Founded in 1986, the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations is the leading non-profit information and education resource on breast cancer, and a network of nearly 400 member organizations agencies and organizations in the United States breast cancer community that deliver detection, diagnosis, treatment, support, and care.
Staff is supplemented by consultants, volunteers, and student interns.
Program activities are complemented by Administration, and supported in part by Development initiatives and Special Events. Education programs reach the public with the facts about breast health and breast cancer, along with recommended early detection, screening, and follow-up behaviors. Education projects vary with their delivery channels, program partners, and target audiences. Outreach programs offer low-income and underserved women education and links to screening and care. Within Our Reach sm program, launched in June 2000, is a national grantmaking and technical assistance fund that will extend breast cancer education, screening and diagnosis to medically-underserved women in their communities.