GiveForward

Dear GiveForward Users, Fans, and Friends,

Today GiveForward hit $1million in donations when Ariela A. donated to Team Nicole’s fundraiser.

Words cannot describe how happy we are to have gotten to this point.  In a little over a year and a half, GiveForward has helped people raise $1million for lifesaving things like chemotherapy and organ transplants.  We’ve helped people travel to get the care they need and covered living expenses while undergoing treatment.  But most importantly, we’ve helped build communities around people who are sick, helping them know that they are not alone.

We couldn’t have gotten to this point without you, our friends, users, and supporters.  So, thank you.

This moment is particularly poignant for me because we hit $1million on my late Grandfather’s birthday.  He was my first investor in GiveForward and the one who encouraged me to follow this dream.  He was fortunate enough to be able to afford treatment for his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, but during his battle he reflected on how expensive the process was and how lucky he was to be able to focus just on getting well unlike his companions in treatment.

Ethan, too, has lost loved ones to cancer.   He knows first-hand how important it is to create a sense of community around someone who is sick.

We could not be prouder of the direction GiveForward has gone in since we hung our virtual shingle in August of 2008.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who have made this dream a reality.

With deepest appreciation,

Desiree & Ethan

Last week, Christopher Buck from Om Times asked me to tell him the full story of how GiveForward got started.  Read the story here in the section called “Lighthouse Calling.”