Programs

Think Pink Day at Schreiber High School in Port Washington

Schreiber High School celebrates breast cancer awareness month with ribbons, buttons, tattoos, baked goods and even pink mohawks.

Maurer Foundation breast cancer education in Garden City, Long Island

Maurer Foundation Presents Breast Health Program At Garden City High School

The Garden City High School senior girls attended the annual Women’s Health Awareness Program on March 31 in the Garden City High School Library.

Chalkboard for breast health education in-school seminars

Maurer Foundation Raises Breast Cancer Awareness at Stuyvesant High School

A student’s view of one our cancer-prevention breast health programs, published in The Spectator, the Stuyvesant High School newspaper.

Girl Scouts

Skits About Breast Health Awareness Help Girl Scouts Teach Their Community

With the help of a Maurer Foundation Program Educator, 8 Girl Scouts presented breast cancer myths, risk factors and early detection methods.

Foundation Trains Students to Educate Each Other About Breast Health

Who says students can’t be teachers? At the Peer Education Program at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, NY, students are the only teachers. Peer Education Programs, a unique initiative of the Maurer Foundation, are student-run clubs, led by a school staff member that help students teach breast health education to their peers. The Foundation [...]

Corporate Wellness

We have been very busy spreading the word about our Corporate Wellness Program.  As we network, more and more executives are realizing the important part that wellness and healthy lifestyle choices makes in lowering your risk of breast cancer.  Our 45 minute program has been well received at companies like Capital One and Boehringer Ingelheim. [...]

Reaching People Through Our Breast Health Programs

During our breast health seminars, people sometimes confide in us about their personal stories, mostly related to breast cancer, and sometimes not. All these people’s stories make us feel we are really reaching people with our message.

Diversity in Education, and the importance of Mammography, CBE and BSE

Being able to educate people of all ages and ethnicities about breast health is very rewarding. This week, I went from presenting to ten 40-50 year old Caucasian and African American women at YWCA of NYC, to one hundred Asian high school students at Lower East Side Prep High School. People of all ages and [...]

Girls learning about breast cancer

Junior Breast Health Educators at Syosset High School

I had the opportunity to train about 45 students at Syosset High School to become Junior Breast Health Educators through the Maurer Foundation’s BBS (Being Breast Smart) program.

Oh the Adventures of a Program Educator!

We are nearing the end of Breast Cancer Awareness month and we’ve been extremely busy!  Besides a very successful fundraising event at Brother Jimmy’s BBQ on October 22nd, we’ve been doing tons of programs. I was looking for the Catholic Daughter of America on Monday night, and I stumbled into a Narcotics Anonymous meeting by [...]