Network News - Winter/Spring 2010 - Canadian Breast Cancer ...
Network News - Winter/Spring 2010 - Canadian Breast Cancer ... Network News - Winter/Spring 2010 - Canadian Breast Cancer ...
CBCN: Here for You Donors are important partners at CBCN, in good times and in bad times. In good times, individual gifts, large or small, enable us to bring your donations together to develop services or resources directly requested by survivors and patients. You know these are not always the same projects that are favored by priorities of government and foundation funders. In bad times our caring donors stretch to find a little more to keep funds flowing for services to breast cancer patients and survivors. If you have • attended the Young Women with Breast Cancer Conference or want to attend the next one • called the CBCN office after a diagnosis looking for resources in your area, • esearched on our web site for groups or resources of all kinds, (60,000 people a month do!) • received our newsletter Network News, which you are reading now, still free, you know the importance of these projects • received our online newsletter Outreach for breaking news • joined our Adopt a Riding Campaign for survivor advocacy • joined and participated in one of our project advisory committees You know the importance of these services! Be a partner in funding them now! Join our caring, compassionate and smart donors who continue to invest in support and advocacy for breast cancer patients and survivors. “Survivor” means much more than a television show! Tell us what “Survivor” means to you and we will publish your email and/or letters in our next Network News. Give to keep the survivor voice strong! We are your “someone to turn to” for information you need now. Your investment in CBCN keeps the good work of our mission going and keeps us available for women newly diagnosed and breast cancer survivors across the country. As a unique organization in being the only national survivor-led organization dedicated to breast cancer survivors, we are confident that donors will continue to see the value in their choice to support us, even in difficult times. Ways to give: Easiest, go to the CanadaHelps web site, a secure site serving Canadian charities. Once there, type in Canadian Breast Cancer Network and you will arrive at our giving page, just follow the instructions. Your receipt, recognized by Revenue Canada for income tax purposes, will arrive within hours by email. Consider monthly giving – even $25 a month will make a difference! Or, send a cheque made out to Canadian Breast Cancer Network, 331 Cooper Street, Suite 300, Ottawa ON K2P 0G5. You can also call CBCN at our toll-free number 1-800-685-8820 and Maureen or Judy will take your credit card donation. We appreciate our donors! CBCN’s Website Friends Remembered Pages The Canadian Breast Cancer Network has established The Friends Remembered Pages so we can remember and share the lives of relatives, friends and others near and dear whom we have lost to breast cancer, and to celebrate their lives as well as the lives of women and men who have survived breast cancer and who continue to live with us in this world as well as in our hearts and minds. We invite you to contribute obituaries, stories, articles, poems, anecdotes and photos to this section about Friends you remember. Send them to cbcn@cbcn.ca. 34 Network News Winter/Spring 2010
Continued from Page 30 Top 10 Things Young Previvors (Probably) Want to Hear 9) I’ll be there for you. 8) Good for you for doing what’s right for you. Members, Friends, Funding Partners and Corporate Friends CBCN gratefully acknowledges the following individuals and organizations for their financial contributions for this financial year (July 1, 2009 to present) 7) I don’t want you to get breast cancer, either. 6) I don’t know what it must feel like to be going through what you are going through, but I know it sucks. 5) Talk to me. I’m here to listen. 4) When you are recovering from surgery, I’ll come over and watch DVDs with you, wash your hair, and bring you vegan junk food. 3) You are brave. 2) You are strong. 1) You will still be beautiful. • Steph H. is a young previvor living in Chicago. Check out her blog at http://goodbyetoboobs.blogspot.com/ Member ($25-$99) • Hundreds of individuals and groups across the country Friends of CBCN ($100-$499) • Alwyn Anderson • Dolores Ast • Lisa Bélanger • Eva Bereti • Isabel Burrows • Dr. Eva Butler • Carol Ann Cole • Dr. Brian D. Doan • Karen DeKoning • Helen Elsaesser • Beata Faraklas of All Hair Alternatives & Mastectomy Boutique • Chris Foster • Ratna Ghosh • Dolores Griffin • Darlene Halwas • Holly Hinds • Maureen Jackman • Fran Jones • Dr. Helen M. Madill • Diane Moore • Patricia Moore • Laurie Porovsky-Beachell • Mary Rogers • Lyle Spencer • Charles & Nancy Weisdorff • Jan Zwicky Bronze Level Supporter ($500-$4,999) • Bell Canada • CyberAlert • Telus Communications • Tencor • Virage Silver Level Supporters ($5,000-$24,999) • Dell • Mike’s Hard Pink Lemonade • Temerty Family Foundation • The Harold Crabtree Foundation • The Quilt Project Gold Level Supporter ($25,000-$99,999) • AstraZeneca • GlaxoSmithKline • Novartis • Pfizer • Roche • The Cure Foundation Platinum Level Supporter ($100,000 and over) • Breast Cancer Society of Canada Government • City of Ottawa, Ottawa Partnership for Jobs • Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, Government of Ontario • Public Health Agency of Canada • Service Canada • Canada Summer Jobs Corporate Sponsors • National Fundraising Network / Chocolates for Charity • Pizzazzing You • Sassy Sam’s • MOMPowered Inc. • Novelty Canada • Canadian Gift Concepts Network News Winter/Spring 2010 35
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CBCN: Here for You<br />
Donors are important partners at<br />
CBCN, in good times and in bad times.<br />
In good times, individual gifts, large<br />
or small, enable us to bring your<br />
donations together to develop services<br />
or resources directly requested by<br />
survivors and patients. You know<br />
these are not always the same projects<br />
that are favored by priorities of<br />
government and foundation funders.<br />
In bad times our caring donors stretch<br />
to find a little more to keep funds<br />
flowing for services to breast cancer<br />
patients and survivors.<br />
If you have<br />
• attended the Young Women with<br />
<strong>Breast</strong> <strong>Cancer</strong> Conference or want<br />
to attend the next one<br />
• called the CBCN office after a<br />
diagnosis looking for resources in<br />
your area,<br />
• esearched on our web site for<br />
groups or resources of all kinds,<br />
(60,000 people a month do!)<br />
• received our newsletter <strong>Network</strong><br />
<strong>News</strong>, which you are reading now,<br />
still free, you know the importance<br />
of these projects<br />
• received our online newsletter<br />
Outreach for breaking news<br />
• joined our Adopt a Riding<br />
Campaign for survivor advocacy<br />
• joined and participated in one of<br />
our project advisory committees<br />
You know the importance of these<br />
services!<br />
Be a partner in funding them now!<br />
Join our caring, compassionate and<br />
smart donors who continue to invest in<br />
support and advocacy for breast cancer<br />
patients and survivors.<br />
“Survivor” means much more than a<br />
television show!<br />
Tell us what “Survivor” means to you<br />
and we will publish your email and/or<br />
letters in our next <strong>Network</strong> <strong>News</strong>.<br />
Give to keep the survivor voice strong!<br />
We are your “someone to turn to” for<br />
information you need now.<br />
Your investment in CBCN keeps the<br />
good work of our mission going and<br />
keeps us available for women newly<br />
diagnosed and breast cancer survivors<br />
across the country.<br />
As a unique organization in being<br />
the only national survivor-led<br />
organization dedicated to breast cancer<br />
survivors, we are confident that donors<br />
will continue to see the value in their<br />
choice to support us, even in difficult<br />
times.<br />
Ways to give:<br />
Easiest, go to the CanadaHelps web<br />
site, a secure site serving <strong>Canadian</strong><br />
charities.<br />
Once there, type in <strong>Canadian</strong> <strong>Breast</strong><br />
<strong>Cancer</strong> <strong>Network</strong> and you will arrive<br />
at our giving page, just follow the<br />
instructions. Your receipt, recognized<br />
by Revenue Canada for income tax<br />
purposes, will arrive within hours by<br />
email.<br />
Consider monthly giving – even $25 a<br />
month will make a difference!<br />
Or, send a cheque made out to<br />
<strong>Canadian</strong> <strong>Breast</strong> <strong>Cancer</strong> <strong>Network</strong>, 331<br />
Cooper Street, Suite 300, Ottawa ON<br />
K2P 0G5.<br />
You can also call CBCN at our toll-free<br />
number 1-800-685-8820 and Maureen<br />
or Judy will take your credit card<br />
donation.<br />
We appreciate our donors!<br />
CBCN’s Website Friends<br />
Remembered Pages<br />
The <strong>Canadian</strong> <strong>Breast</strong> <strong>Cancer</strong> <strong>Network</strong> has established The Friends Remembered Pages so<br />
we can remember and share the lives of relatives, friends and others near and dear whom<br />
we have lost to breast cancer, and to celebrate their lives as well as the lives of women and<br />
men who have survived breast cancer and who continue to live with us in this world as<br />
well as in our hearts and minds.<br />
We invite you to contribute obituaries, stories, articles, poems, anecdotes and photos to this<br />
section about Friends you remember. Send them to cbcn@cbcn.ca.<br />
34 <strong>Network</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Winter</strong>/<strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2010</strong>
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