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’s support to win your fight

TBCS’s support to win your fight: You Are Never Alone!

 
The Breast Cancer Society is a frontline organization fighting against the dangerous and ever increasing disease of breast cancer. The organization is providing assistance and support at not only the financial level but is also actively participating in the community programs to raise awareness among women to stay safe from the disease. The affected people are provided with amenities and support to help improve their situation on a variety of levels.

Helping Differently
 

The Breast Cancer Society does not only provide financial and medical assistance but goes for a wide range of research projects on breast cancer. The most popular programs run by the society to help the cancer patients and their families are mentioned below: 

1.    Temporary Cash Programs
The qualified applicants would get the financial assistance of $100 per month by the Breast Cancer Society and can be used by the patient to match his or her personal needs. It therefore is designed to help the patient and his or her family in improving their living style and lending them a helping hand in managing budgetary. It is provided for a maximum of 6 months.
2.    Hope Supply Program
The Breast Cancer Society has also partnered with a number of manufacturers and retailers for the cause of helping the cancer patients. The overstock and clearance items are hence provided as donations to the affected patients. These donated items are provided to the cancer patients as free of charge commodities. 

3.    In Home Care Program
The Breast Cancer Society is also participating in providing support to the breast cancer patients and their family members through the In Home Care program. It is provided by the loving families who want to help the patients in every possible way. These compassionate people morally and emotionally take their side when cancer patients feel alone or are left alone by the society. It is a short term and non-medical program that serves in household activities like bedding change, cooking food, and doctor’s visiting, bathing, and similar forms of assistance. 

4.    International Medical Aid
Through the Breast Cancer Society the best and most needed medical equipments and necessities are supplied to the doctors and hospitals treating the breast cancer patients, especially in the low developed countries. The prevention and treatment of breast cancer patients is thus made possible as the partnership has extended to medical clinics in 10 countries in the continents of Africa, South East Asia, and Central America where the treatments are not of good quality and condition of medical clinics and hospitals are not of good quality at all.

5.    Empower One Scholarship Fund
The Breast Cancer Society is also involved in providing an excellent Empower One Scholarship Fund that enables the breast cancer patients in obtaining their college degrees as it also increases the earning capability of the patients. It is an extremely helpful program.

6.    Hope Scholarship Fund
The Hope Scholarship Fund initiated by the Breast Cancer Society to financially help the surviving children of breast cancer patients in obtaining education. It is designed to cover the education requirements of the patient’s children and thus in turn helping the overall family financially.