Cooks Tour Grants

• Cooks Tour 2007 – over $50,000 was raised as the second in four payments for a digital mammogram machine for the UAMS/Cancer Institute Breast Center that will make digital mammography available to all women.

• Cooks Tour 2006 – Over $50,000 was raised as the first in four payments for a digital mammogram machine for the UAMS/ACRC Breast Center that will make digital mammography available to all women.

• Cooks Tour 2005 – Over $50,000 was raised.

• Cooks Tour 2004 – Over $64,000 was raised. The funds were distributed in November 2004.

• Cooks Tour 2000 – Cooks Tour 2003: A total of $200,000 to partially fund the UAMS Family Home and ACRC Cancer Support Center, a “home away from home” offering support and activities for cancer patients and their families and friends.

• Cooks Tour 1999: $44,000 raised to develop easy to read cancer education materials for the Women’s Oncology Clinic at ACRC.

• Cooks Tour 1998: $25,000 used to help fund the Charles William Rasco, III Endowed Symposium on Oncology

• Cooks Tour 1997: $22,000 used to support research in the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of breast cancer.

• Cooks Tour 1996: $32,000 divided between helping with patient headphones for the aspheresis area and with a Hema-Tek Slide Stainer and Bone Marrow Filing System for the Hematology/Bone Marrow Clinical Laboratory.

• Cooks Tour 1995: $25,000 to purchase inventory for a gift shop opened in conjunction with ACRC’s expansion.

• Cooks Tour 1994: $18,000 to help support a national educational breast conference for physicians and begin a patient partners program for bone marrow transplant patients.

• Cooks Tour 1993: $5,000 to underwrite an educational breast cancer conference and to open a gift cart as a service to patients, selling items such as turbans, for example, at no profit.

• Cooks Tour 1991: Not really a fund raising event, but rather a means of increasing awareness of the newly opened ACRC within the community. Nevertheless $2,500 was used to purchase coffee and snacks, plants, and televisions for patient waiting areas.