Outreach and Education Award

The Outreach and Education Award is presented to an individual person or an organization in the communications industry that demonstrated leadership in promoting awareness of breast health (through the “power of the press”) in Maine by:

• Maintaining or improving awareness of an existing program or project
• Creating or implementing a new program or project to increase awareness of breast cancer/breast health

Those eligible include:

• Media outlets (TV, radio stations and print outlets)
• Organizations (community-based, non-profits, healthy community coalitions)
• Advertising, marketing, public relations firms

Previous Winners:

2002 Winner:
WCSH/WLBZ TV “Buddy-to-Buddy Program”
2003 Winner:
WJBQ Radio Q97.9 “Bras Across the Bridge”
2004 Winner:
Jerry Robinov for Portraits of Courage, Voices of Hope books
2005 Winner:
American Cancer Society, Maine Chapter
2006 Winner:
Anne Murray Paige for “The Breast Cancer Diaries”
2007 Winners:
Dr. Greg D'Augustine, Medical Director
Kathryn Varney
Central Maine Medical Center