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Fundraising with Friends
Please join us April 1st through April 30th for our annual spring online fundraising campaign Fundraising with Friends. We are fundraising to ensure Cancer Lifeline programs and services remain free and accessible to everyone who needs them.
As you can see from the client video, Emmie was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2017. After treatment, she was cancer-free until 2020 when she learned that her cancer returned and she had to undergo major surgery and more treatments. Her steadfast faith and network of supporters helped immensely during this time, but she felt that she needed something more. A friend introduced her to Cancer Lifeline, and she realized that the missing link was a community of people like her. At Cancer Lifeline, Emmie and her husband received free individual counseling to work through their feelings and struggles. Emmie took an exercise class to reduce lymphedema (it worked!), and many art classes to help her heal emotionally.
Please join us in celebrating this season of renewal by supporting our mission to optimize the quality of life for people like Emmie and her husband who are living their best lives with cancer thanks to our amazing programs. Click here to make a gift today.
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Nancy Bell Evans
March 21, 1933 – January 26, 2024
Nancy Evans, former First Lady of Washington, died on January 26 from a fourth recurrence of breast cancer. Her death is a loss to so many people in our state, but a tremendous loss for our Cancer Lifeline community. She has been involved in Cancer Lifeline in one way or another since 1981.
Nancy Evans and Barbara Frederick (Cancer Lifeline’s beloved Executive Director of 23 years) and their husbands, met in a Bridge Club in 1967. When Barbara became Cancer Lifeline’s Executive Director in 1981, Nancy was her good friend and wise counsel.
Nancy was the Founder and Chair of the Friends of Cancer Lifeline Committee from 1989. This group provided support and fundraising help to Cancer Lifeline for many years. They were instrumental in raising funds for the building Cancer Lifeline purchased and settled into in 1999. When Barbara retired from Cancer Lifeline in 2005, the Friends of Cancer Lifeline initiated a major fundraising effort, in honor of Barbara, to ensure Cancer Lifeline’s future financial success.
The Friends of Cancer Lifeline was re-established in 2012 as the Cancer Lifeline Advisory Board. Nancy continued with her commitment to Cancer Lifeline by being an honorary but active member of the Advisory Board until her death. She seldom missed a meeting, a fundraising luncheon or breakfast, or a Resources for Hope event raising money for the Patient Financial Assistance Fund. She was a treasured colleague, trusted advisor, and dear friend to all of us. She showed up, did what she said she would do, and offered thoughtful suggestions. She asked the difficult questions that made us all stronger.
Nancy was honored to receive the Caregiver of the Year Award in 2007, and the Barbara Frederick Award from Cancer Lifeline in 2016.
All of us at Cancer Lifeline will miss Nancy’s wisdom, laughter and deep friendship. Members of the Advisory Board described her as one of a kind, feisty, remarkable, a treasured colleague, a shining light and beautiful spirit. We are so thankful her life of service included Cancer Lifeline. Nancy was a wonderful human and was so dear to Cancer Lifeline and those of us who were fortunate to get to work with her.
It’s truly special that her family chose Cancer Lifeline as one of the options for memorial donations. That was Nancy…a loyal and true friend to the end.
Lynn Behar
Chair, Cancer Lifeline Advisory Board
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Past Events
- Resources for Hope – October 7, 2023
- Read Between the Lines Art Show – August 17, 2023
- 2023 Impact Celebration – July 13, 2023
- Fundraising with Friends – Mar 14 – Apr 18, 2022
- Resources for Hope – October 2, 2021
- Breakfast with Friends Online – March – April 2021
- Resources for Hope – October 17, 2020
- Breakfast with Friends Online – April 2020
- Resources for Hope – October 12, 2019
- Out of the Ordinary – July 25, 2019
- Breakfast with Friends – March 28th, 2019
- Cancer Lifeline Happy Hour 2019
- Out of the Ordinary – July 13th, 2018
- Cancer Lifeline Happy Hour 2018
