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A special End Breast Cancer license plate will soon be available to Florida residents,
be available to Florida residents,
thanks to the efforts of the Florida Breast Cancer Coalition. The non-profit organization
successful gathered 22,715 signatures from Florida residents willing to purchase the tag
and raised the $60,000 required to apply for a specialty license plate. The plate, which
will be available at the end of the year, will help fund research into breast cancer
prevention, causes, and treatment.
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The new Florida End
Breast Cancer license plate |
The license plate was formally approved by the Florida Senate and House this past
March, and Governor Jeb Bush will sign the bill in a formal ceremony this May. "This
license plate is important because it helps raise money for more research into causes and
treatments of breast cancer," said breast cancer activist Staci Ehrenkrantz, who
helped make the license plate realty.
The special End Breast Cancer license plate will cost $27 more than a regular Florida
plate, and $25 of that cost will go directly to the Florida Breast Cancer Coalition
Research Foundation, which will oversee a grant/peer review process to award funds to
research programs throughout Florida. The plate will feature a woman figure on the left
side of the plate wearing the pink ribbon symbolizing the fight against breast cancer and
the words "End Breast Cancer" displayed at the top of the plate.
Staci Ehrenkrantz and her friend Debi Strochak worked closely with the Florida Breast
Cancer Coalition to get the state of Florida to approve the special breast cancer license
plate. Ehrenkrantz first got the idea of a breast cancer license plate while driving to
work one morning. "I saw that the car in front of me had a Challenger license plate
to commemorate the space shuttle. That’s when it hit me, there should be a license
plate to help raise money for breast cancer research," said Ehrenkrantz, whose mother
had been diagnosed with breast cancer several years earlier. When Ehrenkrantz contacted
her friend Strochak, who owned an automobile tag agency, she learned that Strochak had had
the same idea three years earlier but had to put things on hold as she underwent breast
cancer treatment.
The Florida Breast Cancer Coalition is a non-profit grassroots advocacy organization
dedicated to the eradication of breast cancer. Their mission is ensure sufficient
government and public funding for breast cancer research, quality health care for all
without fear of discrimination, and an environment free of carcinogens. The organization
is currently restructuring their website to include information about the breast cancer
license plate as well as creating a special 800-number, 888-END-IT-NOW.
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