2023 marked one other eventful yr for Most cancersCare’s emotional and academic help applications, each in-person and digital, in addition to advocacy efforts and fundraising for folks affected by most cancers. On this fiscal yr alone, we supplied over 52,000 hours of emotional and sensible help and answered over 46,000 calls on our helplines.
Earlier this yr, we partnered with the Bladder Most cancers Advocacy Community to launch the first-ever helpline devoted to anybody affected by bladder most cancers, together with sufferers, their family members, caregivers and people who have misplaced a liked one.
We additionally launched our Employer Toolkit on Biomarker Testing, which helps these concerned in profit design make knowledgeable selections about overlaying most cancers biomarker testing for his or her staff. Biomarker testing helps enhance outcomes of most cancers remedy and scale back well being inequities.
This spring, we gathered on the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York for our nationwide gala, which raised over $1,000,000 for our free sensible, monetary and emotional help companies for anybody affected by most cancers. Our Pageant of Hope gala on the Park Savoy in New Jersey additionally raised over $150,000 to fund our free help companies.
The up to date 2023 version of our Serving to Hand information was additionally launched earlier this yr. This information compiles details about organizations offering sensible and monetary help for folks impacted by most cancers. It’s accessible in print, digitally and thru our On-line Serving to Hand.
In June, Most cancersCare‘s Younger Professionals Committee held its sixth annual “Cocktails for a Trigger” fundraising occasion. The gathering doubled its fundraising objective to help future undergraduate scholarships for younger adults impacted by most cancers whereas celebrating this yr’s scholarship recipients.
In July, 19 households who not too long ago misplaced a liked one to most cancers gathered in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania for our annual Therapeutic Hearts Household Bereavement Camp. Each adults and youngsters had the chance to attach with others who’ve related experiences whereas participating in enjoyable and therapeutic actions together with horseback using, fishing, crafts and help teams.
2023 was additionally an eventful yr for Most cancersCare‘s schooling division. Closed captioning is now accessible for our free recorded Join® Training Workshops, making them extra accessible to a wider viewers. This yr, we streamed 67 workshops overlaying remedy updates, well being care inequities, coping methods and extra.
Our free digital Coping Circle Workshops continued to supply schooling and help to folks affected by most cancers. Matters included medical trials, shared determination making, gynecologic cancers and extra.
Our neighborhood applications, each digital and in-person in New York and New Jersey, additionally provided data and help to folks affected by most cancers. Matters and actions included train, yoga, gratitude, artwork and extra.
Our oncology social employees and different employees attended many conferences and well being gala’s in 2023, the place they’d the chance to signify Most cancersCare, give displays, communicate on panels and share their experience on quite a lot of cancer-related matters. On the Affiliation of Oncology Social Work Annual Convention in June, our Director of Scientific Packages, Sarah Paul, LCSW, OSW-C, gained first prize for her poster presentation on her work creating Most cancersCare‘s Most cancers Out Loud podcast, which produced eight episodes in 2023, all accessible to stream or obtain on Spotify, iTunes and Google Play.
Initially of the college yr, our Again-to-Faculty Program supplied backpacks and age-appropriate college provides to over 200 college students affected by most cancers in pre-Okay by way of twelfth grade all through New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Most cancersCare additionally earned a prestigious four-star ranking from Charity Navigator, demonstrating our dedication to monetary accountability and organizational well being. This makes us an official “Give with Confidence” charity, which means that donations are used successfully to advance our mission based mostly on Charity Navigator’s standards.
In October, Most cancersCare and mix.works launched myTRIAList, a useful resource web site and medical trial finder that assist folks residing with most cancers and their family members navigate the challenges of discovering medical trials.
In November, we hosted our twentieth annual Lung Most cancers Stroll for Hope in Woodbury, New York, the place over 200 folks walked to honor the reminiscence of family members misplaced to lung most cancers, rejoice post-treatment survivors and help these at the moment dealing with a lung most cancers analysis. Because of the generosity of a whole lot of our supporters, over $90,000 was raised to fund our direct help companies and applications for anybody affected by lung most cancers.
In December, Most cancersCare for Youngsters’ Winter Heat and Vacation Reward Card applications made the vacations a bit of hotter by offering 137 packages of winter equipment and 150 reward playing cards to youngsters and teenagers affected by most cancers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
The winter additionally received a bit of hotter due to Most cancersCare‘s Share the Heat Program, which supplied new coats to 75 people aged 50+ who’re in lively remedy for most cancers in New York and New Jersey.
To prime all of it off, Most cancersCare supplied $81 million in monetary and co-payment help to over 28,000 folks for prices together with transportation and sensible wants and to assist pay for his or her medicines.
The tip of 2023 additionally marked the retirement of Patricia J. Goldsmith, Most cancersCare‘s former Chief Govt Officer and the appointment of Christine Verini because the group’s new CEO. Christine brings over 20 years of oncology expertise, which incorporates her function as Most cancersCare‘s Govt Vice President and Chief Working Officer and we look ahead to her steerage and strategic imaginative and prescient for the group!
This yr demonstrated the continued significance of several types of connection amongst our shoppers, employees and supporters. The return of extra in-person occasions, conferences and applications led to extra alternatives to construct neighborhood, whereas digital help companies and applications allowed for larger accessibility and comfort. As we rejoice 80 years of offering assist and hope within the new yr, we’ll proceed to construct on the methods we are able to help anybody affected by most cancers.