ONE KNOCK MAKES A DIFFERENCE
Andrea Ivory is the founder and executive director of the Women’s Breast & Heart Initiative (WBHI), a nonprofit based on a simple yet troubling premise: Low-income women face numerous barriers to getting screened for breast cancer and heart disease. They frequently can’t take off work. They may not have a car. Many are trapped in healthcare limbo: They make too much money for public support but not enough to afford health insurance. To surmount those obstacles, Ivory and her roughly 1,000 trained, multilingual volunteers go door to door in at-risk communities, visiting nearly 11,000 households each year and bringing resources directly to them.
The concept changes lives. In Miami Gardens, a woman opened her door, met a
