Leaving Cancer Behind’s Fundraiser
Benefitting: Valley Girls and Guys
Team: Leaving Cancer Behind
Event Fundraiser: Be The Hope Walk 2021
We are so thankful for the family and friends who have supported our family during my cancer journey. This includes The Valley Girls & Guys! It's been a hard 5 years and unfortunately keeps getting harder.
This amazing non-profit helps local families, like ours, who are struggling because of cancer. They help patients and their families (with all types of cancer), with different needs that they have. They also donate money to LOCAL medical centers, like Valley, where I get my treatment. I love that all their fundraising money stays local and helps others in our community!
They blessed me with a Valley Girls and Guys blanket and a WHO Dream, which was such an amazing time for our family to get away and spend time together without having to think about cancer and normal difficulties of day to day life.
We would love you to donate so they can help more families, like ours! Or if you are local, register and walk with us! Our team is named after my cancer blog, Leaving Cancer Behind.
Team Members
About Valley Girls and Guys
Valley Girls & Guys! is an all-volunteer organization with the sole goal of harnessing the power of community to support cancer patients and their families. Our journey began in 2007 raising money to support a national breast cancer organization, which culminated in donations totaling over 3.2 + million dollars. In October of 2014, Valley Girls & Guys became a Washington State 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to providing assistance to local families who were suffering from any cancer diagnosis. Valley Girls & Guys! is served by its Founder and President, Tina McDonough, and a steadfast Board of Directors who carefully steward the resources of our donors to efficiently and effectively support cancer patients in the communities where they live, work and receive treatment. A Cancer diagnosis affects the whole family, and Valley Girls & Guys! eases the burden faced by families in need.
Valley Girls & Guys develops and supports programs that offer hope and encouragement to cancer patients and their loved ones through:
- Patient financial assistance
- Patient support groups
- Funding local cancer research, at Seattle Children's Hospital (Strive-02 Solid Tumor Immunotherapy and High Risk Leukemia clinical trial) and at the Cancer Vaccine Institute at UW Medicine (breast and ovarian cancer vaccine clinical trials)
- Granting Who Dreams to those with a terminal diagnosis
- Sending personalized blankets to those undergoing treatment through our Glenda Weiler Blankets of Comfort and Hope program
- Supporting local support services of cancer patients, such as Camp Kesem, Mountain For Mammaries, and Casting for Recovery
- Funding mammograms, ultrasounds, and biopsies for those uninsured or underinsured
- Funding scholarships at local high schools for those affected by a cancer diagnosis
- Community Outreach Program - Be The Hope Walk
Through these programs, we are strengthening the community that surrounds cancer patients and their families at a time when they need it most. Valley Girls & Guys! is dedicated to working alongside those in need, within their community, through the total cancer journey.