Providing Support in St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis & Franklin Counties, NY
Gouverneur Breast & Ovarian Cancer Fund
Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 5, 2024
For the 23rd Annual Gouverneur Breast & Ovarian Cancer Walk!
This one-mile non-competitive walk is held annually on the first Saturday of October to raise both awareness and much-needed funds for Breast and Ovarian Cancer patients residing in St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis, and Franklin counties. Every dollar donated assists Breast and Ovarian Cancer patient’s financial needs, including housing, utilities, car payments, medical costs, prescription copays, travel, and more. Each person's needs are evaluated individually to assist their journey.
We are working behind the scenes to make this year's event bigger, more successful, and more meaningful than ever before! With that said, we need YOUR help! ​If you are interested in any of the following, please message us, and one of us will get back to you quickly. We appreciate all you do throughout the year to assist us in helping make others' journeys a little easier to travel.
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Sponsor the walk through your business
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Assist on a committee - Decorating, marketing, sponsorship, outreach, to name a few
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Donate a basket, handmade item, or gift for the raffle
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Support a Walker
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Make a donation without sponsoring or walking
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Assist at events​
Our mission is to address the financial needs of individuals who have been diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer throughout their treatment and recovery.
Every penny of donation that comes into the Gouverneur Breast and Ovarian Cancer Fund goes to help someone who is facing the long road from diagnosis to recovery from breast or ovarian cancer in St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis, and Franklin Counties, New York.
All funds received from donations become direct financial support to someone who is facing a diagnosis of breast or ovarian cancer and needs help during this challenging time; you can have peace of mind that your donations will reach a friend, colleague, loved one, or neighbor.
About Our Mission
Our mission is to alleviate at least some of the financial burden patients face during their treatment and allow them to focus on recovery and healing. Patients receive financial assistance with medical expenses, household expenses, rent, mortgages and car payments as a few examples. Your support goes directly to assist newly diagnosed patients with their recovery.
In 2014, the Gouverneur Business Women's Breast Cancer Walk Fund became a community non-profit, the Gouverneur Breast Cancer Fund, it was established to provide financial assistance to those fighting breast cancer or a cancer that metastasized from that cancer. In 2022, the organization officially became the Gouverneur Breast and Ovarian Cancer Fund, as the name better aligns with our mission.
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We assist individuals who live in St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis, and Franklin counties, New York, by providing financial assistance with household, medical, travel, and living expenses during a patient's treatment of both breast and ovarian cancers.
Gouverneur Breast and Ovarian Cancer Fund and Compassionate Care Foundation are excited to announce a collaboration to assist breast and ovarian cancer patients living in the North Country. Through the efforts of the Compassionate Care Foundation and their sponsors, cancer patients will be able to receive Integrative Complementary Treatments to assist in the recovery and treatment of their disease at no cost to the patient. These treatments consist of Massage, Acupuncture, Reiki, and nutritional education, combining the mind, body, spirit connection.
Through this joint effort the Gouverneur Breast and Ovarian Cancer Fund will be able to provide plant-based products formulated to address common post treatment side effects such as, hair loss, post radiation burns, skin damage and post operative healing in their patient recovery gift bags combined with additional therapies as needed.
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Any cancer patient interested in receiving services or more information provided by Compassionate Care Foundation may contact them through their website at www.compassionate-care.org Breast and ovarian cancer patients may inquire about services available through the Gouverneur Breast Cancer Fund here.
