An Alaskan breast cancer center that caters to women unable to afford mammograms was handed a healthy $300,000 donation this week, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.
The sum was a gift from the Rasmuson Foundation—the state’s largest charitable contributor–as part of an $8.6 million initiative to improve Alaskans’ quality of life.
“This fits that need to a T,” foundation board member Rebecca Brice Henderson told the News-Miner.
The Breast Cancer Detection Center has been up and running since 1976, and CEO Odette Butler told the News-Miner the new money will be put toward renovations to make the building less “grandma’s house” and “more Zen-ful.”
“It will help us bring in people who normally wouldn’t come,” she said.
The center, which also runs a mobile mammography unit, is based in Fairbanks and has been undergoing aesthetic renovations since 2016. Other major donations have come from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust and Murkowski Waterfall Foundation.
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