Agenda

Host (6 mins)

Thelma D. Jones, AAS, CHW 

Founder, Thriver, and Advocate

Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer Fund

ACS Voices of Black Women Ambassador

Blessing (1 min)

Elder Sandra Butler (Washington, DC)

Breast Cancer Survivor

Zion Hill Baptist Church

Introduction of Speaker (1 min)

Thelma D. Jones

Guest Speaker (10)

Sylvia Powers (Dallas, TX)

Breast Cancer Advocate

Project Coordinator

National Consortium of Breast Centers

(NCBC)

Introduction of Speaker (1min)

Sylvia Powers

Guest Speaker (10 mins)

Akilah S. Wallace (Dallas, TX)

Founder & CEO

Taylor Wallace

2019 Philanthropist of the Year 

  by the Young Black & Giving Back Institute

Question and Answers (10 mins)

Facilitated by Sylvia Powers

Introduction of Speaker (1 min)

Thelma D. Jones 

His Story (7 mins)

Edward Jones (Washington, DC)

Vice President of Programs and

Philanthropic Advising Services at ABFE-A

Philanthropic Partnership for Black

Communities

(Stage IV Prostate Cancer Survivor)

Announcements (5 mins)

Closing Remarks (3 mins)

Thelma D. Jones

Adjournment

Special Thanks: TDJBCF Newsletter Editor and Ambassador Lashanah Thomas-Walker, MA (Atlanta, GA), Peri Hamlin, Author Haili Blassingame, NPR 1A Host Jenn White and Sylvia Powers (Dallas, TX). TDJBCF Ambassadors — Regina Blye (Houston, TX), Dorothy Davis, Sheri Denkensohn-Trott, Sylvia Jackson, Anthia Peters, Scarlett S. Small, Denise Triplett, Angela “Angie” Walker, and Karen Hargrove and Kia Toye (In training), Brea Hickson (In memoriam) — The Southwester, Pentandra Digital Marketing, LLC.

Upcoming Events

Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer Fund celebrates the 74th Birthday of Founder Thelma

D. Jones, 14th Anniversary of the Founding of the TDJBCF, and Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, at 6 pm, at St. Augustine’s

Episcopal Church on the SW Waterfront, 555 Water Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024.Reception starts at 6 pm; program starts at 6:30 pm. Details to follow.

For more information, email thelma@tdjbreastcancerfund.org.

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Learn about TDJBCF Founder Jones Years of Advocacy at The World Bank.

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