Funds at Work
Through Crucial Catch initiatives, the NFL has donated over $30 million, helping 1.8 million people and providing 762,000+ screenings across all NFL markets. These grants support follow-up care and improve early detection for breast, prostate, and other cancers, especially in underserved communities.
Crucial Catch is also addressing follow-up care for breast cancer patients through Links to Care Community Grants in select NFL team markets. These grants help community health centers and NFL team-affiliated hospitals provide timely follow-up treatment, improve appointment availability, scheduling, patient navigation, and tracking for completed screenings.
Last season, the Prostate Cancer Screening IMPACT ECHO initiative helped healthcare providers improve early detection and screening practices, reaching 40,000+ patients. Learn more
Local Impact
In 2025, Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute Institute received a $30,000 grant from Crucial Catch funding to expand breast health services for uninsured women through the LCI Cancer Outreach team.
These funds will support Project Pink, Atrium Health’s program for breast health education, screenings, and follow-up care for uninsured and underinsured women. Last year, Project Pink served 1,000 women. The grant will fund additional mammograms, follow-up care, transportation, and community outreach, directly helping local women in need.
2025 American Cancer Society Impact
201 nights of free lodging provided to residents of York County who needed to travel for treatment and stayed at a Hope Lodge.
Road to Recovery – 1,000 free rides in the Charlotte metro area which includes York County for patients who otherwise would not have been able to get to their treatment.
326 services were provided through ACS to residents of York County who contact the Cancer Information Center.
$140,000 in grants to the major Cancer Centers in our area to help fill in any gaps in securing transportation and lodging for patients, 118 services were provided to just York County patients through these grants.
Recent research has shown that for the first time colon cancer is the #1 cause of cancer death in men under 50 and #2 for women under 50. We are working with partners over the next 2 years investing $100,000 to create systematic changes in early detection of colon cancer in uninsured individuals.
In South Carolina the ACS is investing $2.64M in current research grants to identify better treatments or ways to prevent cancer.
Researchers at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, led by Dr. Ozgur Sahin, a professor and SmartState Endowed Chair in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, are spearheading vital research funded by a $3.45M American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant—a significant investment in South Carolina research. This work focuses on uncovering new targets for breast cancers that are resistant to standard therapies. Click here to learn more.