How Can You Make Charitable Giving a Family Tradition?

How Can You Make Charitable Giving a Family Tradition?
As parents, we all want to share values, morals, and traditions that are important to us with our children. It's important, first, to remember that not all giving can be measured in dollars and cents. Giving your time is just as important for many organizations. These are just a few ways you can take ordinary charitable contributions and turn them into family traditions, not to mention beautiful memories.

Select a Cause as a Family
It's important to choose a cause the entire family can get behind. While children's causes often tug at the heartstrings, they're a little tough for most children to wrap their minds around. The Breast Cancer Society is a great option because it's about an issue that touches so many lives in ever racial, religious, and socio-economic group. It's also a cause that men, women, and children can get behind because we all have mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, and daughters who are vulnerable to this disease.

Volunteer Your Time Before Your Money

Money is great. But it's a one-time gift that the family doesn't get to see in action. Volunteering your time, on the other hand, places you in a prime position to see your gifts in action. You'll actually get to see the lives that are impacted by your gifts and that can be its very own reward. Nothing reinforces a valuable lesson in quite the same way that seeing it in action does. If you want to teach your children the rewards of giving, this is your best course of action, by far.

Make it an Adventure
If you really want to drive the lesson home, make it a lesson that's fun to learn. When it comes to lifelong charitable giving and starting good habits young, your children aren't going to get excited by washing pans in a soup kitchen all day. It's just not going to get the reaction you want. Consider hosting a fundraising event if you really want to get them on board and excited about their role.

Choose a theme. Fun, family-friendly themes include things like Oscar night, circus night, mini golf, or amusement themes. Many of these places will allow you to rent them out for the evening and may even provide discounts for charitable causes. 

If your cause is one like The Breast Cancer Society, consider offering a fashion show with modesty-inspired clothing appropriate for women who may have had breast cancer. It can benefit women who are currently going through treatment by raising funds as well as those who have been through treatment by helping them find elegant clothes they can truly be comfortable wearing after the fact.

The key is to get everyone on board and make it as fun for all as possible. And these are great ways to accomplish that goal while instilling values about charity and giving that will last a lifetime. The younger your children are when you begin teaching them about the importance of giving, the stronger those values will be as your children grow into responsible giving adults.

Dealing with Disease; Breast Cancer

Dealing with Disease; Breast Cancer

Imagine that you wanted to apply for a new job, and they sent you to your doctor to get a regular check up for a fitness certificate. The doctor gave you the once down and then carried out some tests. And a week later you found out that you had cancer.

Cancer is a word, not a sentence

Cancer is a frightful aspect of life, nevertheless one that is becoming less and less scarier everyday thanks to modern science and the advances in the health care industry. But while the technology and innovation to combat cancer is emerging more powerful every day, there is still a considerable lack of awareness and motivation among the general population to find out about this disease and how it can now be almost deemed curable.

Breast Cancer and You

Breast Cancer is one of those diseases that has been on the rise during the past few years, and has become one of the leading causes of deaths among the female population. While there is no doubt that cancer itself is very destructive and quite a disaster in terms of a person living their lives normally, suddenly finding out that they have this deadly disease, it is still very much treatable and manageable depending on the specific type and variations involved, as well as the management of the disease in a timely fashion, and according to the standards of the current medical guidelines. 

Dealing with Disease

There is however the feeling of doom and desolation that is associated with the word cancer, and it is here to stay until there is a definitive cure found for the disease. But to talk about cancer without understanding all the details and the many forms in which it can present itself would be akin to a blind man praising a painting. The effects and consequences of the disease cannot be fathomed without adequate knowledge of the disease process itself and the mechanism with which it attacks the host and becomes its downfall. 

To manage the darkness and uncertainty associated with this diagnosis that the people who become a victim to it are likely to fall prey to, a number of cancer support groups have surfaced in the past few years. One of the purposes of these cancer support groups is to collect money to fund the ongoing research that is focused on finding an ultimate cure for cancer, while others focus more on directly assisting the people involved in waging this war against cancer, and to survive.

The Breast Cancer Society; Helping Breast Cancer victims.

The Breast Cancer Society is one of those groups that aims to help the women who have become a target of this deadly disease, and tries to help them overcome all the fears and apprehension that they might have about their diagnosis, treatment and then rehabilitation, since it helps to have someone to talk to who has been through the same process before you that you are now about to go through. You can help the society by donating funds to the cause, and becoming a part of the effort to spread awareness about the disease as well as helping the people affected from it.

TBCS - Battling for a Noble Cause

The Breast Cancer Society - Battling For a Noble Cause

Breast Cancer is one of those diseases known as the ‘silent killers’ that are notorious for spreading internally within the body with a kind of stealth that more often than not, makes it discoverable only when the disease is too far gone and there is suspicion of widespread dissemination of the disease to other areas of the body. However, modern advancements in medical science have bridged the gap between the disease and the cure, but still requires awareness to be spread to the masses about these blessings. 

What does the Breast Cancer Society do?

The Breast Cancer Society is one of the premiere non-profit organizations working for the social welfare of women, particularly Breast Cancer patients, that aims to spread awareness about all the new modalities and forms of treatment that have come forward in recent years as well as taking a more direct approach to helping those suffering at the hands of this disease. The Society is based in Arizona, U.S. and has centers operating all over the states and at international locations too, seeking to facilitate these women by bringing them together to voice their opinions, share their concerns and experiences and support each other both emotionally and psychologically.

How is all this possible?

These purposes are achieved by a detailed plan devised by the Breast Cancer Society that includes revolutionary initiatives like the Hope Supply Program, the many financial aid programs, scholarship funds, and charity walks and community outreach programs to aid in the hearing of these voices and help the women in need who are going to this traumatic ordeal in life.

What is the Hope Supply Program?

The Hope Supply Program is one of the leading initiatives up taken by the Breast Cancer Society and it is centered around the idea that the entire cost of the treatment of Breast Cancer and the therapy is in fact, quite a burden for the average household. To ease some of this load, the program contacts the major retailers and franchisers in the locality and asks them to donate their overstock and surplus items of everyday use, which are then provided directly to these women affected by Breast Cancer. The items are delivered to one of the many Hope Supply centers from which you can browse and select the products which you want. The items available are mostly things of everyday use like household items, bedding, hygiene products, clothing, wigs, bras and prosthetics.

How can we help?

You can help the society by donating funds to help support and propagate the cause, by donating clothes and food items, by helping to raise money for the society, by organizing charity walks and missions to spread awareness and last but not the least, by just sharing your experiences with other people going through the same dilemma and encouraging them to keep moving forward in the fight against cancer, for it is one that we here at the Breast Cancer Society need your utmost help and co-operation in winning.