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Pennsylvania
Breast Cancer Coalition President and Founder
Pat Halpin-Murphy, joins forces with the Montgomery
County Commissioners Michael D. Marino, Esq.,
James R. Matthews and Ruth S. Damsker; and
the Montgomery County Commission on Women and
Families to show support for the PBCC's "Income
Tax Check-off" program for Breast Cancer Research.
The event is Wednesday, February 16th at 3:30
p.m. in the Community Room of the Montgomery
County Human Services Building, Dekalb and
Fornance Streets in Norristown. The public
is encouraged to attend. In 1997, through legislation initiated by the
Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition, Governor
Tom Ridge established an income tax check check-off
provision allowing Pennsylvanians to donate their
state tax refund to breast and cervical cancer
research. In its first two years the program
has raised more than $500,000. One hundred percent
of the money raised is presented as grants to
researchers across the state. In April 1999,
Governor Tom Ridge and First Lady Michele Ridge,
Honorary Chair of the PBCC presented grants averaging
$25,000 to eleven researchers, including researchers
at Fox Chase Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania
and Temple University School of Medicine. Second-year
grants will be presented later this year.
Halpin-Murphy, of Horsham, co-chairs the Department
of Health's committee, which awards the research
grants. "The Income Tax Check-off gives
every Pennsylvania taxpayer the opportunity
to help
find a cure for breast cancer now...
so our daughters won't have to," said Halpin-Murphy.
We are thrilled to join forces with the Montgomery
County Commissioners and the Montgomery County
Commission on Women and Families to promote
this invaluable program."
The program will include comments from all
three Montgomery County commissioners; Pat Halpin-Murphy,
President and Founder of the PBCC; Bonnie Squires
of Wynnewood, PBCC Vice President for Development
and newly elected Chair of the Montgomery County
Commission on Women and Families; District Justice
Patricia Zaffarano; and Abass Alavi, M.D., research
grant recipient from the University of Pennsylvania.
The event is open to the public.
The Pennsylvania Breast Cancer
Coalition, founded in 1993, is a non-profit
organization. It serves
each of the state's 67 counties though programs
such as the Income Tax Check Off program, Mother's
Day Mammograms®, the Keystone Breast Cancer
Conference and "67 Women, 67 Counties: Facing
Breast Cancer in Pennsylvania." The Pennsylvania
Breast Cancer Coalition's mission is to find
a cure for breast cancer and to improve the
quality of breast cancer education, outreach
and research
in the state. |
