CBCRP Grantmaking Philosophy
CBCRP routinely reviews our mission and revises programmatic goals to ensure that funding opportunities we develop contribute to advancing meaningf.
Our Mission
The mission of the California Breast Cancer Research Program is to eliminate the burden of breast cancer in California through innovation in research, communication, and community partnered initiatives focused on prevention, treatment, and survivorship.
CBCRP Programmatic Goals
California Specific: Fund research that utilizes resources particular to California and/or addresses a breast cancer need that is specific but not necessarily unique to the burden of breast cancer in California.
Capacity-building: Fund research that helps recruit, retain, develop, and remove barriers for California-based investigators who engage in research and training that advances CBCRP initiatives.
Collaboration: Fund research that uses multi-disciplinary approaches and advances close collaborations among California scientists, clinicians, advocates, community members, patients, survivors, and others.
Disparities and Underserved: Fund research that specifically addresses disparities, and the needs of California’s underserved populations who bear a disproportionately high burden of breast cancer or have disproportionate exposures or conditions linked to breast cancer.
Innovation: Fund research (e.g., novel treatments, strategies, paradigms, technologies, applications in new populations and contexts; high-risk, high reward) that brings new ideas and new paths forward that address the CBCRP’s mission.
Non-Duplicative: Fund research that complements, builds on, and/or feeds into, but is not duplicative of other funded research.
Policy: Fund research and evaluation that will have policy implications that support the CBCRP’s mission for breast cancer in California.
Public Health Outcomes: Fund research that will improve public health outcomes (e.g., preventing breast cancer, identifying environmental links to breast cancer, detection of breast cancer, effective treatments, quality of life, and survivorship) in California’s diverse communities.
Responsive: Fund research that is responsive to the CBCRP’s breast cancer research needs, opportunities, and expectations as identified by scientists and the public in California.
Translation and Dissemination: Fund research that is on a critical path for practical application and leads to more effective solutions (e.g. products, technologies, interventions, policies) and their delivery to Californians.