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* Announcement *      2008 CCN Community Grants Program

The Carolina Community Network to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities(CCN)is pleased to announce a call for community grant proposals that focus on reducing cancer health disparities through the development of collaborative research projects or educational activities. The CCN intends to competitively award $40,000 in community grants, with budgets ranging from $500 to $10,000.

Application Deadline: March 17, 2008 by 5:00pm

For more information, please click on the following links:
Request for Applications
Instructions
Application


The Carolina Community Network

The Carolina Community Network (CCN) is a regional cancer network developed to reduce prostate, breast and colorectal cancer disparities among adult African Americans in North Carolina.

The CCN includes five resource cores based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and partners in the central and eastern regions of the state, who work together to increase the success of cancer prevention and treatment activities, increase the number of community members actively involved in clinical trials and other forms of research, and strengthen the community's knowledge of cancer risks and prevention.

The goal of the CCN is to combine the strengths of the community with resources and research expertise at UNC to reduce cancer disparities through education, research and training.
  Did you know ... ?

  • Oral cancer is the 10th most common cancer in men and 14th most common in women. (More ...)

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    African-American women show higher age-adjusted breast cancer mortality rates than white women. (More ...)

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    The prostate cancer rate is the highest for African Americans in the U.S. For African Americans, mortality rates due to prostate cancer is higher than white men. (More ...)


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The Carolina Community Network is supported by the National Cancer Institute Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities through its Community Networks Program, U01 CA114629