Former President Clinton lost his mother, Virginia Clinton Kelley, to breast cancer over 12 years ago. Last year, in partnership with the National Breast Cancer Coalition, NBCC, he helped launch the Virginia Clinton Kelley Breast Education and Research Fund, in honor of his mother, to support breast cancer programs in educating and training breast cancer survivors on influencing research and public policy, fostering innovation in research and health care, and expanding access to quality care.

With Barbra Streisand and other friends, Clinton held a fundraiser in his penthouse apartment atop the Clinton presidential library to raise money for the foundation named after his mother in continuing the progressive breast cancer advocacy programs. NBCC recently received a $2.9 million grant from the federal government to study a vaccine to prevent the recurrence of breast cancer.

On the invitation Clinton wrote, ""We owe it to those who have lost the battle against breast cancer and those still fighting it." If you would like more information on the advocacy work that NBCC is doing that the Virginia Clinton Kelley Breast Education and Research Fund supports, go here.