Healthy Breast Program and the MammAlive Foundation Organizational Structure
1) The Healthy Breast Program is a Business
The Healthy Breast Program was created by Sat Dharam Kaur ND in an effort to reduce risk of breast cancer or its recurrence in women globally. It began as a series of workshops on breast health taught by Sat Dharam Kaur in 1990, and was then elaborated in her books, A Call to Women, published in 2000, and The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to Breast Cancer, published in 2003.
The Healthy Breast Program is a business owned and managed by Sat Dharam Kaur. The purpose of the business is to promote the Healthy Breast Program through teaching workshops, and creating Healthy Breast Educators who can spread the program.
The Healthy Breast Program is an intensive twelve-part learning program designed to educate women and girls in strategies to reduce the risk of breast cancer and to assist recovery from the disease using natural therapies in conjunction with conventional diagnostic and treatment options. The Healthy Breast Program encompasses lifestyle, diet, nutritional therapies, breathing practices, kundalini yoga, meditation, exercise and psychospiritual work.
The Healthy Breast Program is comprised of three learning streams, each consisting of 12 modules: 1) the Healthy Breast Foundations program; 2) the Healthy Breast Yoga Program and; 3) the Healthy Breast Practitioner Program.
2) The MammAlive Foundation is a Non-Profit Organization
The MammAlive Foundation is managed primarily by a volunteer board of directors, regional coordinators and healthy breast educators who are passionate about educating women how to care for their breasts to reduce cancer risk. We believe that guidance, education and support can help reduce the breast cancer risk, accelerate healing and improve wellbeing.
The mission of the MammAlive Foundation is to educate and empower women globally to make healthy dietary and lifestyle changes, enhance understanding of their bodies, and increase awareness of the impact of the environment on their health, to reduce risk of breast cancer now and in future generations.
We envision that our efforts will decrease the rising global incidence of breast cancer.
Through research, education and outreach, the goals of the MammAlive Foundation are to:
- provide access to breast health education for all women, in the form of public talks, pamphlets, a free monthly Ezine, workshops, online videos and resources, educational packages for high schools, conferences, courses, retreats, and follow-up support groups
- support and co-ordinate a global association of Healthy Breast Educators and Healthy Breast Advocates who are active in their communities in sharing strategies to reduce the risk of breast cancer
- partner with all levels of government as well as organizations and institutions to develop and implement a strategy to reduce breast cancer incidence locally and globally
- access and oversee funding to subsidize women who could not otherwise afford to receive these services
- make accessible a free database of resources, including body care and food recipes; current research on breast health issues; position papers on key subject matter areas; and access to a monthly Ezine
- co-ordinate a collection of inspiring and instructive women’s personal stories about their breast cancer journey
- bring awareness to environmental links to breast cancer and participate in environmental activism to reduce risk of breast cancer
1) Function and activities of the Healthy Breast Program Corporation (a business owned and operated by Sat Dharam Kaur and her staff). Currently Sat Dharam Kaur is the sole shareholder, director and officer of this business.
| Function | How |
| Develops Healthy Breast Program products and branding, promotes and markets them | Has a clear business plan of how to expand the HB program, with target dates, and a clear marketing plan
Has a process for evaluating success in meeting annual goals Creates clear structure for affiliate program |
| Certifies HB educators
Assigning people who qualify as trainers |
Has a simple and efficient process for certifying educators, with clear dates and costs. Costs pay for person to review Home Practice material and video, file it, issue certificate, add to HB website and communicate with MammAlive Assoc. MammAlive Foundation secretary to confirm meeting attendance and that membership requirements have been met (1-5 hours work each month for Foundation goals). |
| Licenses HB Educators annually with permission to use the HBP. | License renewal includes listing on HB website and ability to use the program materials and continue as an affiliate
Educators lose their right to teach the program to others if they do not relicense annually |
| Healthy Breast Program develops and maintains HBP website and lists educators and their courses | Draws traffic to site with a blog
Connects to licensed educators’ sites through this site Creates template for educator’s sites |
| Establishes guidelines for Educators on how to market the HB program; provides templates, promotional letter | Clear guidelines on branding and use of promotional materials are provided.
Creates standardized intro workshops. |
| Issues authorization to teach the HBP each time, and tracks participants.
Partners with regional co-ordinators to do this outside of Canada. |
Educators must fill out an application to host a Healthy Breast Foundations or Healthy Breast Yoga Program, receive approval and receive access to the latest version of the manual, and submit list of participants |
| Establishes guidelines for research methodology on the program | Writes research proposal and partners with institution’s ethics review board.
Finds research advisors to help design scientific study Instructs Healthy Breast Educators in how to administer research instruments Works with MammAlive Foundation to fund and carry out research on the program’s efficacy |
| Update manual and powerpoints annually
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Sat Dharam will update manual and powerpoints annually each December with new research. New manual and powerpoints available by Jan 15 annually.
Regional coordinators will help update translations or find volunteers to help. Educators must use new versions of program annually. |
| Establishes guidelines for recertification | Educators must recertify every 2 years by taking the updated program or a portion of the program again in person or online |
2) MammAlive Foundation (a non-profit association):
MammAlive Foundation is composed of a Board of Directors, Healthy Breast Educators, regional coordinators and members-at-large who are interested in promoting the goals of the Foundation.
Functions of the Foundation:
| Function | How | When | Who |
| Provides Healthy Breast Educators with most current information regarding breast cancer and breast health – shared responsibility to post on facebook page.
This information is then shared to the public. (association members could each stay on top of one focus area – ie food, legislation, hormones, env chemicals, herbs, mind-body practices)
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Facebook group
Ezine shared between HBP and MammAlive Publications Webinar updates Annual workshop Blogs on MammAlive Foundation website from regions Position Papers (need standardized look for position papers) October tips shared |
Random
Monthly
Occasionally Annually Annual Monthly Occasional |
all members
sdk, ezine writers sdk sdk
members, NDs, Nutritionists NDs |
| Provides Healthy Breast Educators with resources in cooperation with Healthy Breast Program, which approves them | Healthy Breast Program approves branding, consider using Siri Hari or Nash D’Sousa for design
Resources are posted on google site and MammAlive Foundation site for all to use Need for resources emerges from members i.e. banner for health show, cookbook |
as needed | members state need at monthly meetings; board makes decisions |
| Organized into international and regional teams to achieve a common purpose of global education in breast cancer risk reduction | Monthly meetings for International Board members, regional co-ordinators and regional teams. Regional Co-ordinators relay information from international board to regional board and vice versa
Regional and international board submit goals for the next 12 months every Jan and May for global coordination. HB Educators must participate in global vision. |
Monthly | Need international and regional board of directors.
Need regional coordinators as go-between, who attend both meetings monthly and relay information |
| Runs membership campaign, collects membership dues. | Annual Dec membership drive, online forms. Membership fees split 50/50 between regional and international associations. (Double the membership fee if there is a dual association) | Dec 1-Jan 15 | Board of directors, secretary, treasurer and regional coordinators, take care of campaign |
| Connects Healthy Breast Educators, providing community support and avenue for communication and sharing information | Membership, monthly meetings, facebook group, ezine, committees that work in one area. | Monthly meeting, regular facebook posts | All |
| Shares common problems and solutions – ie how to market programs; get them into hospitals | Documents successful approaches and shares with group. Files stored in google site for all members to use. | Continually | Members share |
| Create 5-year vision and annual goals and strategy | Board of directors create the vision, with input from members and regions. Members act to manifest the vision and goals.
Vision is described on the MammAlive Foundation website and in the MammAlive Foundation google site Include goals on the google site in the To Do list and on mammalive.net site under Our Community |
Dec-Jan and May-June are times to set the vision for the next year.
Set monthly achievable goals to manifest vision |
Board of Directors with input from members to include collective and individual visions.
Secretary reminds members of monthly goals and records in google site. President compiles goals after input from members. |
| Generates, oversees and approves fundraising initiatives | International and Regional Board of Directors generates and approves; members carry out fundraising
Need to decide what we are fundraising for ie cookbook Possible fundraising events: Bhangara for Breasts, Garden Tour, Sips and Tips Tea Party; Annual Oct Breast Health Challenge International and regional fundraising needed |
Annual fundraiser decided upon a year in advance; fundraising occurs in Oct each year | Members submit proposals to be funded Sept 1 each year, for the next year.
Members organize fundraising regionally as well as participate in international efforts set by the international board. |
| Approves fees associated with proposed programs to be funded. | Members submit funding requests.
International and Regional Boards approve funding or not. Boards create criteria on what can be funded. |
Funding requests submitted once a year on a specific date i.e. Sept 1 for the following year, so we can target our Oct campaign to meet these fundraising goals | MammAlive International or Regional Board |
| Applies for grants to fund community Healthy Breast Programs, or uses Kickstarter, Indiegogo or Go Fund Me | Either an association member explores the grant-seeking or we hire a grant-writer.
First we would determine what we want to do with a grant i.e. create a cookbook; teach the program to disadvantaged women; translate manual or materials |
Determine by Jan 15 which grants to seek, and who will fill out the application | Grant-writing committee |
| Fundraises to help with any translation or layout costs of manuals, powerpoints and promotional materials for use by all educators teaching the Healthy Breast Program | MammAlive Foundation with Sat Dharam Kaur and regional coordinator determine the best way to facilitate translation of materials. | As need arises, at least 6 months before new program begins | MammAlive Board, regional coordinator and Sat Dharam Kaur |
| Sets an annual Foundation budget, and ensures that financial needs are met (bookkeeeping, accounting, administrative, legal, office expenses) | International and Regional Board of Directors sets budget by Nov 30 for following year
Regional Coordinator creates and manages regional budget |
International and Regional Boards meet monthly | International and Regional Board of Directors,
Regional Co-ordinators |
| Generates petitions or bring awareness to existing petitions related to breast cancer prevention | Association member volunteers to research or create quarterly petitions or social/environmental activism pertinent to breast health. Committee created to do this. | Meets monthly and passes on strategies and initiatives to members and info for ezine | Environmental Activism committee |
| Comments publicly (in writing or by video or public speaking engagements) on newsworthy breast health items. Ie new research, political activities, environmental situations | members, public relations position. Committee of writers, researchers
Publishes this online through website, blog and facebook as a MammAlive Foundation Fact Sheet |
As required or inspired | Members, NDs, nutritionists, board members |