SAN DIEGO, May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Tracy Richey, CFRE, has been named Executive Director for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, San Diego Affiliate. The position is a new one for the growing affiliate which last year raised more than $800,000 for breast cancer research, education, screening and treatment in San Diego. Since its inception in 1995, the San Diego affiliate has raised more than $3.6 million for breast cancer research and treatment in San Diego.
As Executive Director, Richey will lead fundraising, public relations and marketing, personnel management and planning for the organization.
Richey comes to Komen after working with the San Diego Hospice Foundation since 1995. He held a variety of increasingly responsible positions at San Diego Hospice culminating as the Chief Development Officer for the Foundation. Prior to joining San Diego Hospice, Richey began his professional career in the non-profit sector in 1990 at the Rehabilitation Foundation in Santa Barbara. He is also a past faculty instructor at the University of San Diego in the George Washington University Event Management Program, being recognized in 2002 by the University as the "Educator of the Year."
Richey is a certified fundraising professional through the Association of Fundraising Professionals, is a local and national presenter on the topic of healthcare fundraising, and holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Public Relations from the University of Oklahoma.
He is a committed community activist, with past experience on a number of Boards of Directors including the San Diego United Way/Combined Health Agencies, Association for Healthcare Philanthropy and AIDS Walk San Diego.
The San Diego Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was founded in 1995 by a group of volunteers committed to saving and improving lives of people affected by breast cancer. The affiliate is a fund raising organization that provides grants to organizations and medical clinics in our community that serve individuals in San Diego County, addressing all ages and economic backgrounds, while placing special emphasis on the medically under served.
The Komen Foundation was established in 1982 by Nancy Goodman Brinker in memory of her sister who died from breast cancer at the age of 36. Brinker herself was diagnosed just two years later and has spent the past 24 years dedicating her life to finding a cure, hence -- the Race for the Cure(R).
The Komen Foundation is a national organization with a network of volunteers throughout local chapters and events across the country, fighting to eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease by research, education, screening and treatment. The Foundation is the largest private funder of research dedicated solely to breast cancer in the United States.
Media Contact: Tracy Richey 858-564-0440 -- office 858-751-5760 -- fax tracy@sdkomen.com
San Diego Affiliate
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation,CONTACT: Tracy Richey of Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, SanDiego Affiliate, +1-858-564-0440, or fax, +1-858-751-5760,tracy@sdkomen.com
