The Bras Family Foundation
The Bras Family Foundation

The Bras Family Foundation is dedicated to creating a more humanitarian environment for cancer patients. The Foundation has a particular interest in supporting services for cancer patients and in complementing the work of The Robert & Maggie Bras and Family New Drug Development Program at Princess Margaret Hospital. The Foundation also supports, to a lesser extent, selected projects in the arts and in the area of abused women and children.

The Bras Family Foundation will be proactive in its granting.  We will not accept any unsolicited proposals. 

GREAT NEWS!

We, The Bras Family Foundation have made our first contribution and it’s to Gilda’s Club of Greater Toronto.  Specifically our donation has gone to ‘The Teen Ambassador Program’.  Now I will stop right here.  For those not knowing what Gilda’s Club is, please go to their website - www.gildasclubtoronto.org.  But here is a synopsis.

Gilda’s Club is named after the comedienne, ‘Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer in May of 1989.  In her own search to regain control, hope and laughter, she imagined a place where people touched by cancer could go for social and emotional support.  She envisioned a place where fears about treatment and survival could be shared, and where the overwhelming sense of isolation could be overcome’.

‘Gilda’s Club Greater Toronto and Gilda’s Club Worldwide, is to provide a meeting place where men, women, teens, and children living with or affected by cancer, and their families and friends, come together for emotional and social support,as a supplement to their treatment of choice.’

The Bras Family Foundation will not only help to support the Teen Ambassador Program, but it’s Director’s will roll up their sleeves and get involved in some way.

We hope you will share in our excitement of support for Gilda’s Club of Greater Toronto.

Maggie Bras
President
The Bras Family Foundation

Robert & Maggie Bras and Family New Drug Development Program
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