Raising Money For Breast Cancer Treatments – Loree’s Success Story

Every day at GiveForward I think to myself that I have the best job on the planet, and it’s because we have the greatest community of users in the entire universe. Yesterday I got an incredibly warm email from one of our favorite users Loree Frazitta who is fundraising for her sister’s breast cancer treatment.  Like many of our users, Loree has become almost like a family member to us at GiveForward.  She had written the following email to a magazine editor yesterday in hopes of spreading the word about GiveForward and was kind enough to send me a copy.  With her permission, we thought we would share this wonderful email on our blog:

When my younger sister Nicole, 28, mother of two girls, found out she had breast cancer we were all in shock. Not only was breast cancer not in our family, but my sister and her husband did not have health insurance at the time of her diagnosis.  My sister learned she would need a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation.

Our family wanted her to concentrate on fighting this fight with cancer and getting better- not how much it would cost to do so.  Giveforward.org gave us the tool to do that. It created one place for family, friends and even complete strangers to come together to make a difference. In two weeks using Giveforward we raised over 25K!!!! AMAZING

Not only was the dollar amount amazing-but even more so was the kindness the idea of the website inspired.  Those who don’t know my sister, but have been through a struggle similar to hers found a way to reach out and “pay it forward” to someone whose story they connected to.  We are now at 76% to our goal of 50K for my sister-and it never would have been possible without the giveforward.org team. Even through all of this, both the founder and co-founder, (Desiree and Ethan) , have been in touch with us encouraging us and always being present to answer questions, concerns or just check in to see how my sister is doing.  This website has been a game changer for my sister-and anything I can do to spread the word and possibly help another family, I am happy to do it.  Loree Frazitta (Nicole’s older sister) creator of TEAM NICOLE on giveforward.org

Thank you Loree for the wonderful email!  As always, we’re sending lots of positive energy and good vibes to you, Nicole and your whole family!!!!