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Contact:
Ellen Shafer
701-219-0333

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (November 5, 2008) – The Hope Foundation of North Dakota, the official foundation of Cancer Center of North Dakota in Grand Forks, has received a $1,875 grant from the North Dakota Cancer Coalition. The grant was used for the Fort Totten semi-annual mammogram promotion at Indian Health Services.
           The mammogram promotion was conducted in October, national Breast Cancer Awareness Month, on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation. Mammograms were free to Native American women. Each woman who had a mammogram received a $5 Walmart gift card and was entered in a raffle to win a hand made quilt.
           The Hope Foundation conducted a similar mammogram promotion on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation in May 2008. More than 60 women took advantage of the free mammograms.
About the Hope Foundation of North Dakota
           The Hope Foundation of North Dakota is dedicated to building community-based relationships between individual, organizations and businesses to support cancer prevention and screening programs, education programs, patient-support services, financial support services, cancer research and the fulfillment of the North Dakota Cancer Coalition State Cancer Plan. More information is found at www.HopeFoundationND.org.
About the North Dakota Cancer Coalition
            The North Dakota Cancer Coalition is made up of partners from across the state working together with the common goal of reducing the incidence and death of cancer among North Dakotans. North Dakota Cancer Coalition partners worked together to write North Dakota’s Cancer Control Plan. Visit www.ndcancercoalition.org for more information.