Letter: Recent gifts help Promise Fund help Palm Beach community
Nancy Brinker
April 24, 2022
Special to the Daily News
Momentum is building to ensure all women in Palm Beach County have access to life-saving health care, but we have more work to do — work we’d like to tell you about, work that we hope you’ll consider joining us in doing.
Promise Fund of Florida has been helping women throughout South Florida overcome financial and cultural barriers to improve health equity, including a reduction in deaths from cervical and breast cancers. We are now an enormous step closer to achieving our vision. Thanks to $5.5 million in recent gifts, we can now significantly improve access to care for women of color and women with limited resources and English proficiency and low health literacy.
We must thank medical technology leader Hologic for its partnership and support. We are also so grateful to the Florida Legislature and our major donors for so many significant and timely contributions. These gifts put us two years ahead of our goal and signify just how much this urgent need resonates with those in a position to help.
April is National Minority Health Month, a time to raise awareness about health disparities and encourage action through early detection and education. And in February, President Biden announced a reignition of the Cancer Moonshot with new goals: to reduce the death rate from cancer by at least 50 percent over the next 25 years and improve the experience of people and their families living with and surviving cancer.
The Promise Fund is now better equipped to support all uninsured and underinsured women through early detection and treatment. What continues to drive us are the countless stories of low-income mothers, aunts and grandmothers who need our services — right here in this community.
With these funds, we will bolster outreach in Palm Beach County through additional patient navigators who can facilitate translation, transportation and other logistics needed to access healthcare. This support will serve patients who come to free medical clinics, community-based clinics and federally qualified health-care centers like FoundCare in West Palm Beach, where Promise Fund of Florida helped to establish a women’s health center.
To date, we and our partners have supported more than 16,000 women in navigating the complexities of the health-care system, but there are many more women left to serve. We hope you will help us do that. Learn how you can join our mission at promisefundofflorida.org.
Nancy Brinker
Founder of the Promise Fund of Florida