A Gala of Grace - Wednesday, June 26th, 2024
Join us in supporting the Leelanau County Cancer Foundation for an enchanting evening filled with entertainment, delectable cuisine, refreshing beverages, and captivating live and silent auctions. Your dedication helps us to alleviate the daily burdens faced by families grappling with the emotional, physical, and financial challenges of cancer.
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Our Mission
To help improve the quality of life for Leelanau County residents and their families who are touched by cancer.
Lives We’ve Touched
Our Goals
We focus on help, which sustains hope in families who are touched by cancer. Knowing your neighbors care and are cheering you on, and that some expenses will be covered, can be a huge comfort. Here are a few ways that we can help our neighbors in their time of need.
regular expenses
Mortgage payments, rent payments, utility bills and child care expenses don’t disappear when a medical crisis occurs. But the threat of eviction or foreclosure looms especially large when someone is also fighting a serious disease. LCCF focuses on helping our residents by alleviating some of those costs.
Insurance and well being
Auto insurance and health insurance are crucial expenses as are the costs of dental care. Are you faced with paying your regular insurance bills, but because of your medical expenses there isn’t enough? LCCF can help.
home and lawn maintenance and auto repairs
Cancer can be disabling: Patients may not be able to do all that they used to around the house and yard. Family members are often stretched to the maximum with caregiving. Getting that car repaired or accepting a gas card can be essential to make it to important medical appointments.
travel costs
Munson Medical Center’s Cowell Family Cancer Center provides state-of-the-art oncology care, but there are times when a patient may be referred for care elsewhere, or may choose it. LCCF helps with the cost of travel and lodging.
Our Impact
Since 2016 the Leelanau County Cancer Foundation has provided funds for neighbors touched by cancer for their non-medical expenses. These payments can be a source of relief for patients and their families. We contribute toward household expenses like rent and mortgage payments, auto insurance and repairs, gasoline, dental bills, health insurance, utilities, child care, home and lawn maintenance. We also help with the cost of travel and lodging for distant care. When you contribute to the LCCF, that help goes directly to your neighbors… people who live in your community.
Money Goes Directly to Our Neighbors
40 grants in 2019
A cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming. There’s the natural fear that accompanies hearing “You have cancer,” as well as the weariness and anxiety of treatment. LCCF focuses on helping relieve some of the financial stress so that patients and their families can focus on healing.
Eight Years of Local Support
relieving the pressure
We all have had times in our lives when we felt overwhelmed and anxious. For cancer patients and their families those feelings can increase dramatically and that’s where LCCF can help. As one recipient told us, “It’s hard to describe how much your gift has meant. It has somehow made me feel stronger.”
The Need Never Ends
Families Impacted
In just one year, from March 2018 to March 2019, Munson Medical Center diagnosed 122 Leelanau County residents with cancer — and that’s just the cases that were diagnosed locally. The help people receive from LCCF is a reminder that they are not alone and that their neighbors are rooting for them, cheering them on in their journey.
words to remember
“Cancer is a word, not a sentence.”
– John Diamond
british journalist and broadcaster
