Think About This:   If the Annual Budget is $500,000, including In-Kind, Volunteer hours, telephone and communications, a CEO ($50,000), and a staff's salaries, and benefits, patient services, plus mailing, design services, materials, travel, continuing education, and insurance, etc. and there are 520,128 minutes in a year,  and  if only one person was "The PROJECT!" their value would be approximately .965 cents a minute.

"Do you have a minute...?"

• How many minutes does a mammogram take?  (30 minutes)
• How many minutes does it take to do an interview using our double-risk model, and a clinical breast exam? (60 minutes)
• How long do board members and volunteers spend helping women and their loved ones on the List Server?  (24 hours!)
• How much time do volunteers spend in the Technology Committee, PR//Volunteer Committee, Executive Committee, writing the newsletter, gathering data from NIH and NCI on breast cancer, or traveling to meet with each other, or giving speeches to churches, corporate groups, a neighborhood meeting with often only three people, but one - already has breast cancer and we sent her to a surgeon to be examined?  MANY, MANY HOURS.
• How long does an informative message take to send out to women on our breast cancer "Help Requested" list?  2 hours.
• How long does it take to explain to a frightened woman (or her spouse) that mammograms will not harm her and that she will be well covered and respected?  15 minutes
• How long does it take to provide a no-cost second opinion on a biopsy by a world-renown surgical pathologist?  120+
• How long does it take the pathologist to respond to the patient requesting the second opinion?  Often more than 120 minutes.
• How long does it take to respond to a woman's plea for help when she has no insurance, and has been told she has "a mass?"  2-12 hours.
• How long does a breast radiologist give to review mammograms and discuss the findings with the woman? (1-3 hours)
• How long does it take a breast surgeon or oncologist to email us back, "I'll help her!" for women who are un-insured, or under-insured?  (3 hours +)
• What is an Annual Fund?  A gift from the donor's income flow, to support a bare bones budget.

Our minutes must be paid for to save lives, and to prevent breast cancer.  We spend many minutes healing broken hearts, providing women with expert second opinions, supporting them in ways to increase communications with their physicians and healthcare providers, debunking myths, and teaching them about breast care, and breast cancer, and direct care by our caring physicians (hours of their time), and computer instructors so they may stay in touch with their medical teams, and lastly, helping anyone who has "fallen through the cracks," regardless of income, spirituality, ethnicity, culture, or geographic location.

In 2003, Lockheed Martin - Dallas: Gave over 34 hours of continuous service to our fight against breast cancer and the prevention of this killer!  "THANK  YOU!"

Donations may be made via interbank transfer, by mail, or online.

"THANK YOU, AGAIN"

Carol J. Thompson, Chairman