Cancer Connection turns 25 in 2025!
Please be a part of this very special milestone, and help us celebrate 25 years of being a haven for people facing cancer.
Help us to celebrate 25 years, and look to the future, where we can serve even more people.
Need some inspiration?
25 ways to help Cancer Connection today
1. Shop at the Cancer Connection Thrift Shop (award-winning local favorite!)
2. Follow us on social media – and share!
3. Attend our annual Harvest Dinner (this year on Oct. 16, 2025) – and donate to our silent auction
4. Ask your work/company to support Cancer Connection
5. Create an online birthday fundraiser for Cancer Connection
6. Walk/run in our Western Mass. Mother’s Day Half Marathon (May 11, 2025 is our 15th year!)
7. Volunteer! We love our volunteers and have a variety of great opportunities
8. Create a legacy: make a bequest to Cancer Connection
9. Plan a reading/screening/concert/bake, book or tag sale/car wash/walkathon/trivia night or other creative fundraiser
10. Tell your family, friends and neighbors about Cancer Connection’s great programs and services
11. Ride in Bikes Fight Cancer on June 14, 2025 (we’re a proud partner - bikesfightcancer.org)
12. Give a gift to Cancer Connection in memory of someone you love
13. Ask your house of worship or children’s/grandchildren’s school to do a collection for Cancer Connection
14. Donate items to the Cancer Connection Thrift Shop
15. Check if your workplace matches charitable contributions
16. Florence Bank customer? Vote for us for Florence Bank’s Community Choice Awards
17. Forward a Cancer Connection email to your friends
18. Donate to Cancer Connection on Giving Tuesday (Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025)
19. Collect your coins and donate them to Cancer Connection (a great way to involve kids!)
20. Know about a grant or other funding opportunity? Let us know!
21. Make an in-kind donation – provide goods or services for a Cancer Connection program or event
22. Buy pins, books, and tote bags on our website
23. Make Cancer Connection part of your year-end giving
24. Become a monthly donor (we are launching a Community Sustainer program – stay tuned!)
25. Donate today by cash, check, Paypal, stock, DAF…. (of course we love large gifts, but gifts of all sizes truly help – and add up!)
Tell us about your idea to support Cancer Connection – we’ll work with you to help make it happen!
Celebrate 25 years of local cancer support with a gift for the future.