Joining FORCEs Conference Scholarships

FORCE provides a limited number of scholarships to those individuals who would most benefit from the information and could not otherwise attend the conference without financial support.

Click here to learn more about the scholarship application process and to apply for a scholarship. Scholarship awardees will be selected and notified by August 15.

Please note the below before applying:

• Both full (travel, registration and hotel) and partial scholarships are available. However, only a very limited number of full scholarships will be available.
• Please allow us to bring as many people as possible and only apply for a scholarship if you have financial need.
• Scholarship recipients are chosen based on financial need, the impact that the information gained at the conference will have on health care decisions, and interest and ability to disseminate the information learned back to the community.

If you wish to donate to our conference scholarship fund, please follow the links on the right side of this page. Below are stories from some of our past scholarship recipients and the impact that attending the conference had on their lives and others in the community. Generous support for a number of scholarships has been received from the Brenda L. Caplan Memorial Scholarship Fund and the Linda Pedraza Scholarship Fund.

Scholarship recipients and their stories

Below are stories from some of our past scholarship recipients and the impact that attending the conference had on their lives and others in the community.

I am a survivor of stage IV breast cancer and I live in a predominantly African-American, low income neighborhood. It is often hard for women here to get access to proper care and information. I have shared the information that I learned at the conference with other high-risk members in my local community. Read more.		Despite seeing the effects of cancer up close, I wasn't fully convinced of its power. Although surgery was an option I had considered, my fear led to inaction. Read more.		While pregnant, I was diagnosed with cancer and treated with chemotherapy. Our unborn child was diagnosed with two birth defects. Then I tested positive for a BRCA1 mutation. If not for a scholarship, people like me would be unable to gain critical knowledge. Thank you, donors, for the knowledge your funding gave us. Read more.

Thank you for the tremendous job you and your team at FORCE do and for hosting my sister and I this past weekend. We are back home and tomorrow night we will host our first meeting to share with our people all that we have learned. Read more.		"LUVN LFE". My husband and I were on the way to the hospital when we saw the words on the license plate of the car in front of us. Those words became my spiritual motto on the morning of June 20, 2007. That was the day of my prophylactic bilateral mastectomies. Read more.

 

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