National Breast Cancer Coalition

Name

National Breast Cancer Coalition

Legal name

National Breast Cancer Coalition and Fund

Website

https://stopbreastcancer.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Health Advocacy

NAICS

Other Social Advocacy Organizations (813319), Social Advocacy Organizations (81331)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Health & Health Equity Organizations (BPAGACAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Global Immunization & Vaccine Access Alliances (HLAJAKAK), Community Health, Prevention & Health Education (BPAGACAC)

Keywords

• Breast cancer advocacy
• Cancer research funding
• Patient advocacy training
• Public policy advocacy
• Nonprofit health advocacy

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations and Membership: NBCC receives donations from individuals, including membership fees. The President's Council offers membership at $1,000+ annually with special benefits including direct communications from the President.
2. Event Fundraising: Revenue generated from signature events including Les Girls Cabaret and Women With Balls bowling events. Corporate sponsorships and team registrations for events provide additional fundraising opportunities.
3. Corporate and Foundation Grants: Support from foundations such as the National Philanthropic Trust for specific programs and general purposes. Corporate partners provide grants, donations, event sponsorships, and cause-related marketing partnerships.
4. Workplace Giving: Combined Federal Campaign #12193 allows employees to designate NBCC through workplace giving programs, including payroll deductions.
5. Planned and Legacy Gifts: Planned giving options including retirement plan beneficiary designations, estate planning bequests, charitable gift annuities, and charitable remainder trusts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit advocacy organization that mobilizes survivors, researchers, and policymakers to end breast cancer through grassroots advocacy, public policy campaigns, and collaborative research. Its core offerings include the Artemis Project® (advocate-led research initiative developing a preventive breast cancer vaccine), Project LEAD (science and advocacy training), the annual Advocate Leadership Summit, and legislative campaigns such as the Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act.

Product overview

National Breast Cancer Coalition is a non-profit advocacy organization that links hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of individuals to end breast cancer. The organization's offerings include the Artemis Project® (advocate-led research initiative for breast cancer prevention and metastasis prevention, including a preventive vaccine in Phase I trial), Project LEAD (advocacy training), the annual Advocate Leadership Summit (educational conference), Breast Cancer Deadline 2020® (research initiative), and policy advocacy programs including the Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act campaign. The organization also provides an Information Center with educational resources, and hosts fundraising events including Les Girls Cabaret and Women With Balls®.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Artemis Project®: An advocate-led collaboration of researchers and advocates developing research action plans to address primary prevention and prevention of metastasis in breast cancer.

Products and services

• Artemis Project® An advocate-led collaboration of researchers and advocates that develops and implements research action plans to address primary prevention and prevention of metastasis in breast cancer, including a preventive breast cancer vaccine in partnership with NCI PREVENT and Mayo Clinic, with Phase I clinical trials planned for 2025.
• Project LEAD NBCC's science and advocacy training program that prepares advocates to work alongside scientists, policy makers, and health care providers in research and policy decision-making.
• Advocate Leadership Summit Annual gathering of breast cancer advocates from across the country and around the world, featuring sessions on the latest scientific research, advocacy training, and presentations by researchers and public policy experts.
• Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act Campaign NBCC's legislative campaign to pass legislation that would waive the 24-month waiting period for Medicare and 5-month waiting period for Social Security Disability Insurance benefits for eligible individuals with metastatic breast cancer.
• Les Girls Cabaret NBCC's signature Hollywood fundraising event bringing together advocates, corporate sponsors, and supporters to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer advocacy.
• Women With Balls® NBCC's annual NYC bowling fundraising event with team registration options including Private lane (8 bowlers) at $3,600, Shared lane (4 bowlers) at $1,800, and Individual placement at $450. Sponsorships start at $2,500.
• Information Center Online resource center providing breast cancer facts, figures, myths and truths, legislative priorities, science education, and a video library for advocates and the public.
• NBCC Membership Program Annual membership program with a standard membership tier (donation-based) and a President's Council premium tier at $1,000+ annually that includes direct communications from the President, recognition in publications, and invitations to special events.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over $4 billion in federal breast cancer research funding secured through advocacy
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature3 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• National Cancer Institute (NCI) PREVENT ProgramcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNCI PREVENT is a peer-reviewed agent development program supporting the pre-clinical development of innovative interventions for cancer prevention. NBCC's Artemis Project Preventive Vaccine was awarded a contract with NCI PREVENT in 2020 to advance the preventive vaccine through preclinical development toward clinical trials.
• Mayo CliniccoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMayo Clinic, specifically Dr. Keith Knutson, Professor of Immunology, is conducting pre-clinical work on the Artemis Project preventive vaccine. NBCC partnered with Mayo Clinic for Phase I trial planned to launch in 2025.
• New York Genome CentermajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNBCC partnered with the New York Genome Center to develop DNA.Land, a large-scale resource to study breast cancer by collecting genomic data and breast cancer questionnaire responses from participants.
• Translational Research in OncologyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNBCC President Fran Visco serves on the board of directors of this international non-profit clinical trials consortium.
• Dr. Cyrus Ghajar - Fred Hutchinson Cancer CentermajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReceived Artemis Project seed grant to investigate adaptive immune recognition of dormant disseminated tumor cells, focusing on how to prevent metastasis.
• Dr. H. Kim Lyerly - Duke University School of MedicinemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMultiple Artemis Project collaborations including DCIS vaccine target research and dormant tumor cell studies.
• Dr. Gregory Hannon - Cold Spring Harbor LaboratorymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReceived $325,000 grant to evaluate the biology of human DCIS through next-generation sequencing for vaccine target identification.
• George Washington UniversitymajorTechnology or IntegrationNBCC partnered with GW's Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics division and Center for Biomedical Informatics to host DNA.Land data on GW's cloud-based platform (GW-FEAST).

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship: A patient-led cancer advocacy organization focused on policy and survivorship issues. Directly comparable to NBCC as a cancer-focused, survivor-driven policy advocacy nonprofit operating at the federal level.
• Susan G. Komen: The largest breast cancer-focused nonprofit in the U.S., also funding research, advocacy, and patient support. Directly comparable to NBCC in mission and constituency, though Komen operates at much larger scale with both research funding and direct service programs.
• Living Beyond Breast Cancer: A breast cancer-focused nonprofit supporting patients through education, resources, and community. Directly comparable as a smaller breast cancer advocacy nonprofit with overlapping audience but with more direct-service programming.
• Prevent Cancer Foundation: A national nonprofit focused on cancer prevention and early detection through research, education, and advocacy. NBCC's Artemis Project prevention focus and federal policy engagement position it as a strong direct peer.
• Breast Cancer Action: A breast cancer-focused advocacy nonprofit with a similar patient-advocacy and policy reform mission. Directly comparable as a smaller, advocacy-led breast cancer organization with strong accountability positioning.

Regional players

• National Ovarian Cancer Coalition: A cancer-specific nonprofit focused on ovarian cancer advocacy, awareness, and research. Adjacent comparable as another leading women's cancer coalition, useful as a model of single-disease coalition organizing but operating in a different cancer category.

Emerging players

• Tigerlily Foundation: A breast cancer-focused nonprofit addressing disparities, particularly for Black women (NBCC has cited the 40% mortality gap among Black women). Comparable as a smaller, advocacy and equity-focused peer organization with overlap on disparities and policy.
• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR): A professional scientific organization that funds cancer research and advocates for federal research funding. AACR awarded Fran Visco its Outstanding Achievement Award; comparable as a research-advocacy organization but research-led rather than survivor-led.

Broad incumbents

• Stand Up To Cancer: A high-profile cancer research fundraising collaborative focused on accelerating cancer research. Comparable as a research-advocacy nonprofit leveraging celebrity and media engagement, but operates with different funding mechanisms (translational research teams).
• American Cancer Society: The largest and most established U.S. cancer nonprofit with broad research, advocacy, and patient services across all cancer types. Comparable as the dominant incumbent in cancer advocacy, though at materially larger scale and with a broader non-breast-cancer mandate.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/NBCCStopBC
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCGHgUp6cz1GPb786LxKVJZw
• Facebookfacebook.com/TheNationalBreastCancerCoalition
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/national-breast-cancer-coalition
• Instagraminstagram.com/nationalbreastcancercoalition

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Profiles5 records

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