advocates

  • Lobbying on both the state and national level about the need for better funded research

  • Participating in Lobby Day in Washington, DC while attending the National Breast Cancer Coalition’s Annual Meeting and Advocacy Workshop

 

Make a DIFFERENCE

One person may feel powerless to bring about change.  But, when individuals ban together for the greater cause they can and do make a difference.

Join our advocacy network today

Fight to eliminate breast cancer

 
 
   
 
   


The Georgia Breast Cancer Coalition Fund | Phone: (404) 633-6499 | E-mail: gbccf@att.net
12195 Highway 92, Suite 114-340, Woodstock, GA 30188