It’s exhausting to consider that 2021 is sort of over! All year long, Most cancersCare has continued to help the rising and altering wants of these impacted by a most cancers analysis. We’re excited to share a variety highlights and achievements:
In January, we revealed the up to date 2021 version of our Serving to Hand information. This information provides data for organizations providing sensible and monetary help and the 2022 version shall be revealed quickly. Within the meantime, search our On-line Serving to Hand for sources.
Our Pen Pal Program helps older adults scale back emotions of isolation. To mark Nationwide Volunteer Month, we interviewed oncology social employee Danielle Saff, MSW, LMSW, and our program accomplice, Caring for Seniors founder Nina Rawal.
Our first-ever digital gala raised over $800,000 to help our free packages and providers! The occasion included unforgettable public sale gadgets and a efficiency from Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti.
We partnered with Gryt Well being to share the knowledge of one in every of our social employees, Charlotte Ference, MSW, LMSW, about psychological well being and dealing with most cancers.
Our devoted staff deliberate a full digital weekend of actions for households dealing with the lack of a cherished one. Most cancersCare’s first all-virtual Therapeutic Hearts Household Bereavement Camp was a powerful success!
We took a glance again on the first yr of our free phone case administration service, serving to purchasers overcome limitations to care.
In August, we launched Magnolia Objective in Planning™ in partnership with Triage Most cancers. Magnolia Objective in Planning™ connects individuals affected by most cancers to sensible and authorized sources they should plan for the longer term.
To rejoice Most cancers Out Loud’s season 4 launch, we appeared again on the program’s beginnings and its future in a two-part interview with workers.
Our CEO, Patricia J. Goldsmith, was named to the Forbes 50 Over 50 Imaginative and prescient Record, alongside figures like Geena Davis, Eileen Fisher and Wally Funk.
The Most cancersCare Younger Professionals Committee’s Scholarship Program re-opened for younger adults who’ve misplaced a father or mother to most cancers. To commemorate the passing of former YPC board member and shopper Seynabou Ba, we additionally created The Seynabou Ba Fund because of an nameless donor.
100 and forty kids and youths obtained backpacks and college provides as a part of our annual Again-to-Faculty Program.
In October, for Breast Most cancers Consciousness Month, we partnered with Awe Impressed to share data on physique picture and post-treatment survivorship.
For Lung Most cancers Consciousness Month, Lengthy Island Social Providers Director Winfield Boerckel, MSW, MBA, LCSW-R, shared his insights and observations after a 25-year profession in social work and lung most cancers advocacy. Win shall be retiring on the finish of this yr, and we salute him for 1 / 4 century of serving the lung neighborhood!
Most cancersCare is ready to serve 1000’s of purchasers throughout the nation every year because of the generosity of our supporters. We’re grateful every day for the impression we’re in a position to have on these dealing with a most cancers analysis. If you want to help our free packages and providers, please think about making a donation to Most cancersCare.