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Komen for the Cure
Organizations Which Support Women's Health
What Women Golfers are Doing to Support Research into Women's Health Issues
 Women golfers enjoy activity and appreciate good health and physical fitness. As active women, they are especially sensitive to those health conditions the attack women such as breast and ovarian cancers. Women and the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) support charity events that benefit research and provision of services that affect women’s health. Raising money for charity is one of the main objectives of the LPGA and its tournaments. Since the LPGA started tracking charitable contributions in 1981, the cumulative charitable donations from the LPGA and its tournaments is approximately $150 million.
 The Susan G. Komen For The Cure has been the official national charity of the LPGA since 1992. Members of the LPGA family have embraced the Komen For The Cure helping to both educate consumers and raise funds for research and outreach programs. Komen for the Cure is the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. Thanks to events like the Komen Race for the Cure, Komen has invested nearly $1 billion becoming the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world.
 In addition Callaway’s Golf Foundation has donated $1 million to the Women’s Cancer Programs as part of the Callaway Golf Foundation Women's Cancer Initiative. To further raise awareness and funds for ovarian cancer prevention, Callaway’s (a premier manufacturer of women’s golf equipment)golf foundation is sponsoring award-winning actress Eva Longoria to complete a public service campaign created by the Callaway Golf Foundation and Entertainment Industry Foundation. Ms. Longoria will appear in both TV and print public service announcements to encourage women to better understand their risks for the ovarian cancer disease and to ask for the assistance of women golfer’s everywhere in driving toward a cure for cancer.
 Beyond the activities of national women’s golf associations, individual professional women golfers are doing their part. LPGA Tour Veteran Val Skinner supports breast cancer awareness through her Val Skinner Foundation. After experiencing the death of a friend and fellow golfer, Heather Farr, Val developed an education program in coordination with the Susan G. Komen Foundation and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey to co-conceptualize the young women's initiative which involves a multifaceted approach to educating young women as well as healthcare providers regarding awareness, breast cancer risks and early breast cancer detection. In a recent LIFE EVENT sponsored by the Val Skinner Foundation, LPGA pros brought another $500,000 to the table in the fight against breast cancer in 2006, at the Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, NJ. This brings the total raised through the LIFE Event for breast cancer initiatives to $3.5 million. The announcement was made by LIFE founder and host, LPGA veteran Val Skinner.
 Joanna Whitley, another woman golf professional, is helping support the SHADE Foundation through her Birdies for SHADE program. Birdies for SHADE increases awareness about the skin cancer risk to the women golfers and the general community. SHADE seeks to increase our understanding of melanoma through the education of children and the community and promotes sun safety practices.
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