The Avon Foundation for Women has announced third-quarter grants totaling nearly $5 million in support of twenty-eight breast cancer organizations and sixty-four domestic violence organizations in the United States.

Continuing its support for scientific research into the causes, prevention, and detection of breast cancer, the foundation awarded nearly $3.4 million to help fund new preventive strategies and treatments for breast cancer. Recipients include the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope in Duarte, California; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles; the Center for Advancing Innovation in Leesburg, Virginia; the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation in Santa Monica, California; Stanford University; Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City; San Francisco General Hospital Foundation; the UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation in Los Angeles; the University of California at Berkeley; and Zero Breast Cancer in San Rafael, California.

Through its Avon Safety Net initiative, the foundation awarded more than $810,000 in support of outreach efforts focused on nutrition, education, and screening and to improve access to health care for uninsured, at-risk, low-income, and minority populations. Recipients include Alameda County Medical Center/Alameda County Health Care Foundation in Oakland; the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara; Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic in Oakland; the Council of Community Clinics in San Diego; Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center in Baltimore; the Northridge Hospital Foundation in Northridge, California; Project Angel Food in Los Angeles; and the Breast Cancer Resource Center of Santa Barbara.

In addition, the foundation awarded $240,000 to support advanced clinical training for the second cohort of Avon Global Breast Cancer Clinical Scholars and, through its Speak Out Against Domestic Violence initiative, $500,000 to sixty-four domestic violence organizations in twenty states and Puerto Rico in support of direct services for victims of domestic violence and their families.