Can you believe Carrie's TOUCH turned 18 last year?
18 years serving the community, and we are as enthusiastic today about enhancing the breast cancer experience for Black women as we were when we began. We continue to take bold, innovative, and progressive steps to address the 41 percent mortality disparity between Black women with breast cancer and White women with breast cancer.
This disparity has had a devastating impact on the mental and emotional well-being of Black women, their families, and their communities. In the words of Fannie Lou Hamer, “We are sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
Carrie's TOUCH is built on a strong foundation. Our tribe represents a proud legacy, working toward for a sustainable future.
As we look to the next twenty years, we are reimagining not only who we are, but how changing the narrative about Black women.
We know that Black women can and do live well. This includes breast cancer survivors.
Every donations supports the organization in forging a future where Black, Indigenous, and People of Color are no longer disproportionately impacted.
Let’s rewrite the narrative to ensure that equity, health, and hope are realities for all.
Our mission: To humanize the Black woman and her experience with breast cancer
Our vision: To Save More Black Women
Whether or not you're new to the Carrie's TOUCH family, it is no secret that Black women are dying of breast cancer at a 41% higher rate than White women. What you may not know is this statistic hasn't changed in over 20 years. It's time to ask ourselves why.
At Carrie's TOUCH, we humanize the Black woman and her experience with breast cancer through survivor support, research, awareness and education, advocacy, and technology.
We know that Black women are more likely to have poorer quality-of-life outcomes after a diagnosis of breast cancer. So, our first priority has always been to serve our women.
Since BDOG 2020, the focus of Carrie's TOUCH's Big Day of Giving fundraising efforts is to raise funds for our Survivor Support and Rapid Response programs. Funds raised enable us to offer resources for mental and emotional wellbeing, and to address basic needs such as housing, food, transportation, medical co-pays, utilities, and more.
We can't do this alone. It takes a village to support those in need. Our women need us, and we need you. It is time to end the 41%. Together we can do this.
Call To Action: We have many opportunities to improve the quality of life for Black women, and with each life that we enhance, we take another step toward addressing this disparity. We have a long road ahead of us to end the 41%, but every donation to Carrie’s TOUCH helps us help another woman. We need you.
Organization name
Carrie's TOUCH, Inc.
2006
Tax id (EIN)
30-0394368
Mission Category
Human Services
Operating Budget
$500,001-$1 million
Organization Need
Funding: Unrestricted, Funding: Program
Demographics Served
Black/African American, Women/Female-identifying
BIPOC Leadership
Both the Executive Director & Board Chair
Local Counties Served
Sacramento
Address
2324 L Street Ste. 310Headquarters
5960 S. Land Park Dr #225Sacramento, CA, US