The Avon Safety Net Program supports institutions and organizations that have traditionally cared for uninsured, at-risk, low-income, and minority patients to enable medically underserved women and men to access post-screening diagnostics and care. Application deadlines are based on your organization's geographic location. Please see chart below for regions / dates.

The emphasis of this initiative is to provide hospitals and health care centers with patient navigation programs, partial equipment support and other personnel and infrastructure support that will enhance their breast cancer care services to the medically underserved.  The Foundation does not pay for the reimbursement of direct costs of care.  Applicants may request up to $125,000 total costs per year, for up to two years (thus, a maximum total grant of up to $250,000 total costs over two years).

• The Avon Foundation for Women utilizes a paperless application and grants management system.
• As in prior years, there is a two-stage process requiring all applicants to first submit a Letter of Intent (LOI). Following LOI review, a small subset of applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal.
• The 2012 Safety Net Letter of Intent Form can be accessed by following the link at the bottom of this section. Clicking the link will bring you to the log-in page for a new LOI Form. Here you will either need to create a new account (if you have not previously used the system) or use your existing log-in information.
• If you are creating a new account, it is imperative that you use your functional work e-mail address as your user id, as this is the email address the system will use to communicate with you about your application.

Geographic region is generally defined as the area within a 100-mile radius of the noted city.

Geographic Region

Letter-of-Intent Due Date

Invited Full Proposals Due Date*

Funding Decisions Disseminated by

Boston, MA
Washington, DC

January 9, 2012

February 3, 2012*

March 15, 2012

Chicago, IL
Denver-Rocky Mtns, CO
San Francisco, CA

February 3, 2012

March 9, 2012*

May 18, 2012

Los Angeles-Santa Barbara, CA

April 16, 2012

May 22, 2012*

July 27, 2012

New York, NY
Charlotte, NC

June 22, 2012

July 27, 2012*

September 28, 2012

National - All other cities/ regions in U.S.
Houston, TX (2013 Funding)