Tell Every Amazing Lady About Ovarian Cancer Foundation
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Only 14% of women report being aware of the symptoms of ovarian cancer. 77% of those with ovarian cancer were diagnosed with an advanced late stage of the disease. There is currently no accurate screening test for ovarian cancer. The Pap smear does not test for ovarian cancer. It is the leading cause of death among gynecological cancers in the United States and the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths among U.S. women. Ovarian cancer survival rates are much lower than other cancers that affect women.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Annual T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run™ Program
The T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run™ Program is a program celebrates the courage of ovarian cancer survivors and the strength of the families who have been touched by the disease, while spreading awareness to the public and raising money for ovarian cancer research. This program takes places in cities throughout the United States during September, which is Ovarian Cancer Awareness month.
The name of the T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run™ represents both teal, the color that symbolizes ovarian cancer, and the not for profit organization that established the event, Tell Every Amazing Lady About Ovarian Cancer Louisa M. McGregor Ovarian Cancer Foundation.
Some facts about the T.E.A.L.® Walk:
The first T.E.A.L.® Walk took place in Brooklyn, NY in 2009. The first T.E.A.L.® Run took place in Brooklyn, NY 2013. In September 2013, T.E.A.L.® had its first Satellite T.E.A.L.® Walk in Woodbury, NY. Over 14,632 registered participants have been a part of our T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run™ program with 719 teams since 2009. This program has taken place in 7 cities in 5 states. T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run™ Events have taken place in Brooklyn, NY; Savannah, GA; Litchfield, CT; Whitesboro, NY; Highland Mills, NY; Fairfield, PA; and McCalla, AL.
The Brooklyn T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run™ is NYC’s largest ovarian cancer specific Walk/Run. Participants include survivors, caregivers, families, friends and the general public who come together to raise awareness of and promote a cure for ovarian cancer. We celebrate those who’ve battled the disease during our survivor ceremony. There is entertainment throughout the day along with educational booths and fun activities for the whole family. Thousands of people participate in this amazing event. The 2.5 mile Walk is non competitive and the 5K Run is timed so that winners can be announced. Both the Walk and Run take place on the same day in Brooklyn.
The T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run™, however, is just one of the many ways that Tell Every Amazing Lady® raises much needed funds for research and awareness. Throughout the year, T.E.A.L.® hosts other fundraisers or takes part in many other events, online promotions and awareness in the community, including presentations at health fairs and schools.
Awareness Programs
T.E.A.L.® is continuously involved in community events to educate the public about the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer. As part of this program, T.E.A.L.® participates in health fairs, symposiums, and lectures at schools, universities, community centers, hospitals, and community meetings throughout the year to reach as many people as possible. T.E.A.L.® also hosts a wide range of free workshops in the T.E.A.L.® community center, all with an awareness component. Every year, T.E.A.L.® partners with the NY Mets to turn Citi Field T.E.A.L.® and host an Ovarian Cancer Awareness NY Mets game. T.E.A.L.® also lights buildings and monuments teal as a symbol of ovarian cancer awareness during September, which is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness month. Every year during this month, T.E.A.L.® partners with local business and organizations to turn New York City and beyond teal to spread awareness about ovarian cancer.
Medical Research Program
T.E.A.L.®'s medical research program aids in the advancement of Ovarian Cancer screening test and treatment research. T.E.A.L.® has funded Ovarian Cancer research at some of the countries most prestigious hospitals and institutions. We are constantly seeking proposals for funding from various researchers working on projects related to Ovarian Cancer. Please visit www.tealwalk.org/beneficiaries to learn more about how you can apply for research funding.
Survivor Program
T.E.A.L.® defines an ovarian cancer survivor as an “amazing lady” who at any time in her life has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, whether she is currently a patient in treatment or cancer free. T.E.A.L.® works to ameliorate the lives of ovarian cancer survivors by: providing resources and educational materials to survivors, honoring survivors everywhere and connecting them with one another, and funding cutting edge research. The resources and educational materials shared with our amazing ladies include information on genetic testing, clinical trials, survivor courses, nutrition, home support, fertility support, beauty support, financial resources, and more. T.E.A.L.® connects survivors with one another through support groups and various workshops at the T.E.A.L.® community center, globally accessible webinars and support groups, and the survivor ceremony at Annual T.E.A.L.® Walks. T.E.A.L.® also provides survivors the opportunity to share their stories with others and helps connect survivors with one another for peer-to-peer support.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of unique website visitors
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of public service announcements created
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Related Program
Awareness Programs
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
www.tealwalk.org/psa or visit www.youtube.com/tealwalk
Number of attendees present at rallies/events
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
www.tealwalk.org/reach
Number of website pageviews
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
www.tealwalk.org/reach
Number of participants attending course/session/workshop
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Women and girls
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Total number of audience members
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our organization functions on three main goals:
1)We hope to constantly increase our organizational reach until we tell every lady about Ovarian Cancer. We want to continue to promote the color teal as a symbol of Ovarian Cancer and awareness about one's body and risk factors. Many women, even those with a strong family history of Ovarian and Breast cancer do not know that they are not being tested for Ovarian Cancer. We want women to be informed about their health, cancer risk factors, and options to arm them with the tools to make decisions that could possible save their life.
2) We are constantly working to raise funds to allocate to research projects that are working to design an accurate screening test for Ovarian Cancer. A proper screening test would help save millions of lives by allowing this disease to be detected at an earlier stage, and treated more effectively. We also fund projects that are working to improve treatment strategies for Ovarian Cancer patients with the overall goal of improving the quality of life of those suffering from Ovarian Cancer.
3) We work to connect and empower Ovarian Cancer Survivors and families who have been affected by this devastating disease. Our supporters often refer to our organization as a family. Through our events, especially the annual Walk/Run, we have been able to create a network of support, not only between participants and our organization, but also between participants to each other.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Tell Every Amazing Lady.® educates the public about women’s health from head to toe, through mind, body, and soul. T.E.A.L.® reaches participants and countless others through direct, targeted outreach, particularly those who are at high-risk of developing ovarian cancer. While focusing on wellness, such as stress and anxiety relief, mental health, nutrition, physical activity, and overall wellness, we help attendees adopt healthy habits with the goal of risk-reducing and preventing cancer.
The foundation aims to connect with women to support, uplift, and educate them so they can have freedom from pain and stress, and know their bodies in order to advocate for their overall health.
Survivor Program: One of the ways that T.E.A.L.® shows support to ovarian cancer survivors is through our T.E.A.L.® Amazing Lady Membership Program. The T.E.A.L.® Amazing Lady Membership Program seeks to build community, provide support and comfort, and celebrate the strength of ovarian cancer survivors. The membership is completely free and open to anyone with a history or active diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Active members of the T.E.A.L.® Amazing Lady Membership Program are gifted exclusive items in free T.E.A.L.® Kits mailed to their homes. They also have exclusive access to our digital Survivor Socials, which serve as a T.E.A.L.® staff check-in with survivors, as well as a chance for survivors to connect with each other.
Awareness Program: Tell Every Amazing Lady®’s awareness program aims to educate demographics of people about their risk of developing ovarian cancer based on their genetic risk due to geographic location, and/or ethnic background. T.E.A.L.® successfully translated its life-saving awareness materials into multiple languages, and will take this outreach further with this program designed to help women understand their genetics and risk of ovarian cancer based on their geography or ethnicity.
September Awareness Program: September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. During this month, we organize a vigorous and dynamic awareness program around New York City and beyond.
Each September, T.E.A.L.® partners with local businesses and organizations to turn buildings and monuments teal to spread awareness about ovarian cancer.
T.E.A.L.® partners with Turn the Towns Teal® to provide teal ribbons for ovarian cancer awareness initiatives in September. Each year, we turn neighborhoods teal by partnering with local organizations, businesses, and schools. T.E.A.L.® ties a teal ribbon outside each business or home along with a window poster that explains what the ribbon symbolizes. The ribbons remain on trees for the whole month of September.
The September T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run serves as an event to support those impacted by ovarian cancer, as well as raise more health awareness to the general public as a form of cancer prevention during National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
T.E.A.L.® has a dedicated staff and a large, loyal volunteer base that helps make the Walk/Run happen annually. T.E.A.L.® functions on a dedicated support base of Ovarian Cancer Survivors and their friends and family who provide the funds that help the organization run. T.E.A.L.® has also managed to secure profitable partnerships and sponsorships over the years for monetary and in-kind donations. In the future, we hope to continue to grow our sponsorships and cooperate partnerships.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since inception we have been trying to grow the number and size of our outreach programs. This year, we have participated and organized more programs as ever, which means we have spread out message to a larger and more diverse crowd than ever before. These programs included a number of health fairs and symposiums, as well as guest speaking positions at prominent high school and colleges and a range of new fundraising programs. We are being invited and asked to participate in more events that ever before, showing our ability to establish a name in the community. We also have a spike in our mailing lists and internet activity, meaning that more and more people are becoming aware of T.E.A.L. and our message. This year, our Annual Walk/Run was the most successful ever. For the first time ever, we hosted a 5K run along with our walk, allowing us to draw a new crowd. All these improvements directly show the success and growth of our awareness spreading efforts. We have also funded research studies that are already touching human life.
We hope with continued success we can grow our staff, allowing us to take on even more new projects that we cannot yet take on due to our small size.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We share the feedback we received with the people we serve
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection, Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time
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The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Tell Every Amazing Lady About Ovarian Cancer Foundation
Board of directorsas of 10/31/2023
Annette Abolt
John McGregor
Pamela Esposito-Amery
Co-Founder
Louisa M. McGregor
Co-Founder
Phyllis Bellocchio
Gina DeFillippo
Lawrence S Esposito
Rena Esposito
Annette Abolt
Elizabeth Poynor
Sharyn Lewin
John Cucarese
Patsy Gentile
Samantha Cohen
Kathleen Marcario
Flora Poleshchuk
Nancy Irizarry
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Equity strategies
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- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.