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Adding to its already sterling list of hospital partnerships, A Silver Lining Foundation (ASLF) recently announced its new partnership with The Women’s Center at Rockford Health System. After partnering with six hospitals in the last six years, teaming up with The Women’s Center brings the number to seven and also awareness and help to the Rockford area.
The Chicago-based foundation brings its Buy a Mom a Mammogram program to the hospital, a program that funds cost free mammograms and diagnostic follow up testing to those who are not financially able to get screened for a mammogram on their own. ASLF will also work with the Rockford Memorial Development Foundation to fund the free mammogram program, and help expand and extend the program that has been a part of the Rockford Health System since 2006.
ASLF, launched in 2002 by Dr. Sandy Goldberg, has provided over 450,000 people throughout the Chicagoland area with cancer resource information, treatment options and support services. Their mission is to provide every person, no matter their socioeconomic status, with quality access to breast cancer information, screenings and diagnosis.
Watch Dr. Sandy's tv interview on NBC Rockford WREX 13 about mammograms for uninsured women here.
A Silver Lining Foundation (ASLF) has been awarded a $20,000.00 grant to support its Buy A Mom A Mammogram Program. This, the fourth consecutive grant from The PrivateBank will continue to support ASLF’s mission to ensure that socioeconomic status does not affect an individual’s ability to obtain information, timely cancer screening and diagnosis.
Dr. Sandy Goldberg launched ASLF in 2002 and the Buy A Mom A Mammogram program in mid 2006. So far, over 6,000 women have received information about and were given access to a cost free screening mammogram and diagnostic evaluation through the program. Of those women, 99 percent are uninsured. Generous grants and donations such as the one provided by The PrivateBank allow the Buy A Mom A Mammogram to proliferate. Affordable healthcare is a challenge as it continues to slip out of reach, and ASLF works actively to provide answers and solutions regarding access to mammography and diagnostic evaluation.
The PrivateBank’s mission is to provide clients a comprehensive suite of personal and commercial banking, treasury management, investment products, capital markets, private banking and wealth management. Services are always delivered in the same way: by building strong relationships with clients. The PrivateBank conveniently offers 34 offices, serving: greater Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and St. Louis metropolitan areas.
About A Silver Lining FoundationFounder and Chairman Sandy Goldberg created A Silver Lining Foundation in 2002 to ensure that socioeconomic status never affects an individual's ability to obtain information, timely cancer screenings and/or diagnosis. The mission of ASLF is to provide dignified, respectful and equal access to quality breast cancer education and services for all, by creating meaningful partnerships with community, advocacy and healthcare organizations. For more information visit www.asilverliningfoundation.org or call 312-345-1322. Find them on Twitter @ASLF2002 and on Facebook at “A Silver Lining Foundation.”
It may not be the most glamorous holiday present, but it’s one of the most important there can be for a woman — the gift of a mammogram.
That’s why I’m eating up the fact that 90 uninsured and underinsured women will be getting just that, thanks to the Mag Mile-based Garrett Popcorn family. Garrett donated $12,000 from sales of their October pink tin fundraiser to Dr. Sandy Goldberg’s A Silver Lining Foundation, a nonprofit ensuring access and treatment options to underserved people affected by cancer.
Read the Full Article here‘Tis the season for giving, and Garrett Popcorn Shops have just given 90 women the gift of a potentially lifesaving test. On Monday, December 12th, the Chicago favorite handed A Silver Lining Foundation (ASLF) an astounding $12,000 check from its October pink tin fundraiser.
Throughout Breast Cancer Awareness month Garrett pledged to donate a percentage of sales of every pink striped tin sold to A Silver Lining Foundation. As anyone who has passed a Garrett storefront and seen the winding line of eager locals and tourists alike knows, this fundraiser was destined for success. The donation will benefit ASLF’s Buy Mom a Mammogram program that provides uninsured or underinsured women with free mammogram testing. Thanks to the generosity of Garrett Popcorn Shops and their customers enough money was raised to fund 90 mammograms
Dr. Sandy Goldberg and Megan Chody, Director of Community Outreach, Garrett Popcorn Shops
Dr. Sandy Goldberg and Megan Chody, Director of Community Outreach, Garrett Popcorn Shops with Mike Callaghan Manager of Garrett Popcorn Shop, 27 W. Jackson, where the check presentation was held.
Silver Lining Foundation’s 7th Annual A Sterling Event took place on Saturday, October 1 at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. The $175,000 raised will be used to support the three different programs within A Silver Lining. The foundation’s mission is to provide people with quality breast cancer information, screenings and diagnosis.
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Chicago IL
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All proceeds will go to A Silver Lining Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to ensuring access and treatment options to underserved individuals affected by cancer.
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Dr. Sandy Goldberg at Tapas Valencia on South State with Tapas Valencia manager Jose Rodriguez and Alderman Bob Fioretti feeding over 500 people this Thanksgiving.
A lot of times young women are not aware of the importance of breast cancer or ignored by their own families that don’t talk about it. Well, this was not the case for students at Eisenhower High School in Blue Island. On November 8th, over 50 juniors and senior girls attended presentations on breast health education and breast self-examination from Dr. Sandy Goldberg, NBC 5 Nutrition Contributor and Founder and Director of A Silver Lining Foundation (ASLF) and Juancetta Smith, active leader of ASLF.
During the presentations, Eisenhower students were given breast models to find lumps on each breast and learn how to do a breast self exam. “In both groups, the girls probably thought it was a little awkward but as we kept rolling along, the students were becoming much more engaged as time went on and certainly when they felt the breast models,” said Dr. Goldberg.
Dr. Goldberg who is also a breast cancer survivor shared that by maintaining good breast health is easy by following the steps:
“Cancer is not a life sentence because my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 36-years-old and lived 30 years after that and since then I’ve been very aware of my health my entire life,” said Smith. Women need to be their own advocate and find who can help you. “We like what we’ve done here for the young women that we presented here at Eisenhower is to share basic information but most importantly the aspect of what an individual can do that may lower the risks factors in terms of the development of breast cancer and stress the importance of the role of these young women not only for their future health but also for their future families health and communities,” concluded Dr. Goldberg.
If you know someone that needs help and has not been checked out because they have no insurance, contact ASLF at (312) 345-1322. If women are diagnosed with breast cancer, ASLF and with the partnership of their hospitals will make sure to get women into funded programs. ASLF will help fund screening mammograms, diagnostics, ultrasounds and biopsies, if need be. For more information about ASLF, asilverliningfoundation.org.
Throughout Dr. Sandy Goldberg’s childhood in sleepy Magnolia, Ark., her immigrant parents would stop speaking English and switch to Russian or Yiddish when discussing matters they didn’t want their two daughters to hear. “Of course, we understood perfectly well what they were saying,” Dr. Sandy said. At the end of each month, the family sat at the table while Dr. Sandy’s father paid the bills and her mother explained why some seemed too high...
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WGNtv.com- Brest Cancer AwarenessYvonne Davila supported friends who were dealing with breast cancer, used checks decorated with pink ribbons and walked in several events to raise money for breast cancer research. But two years ago, when Davila found a lump in her own breast, she was without health insurance and afraid to schedule a checkup because she worried a cancer diagnosis would financially ruin her. Then the Chicago woman heard Sandy Goldberg speak at a breast cancer walk...
Read the Full Article herePink used to be favored for frilly bed covers, Sunday dresses, and satin hair bows. Now, it is the color of breast cancer awareness. Because October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, pink will be everywhere. As a breast cancer survivor, I can understand how the color can be hard on people who are battling other forms of cancer.
Read the Full Article hereWith National Breast Cancer Awareness Month upon us in October, I’m mindful again this year of encouraging news...
Read the Full Article hereChicago - En Illinois residen más de 300,000 mujeres mayores de 40 años sin seguro médico, las cuales son elegibles para recibir mamografías gratis bajo el programa de cáncer de seno del estado. No obstante, dicho programa sólo tiene dinero para financiar mamografías para 40,000 mujeres.
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"UIC believed in us, the Evelyn Goldberg Center and the
free mammography program when nobody else did.
Most importantly, they treat our ladies with dignity and respect."
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