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Between Us Newsletter
Winter 2005
Happy New Year Everyone!
We've had another exciting year and wanted to reach out to you now that everyone is settling back into desks for the next push of work. When you have a moment, check out updates on our website - http//:www.betweenus.org - We've got lots of new photos and news.
Highlights in this newsletter include:
Thanks to current sponsors/grants!
* Thank you to the Rasmuson Foundation of Alaska for a Fellowship for Mary Katzke to continue her documentary work
* Alaska Run for Women - our faithful supporters- this time for a grant to provide the next 325 breast cancer patients in Alaska .
* WalMart of Alaska for underwriting our toll free number
* Alaska State Council for the Arts for a grant to travel to New York City 's Independent Feature Project with our WIP Gwen's Story: Crazy Like me
* Shippers- Northern Air Cargo , Arctic Circle , and Alaska Central Express who have continued to assist us in reaching rural Alaska with our first aid kits and photography exhibit on breast cancer awareness
* Garden Kids Organic Cottons for dressing our 4 year olds
* Cheekaboo for dressing our four year old girls
Updates on our film,
Beyond Flowers:
What to Say and Do When Someone Your Know is Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
Now the recipient of Best Health Video - Long Format from the DV Awards out of Park City Utah, Beyond Flowers is enjoying a second life in public libraries across America. Distributors include the AV Café, Midwest Tape, and Intructional Video as well as in Canada via Library Bound.
Improvements in current rounds of kits: both videos now in DVD format, the new gorgeous Beyond Flowers handbook and vinyl bookmarks.
Congratulations to new providers:
* Pittsburgh Library System
* Salem Hospital Center for Outpatient Medicine
* Walla Walla Clinic
* Silverton Hospital Breast Cancer Support Group
* Magic Valley Regional Medical Center
Thanks to returning providers:
* Alaska Run for Women for the entire state of Alaska
* Port Huron Hospital of Port Huron Michigan
* Legacy Cancer Services, Portland Oregon
* South Shore Women's Health Care in St. Joseph MI
* New Brunswick 's Parkview Medical Center
* Gerald Champion Regional Hospital of Alamagordo
* Southern Maine Breast and Cervical Health Program
* St. Charles Medical Center/Bend OR
* Gulf Breeze Hospital / Florida
Alaskans in Pink Photo Exhibit : Now seeking a permanent home!
This exhibit honors 12 people making a difference on the breast cancer scene with artistic portraiture by our best photographers and has traveled around the state since May, 2003. We are now seeking someone - a sponsor- to adopt it - call for details: 907-677-7970
Gwen's Story: Crazy Like Me
Our WIP (work in progress) about a young Alaskan girl who was the victim of child abuse by her mentally ill mother in 1980 was invited to New York 's Independent Film Project and Market last September. Co-producers Mary Katzke and Deb Schildt traded in their down jackets and sorrels for suits and heels, and lived to tell about it! Meetings with HBO, PBS, 7 th Art Releasing, and others yielded blisters on all four feet. Lots of interest in this film- now we're back in the field shooting the dramatic conclusion.
Beat the Odds: Knowing the Early Warning Signs of Heart Disease Can Save Your Life
Did you know that heart disease is the number one killer of women? And that heart disease takes more women's lives each year than all forms of cancer combined? We didn't either, but thanks to working with Providence Alaska 's Women's Heart Advantage Program, we now have a great short DVD for women to learn about the early warning signs of heart disease. Coming soon to a mailbox near you!
And a special thanks to the 20+ volunteers who showed up to help with our last assembly in November- we packed 350 kits in record time- thanks to you.
On our New Year's wish list:
SPACE - would love to have a corporation donate about 1000 square feet of space for us to keep all our supplies and to allow us to assemble our kits on a regular basis- as it is we have to line up space each time we need to assemble more than a dozen kits at a time. Help us by spreading the word- we are nonprofit 501©3 and will be a tax deduction.
Coming Up: Bare Bones Film Festival in Muskogee , Oklahoma
Director Mary Katzke's dramatic film, Pen Pals, will be featured in April at this film festival- Congratulations!
OUR DREAMS - we have proposals pending for:
- Gwen's Story: Crazy Like Me
- 3 Part DVD Set on Proactive Survivors of Breast Cancer
- Power:The Struggle for Oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- More at Four- post production
And of course, we continue to search for just the right corporate sponsor so we can provide thousands and thousands of our needed breast cancer support products across the country. Just in case you happen to know that special company.or special individual.
In the interim, we keep packing and shipping, editing and duplicating, writing our proposals and traveling when we can.
"Meaningful work is the key to health and happiness."
-Someone Wise
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