BRINGING HOPE HOME 

Bringing Hope Home is a 501(c)3 organization that is dedicated to emotionally and financially supporting local families battling cancer in the Greater Philadelphia Area. They do so by paying bills to ensure that families are able to stay in their homes, with the lights on, heat pumped up, phones working and food on the table during their hard time.

The idea of Bringing Hope Home was started by our founder Paul Isenberg’s late-wife and legendary Great Gal, Nicole Isenberg. While she was pregnant with her second child Gabrielle, Nicole was diagnosed with stage IV Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, cancer of the lymphoid tissue. After all of the love and support the Isenberg’s received over the years, Nicole decided to get all of the “great guys” and gals together for a Great Guys Dinner—a night to reconnect with loved ones, thank them for their support, and raise money for local families coping with cancer. Nicole did not want to keep any of the money from the event for her own family’s benefit. Even when Nicole was fighting her own battle with cancer she was selfless, elegant, and wanted to help others before herself.

One night during Nicole’s six year battle, a young boy knocked on the Isenberg’s door and handed Paul an envelope filled with cash donations from friends, neighbors, and others in the community that wanted to help their family. That night the boy delivered more than just financial support—rather he brought hope into the Isenberg’s home when it was desperately needed

GIFTS OF LOVE FROM TWO

HAND ON CARE PROGRAM 

Gifts of Love from Two in Love

By Roxanne Foster, Director, Volunteer Services, John Muir Health

Recently a very special friend of Caring Hands passed away. Madeline Park had been a philanthropic supporter of Caring Hands and its important mission since inception. Madeline made a legacy gift of $10,000, which we received as part of her estate. In 2011, Caring Hands had received another special gift of $20,000 from the estate of Robert Clough. You see, Bob and Madeline were two very special people in love with each other, both of whom loved to provide charitable gifts to programs that improved the community.

Because Caring Hands is a community collaborative program, a portion of operating funds each year must come from the contributions of organizational funders and generous individuals such as Madeline and Bob. Over the years, other special friends of Caring Hands like Miriam LaRieu and Ruth Steiner, who also believed passionately in the mission of Caring Hands and made gifts an- nually during their lives, also made legacy gifts through their estates.

We give special thanks and recognition to Madeline Park for her generous con- tributions to Caring Hands and the important services our volunteers provide to seniors in Contra Costa County. Her legacy lives on.

http://www.johnmuirhealth.com/about-john-muir-health/newsletters/caring-hands-newsletter.html

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LEUKEMIA  IN CHILDREN CANCER 

leukemia cancer is a malignant progressive disease in which the bone marrow and other blood-forming organs produce increased numbers of immature or abnormal leukocytes. These suppress the production of normal blood cells, leading to anemia and other symptoms.

SUMMARY 

Babies who develop leukemia during the first year of life appear to inherit an unfortunate combination of genetic variations that may make the infants highly susceptible to the disease, according to a new study. Doctors have long puzzled over why it is that babies just a few months old sometimes develop cancer. As infants, they have not lived long enough to accumulate a critical number of cancer-causing mutations. The babies appear to have inherited rare genetic variants from both parents that by themselves would not cause problems, but in combination put the infants at high risk of leukemia. These variants most often occurred in genes known to be linked to leukemia in children.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140219124734.htm