yacc annual report 2011-2012
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Young Adult Cancer Canada Annual Report 2011-2012TRANSCRIPT
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Helping young adults transition through--and beyond--cancer.This report will give you the numbers, the statistics, and the numerical breakdowns, but we hope you also get a sense of the young adults in our community and the reasons why your support means so much to all of us.
Take Jamie Carswell, for example. We can’t take credit for her amazing story or her natural ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but we can count her amongst the growing number of young adults whose lives changed when they found YACC.
Jamie was diagnosed with breast cancer just before her 24th birthday. She was a boxer and training to become a police officer, so the pain in her chest was initially thought to be a pulled muscle. For her, being diagnosed meant delayed dreams, moving home, two mastectomy surgeries, chemotherapy, a tamoxifen regimen, other surgeries and complications,
reconstruction surgery, and infertility.
We first met Jamie and her boyfriend, JP, at Retreat Yourself 2008. She says she didn’t think she needed the support from a group like YACC, but it was amazing once she found it.
She has since attended multiple programs as a participant and as a peer supporter where her compassionate nature and incredible story encourage other young adults to live and love life.
Today, Jamie is boxing again and working with the RCMP. She and JP got married in 2012 and they very recently welcomed their first child through a surrogate.
We look forward to witnessing many, many more happy moments for Jamie and other young adults like her!
Thank you!YAC
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Young Adult Cancer Canada Annual Report 2011-2012
Message from the Board Chair and Executive Director……………………………………………………..……2
Retreat Yourself………………………………………………………………………………………………..………3
Survivor Conference………………………………………………………………………………………………......4
Survivors in Action………………………..……………………………………………………………………….…..5
Online community……………………………………………………………….……………………..……….…….6
Shave for the Brave………………………………………………………………………………………………….7-8
Community support……………………………………………………………………………………………..……9
Key partners……………………………………………………………………………………………………..……10
Financials…………………………………………………………………………………………………….………..11
This year’s report will tell you more about the programs Young Adult Cancer Canada offered this year, how those programs helped young adults dealing with cancer in Canada, and how you made them possible.
Table of contents
Financials
YOUNG ADULT CANCER CANADA INC.Statement of Operations and Changes in Net Assets (Audited*)For the year ended July 31, 2012
REVENUE Shave for the Brave $710,197 Other events $64,586 Corporate gifts $183,805 Personal/in memoriam gifts, $41,652 miscellaneous $1,000,240
EXPENDITURES Support $337,111 Awareness and advocacy $203,758 Fund development $183,181 Operations $176,242 $900,292
Excess of revenue over expenditures $99,948
*These statements have been audited by Delloite LLP. Please contact us at [email protected] if you would like a copy of the complete financial statements.
Revenue
Expenditures
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Message from the Board Chair and Executive DirectorIt has been another banner year for Young Adult Cancer Canada (YACC)! Here are a few highlights:
• The ambitious--and equally essential--strategic plan for 2011-2016 was approved by the Board of Directors;
• Demand for YACC’s programs jumped to 167 per cent from the 127 per cent it was historically;• YACC hired a program coordinator and opened a third office in Halifax, NS; • The Shave for the Brave continued to grow and hit new fundraising highs;• Survivor in Action training prepared young adult survivors to lead Localife in Edmonton, Calgary,
Toronto, and Ottawa; • The Survivor Conference attendance doubled for the biggest support event YACC has ever seen; and,• Great new partnerships were forged which will make it easier to touch more survivors more deeply.
We continue to be driven forward by the Increased program demand, the major defecit of resources for young adults dealing with cancer, and our desire to make a difference.
Our Board is engaged, our partners are growing and committed, and we know our best is yet to come!
Always…Live life. Love life.
Our Mission: To build a community of young adults diagnosed with cancer that provides information, support, skills and opportunity.
Our Vision: To empower young adults diagnosed with cancer to live and love life.
Board members
Brian Vallis, ChairValerie PikeMargaret ButtJim Templeton Lynn Healey
Judy Sparkes Giannou Matthew Follett Jim Megann Stacey O’Dea
Brian Vallis, Geoff Eaton,Chair of the Board of Directors Founder and Executive Director
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Community supportIn addition to the activities we organize, we are fortunate to have the support of some philanthropic groups and individuals who choose to support what we do by organizing their own third-party fundraising events.
The Kara Lee Golf Classic, a memorial golf tournament, raised $2,060. Kara Lee Grant was a member of the YACC community, and her family raises money each year in her honour to help cover the costs of face-to-face events for young adults dealing with cancer in Manitoba, like Brandi and Norman Dueck. We got to know Brandi when she posted her Survivor Profile on the YACC website in February 2012. The couple attended Retreat Yourself West 2012 and are now regular members of the YACC community!
Keeping with the golf theme, the12th Annual Charity Golf Tournament took place at Glendenning Golf in St. John’s, NL on June 14, 2012. The day consisted of a shotgun tournament for over 80 golfers in the afternoon, followed by a reception and dinner including silent and live auctions. Special thanks to our awesome TD Canada Trust organizing committee, and to all the volunteers that helped make this event a success. The event raised over $27,000!
For the second year in a row, Hammerhead Motorsports participated in Targa Newfoundland with two things in mind: raise money to support charities they believe in and have an unforgettable experience. This year, Dean Novak, Rob Hansen, Brent Layton, and Richard Billard took on the tumultuous landscape and made a donation of $3,650!
Tanya and Chris Michel, members of the YACC community, held the Life is Different Gala in Red Deer, AB on September 10, 2011. The semi-formal event raised $6,858 and featured a silent auction and a performance of Cancer Can’t Dance Like This, a hilarious one-man show by Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma survivor Daniel Stolfi.
In November 2011, Carolyn Norberg, the owner and operator of the NL-based Red House Soups, held a soup auction to raise money for YACC. They made cod chowder, a recipe outside of their regular offering, and invited people to bid on the bottles. The auction of the 24 jars raised $908.50!
Darryl Gorman was one of Geoff’s first cancer buddies, and he lost his battle with testicular cancer in 1999 when he was just 16. The 11th Annual Darryl Gorman Memorial Walk raised $7,323, which brings their running total up over $55,000!
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Retreat Yourself
Retreat Yourself is YACC’s original face-to-face program, and we are proud to say research has proven that it definitively improves the quality of life for young adults dealing with cancer in Canada.
There were two Retreat Yourself events this year—Retreat Yourself West and Retreat Yourself East—and both were filled with lots of love; community building; and more fun than one would expect to find at a cancer “camp.”
Overall, 50 young adult cancer survivors and their supporters had life-changing experiences next to the mountains in Alberta or the ocean in Nova Scotia.
Health Professional spotlightRetreat Yourself West was the first exposure Scott Blanchard, R.N., had to YACC’s community. Scott works at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary, AB and became interested in getting involved with YACC when a colleague delivered a presentation on the organization.
“I’m so grateful to be a part of the YACC family and to have met such amazing people. I look forward to seeing old friends and connecting with new ‘rock stars’ at Survivor Conference 2012!”
Learn more at: youngadultcancer.ca/retreat_yourself
“Such a great experience. I already cherish the friendships I’ve found. The setting was so amazing. The talking was needed, and the laughter was easy! Thank you! Thank You!”
– Retreat Yourself East 2012
“Beautiful! I don’t know how else to put it! This weekend changed my life. I feel empowered to make some changes and live my life as present and full as possible.”
– Retreat Yourself West 2012
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We award the TD Bravest School Banner to the school where the highest percentage of students Shave. It’s not about money or raw numbers, it’s the fairest way we have found to measure and acknowledge a group effort.
Hazelwood Elementary in St. John’s is this year’s Bravest School after 16.93 per cent of their students went under the clippers at their 2nd annual event. Way to go!
We look forward to having more schools sign up and expanding The Bravest School Challenge across the country next year!
As far as we’re concerned, everyone involved with the 7th Annual Shave for the Brave is a winner. We wouldn’t have had such a successful year without each and every Shaver, Mane Mama, Head Hunter, donor, sponsor, volunteer, link-sharer, and word-spreader.
We hope you all enjoy being a part of this community and that we’ll see you again in 2013 as we continue working together to help young adult cancer survivors make the rest of their lives the best of their lives! While we appreciate all of you with our whole hearts, here’s your competition for next year:
Top fundraising individuals in Canada
Christian Legge really “got his head into it” for his sixth consecutive Shave and was crowned the top fundraiser with an outstanding total of $14,225!
2nd Place: Lauren Fridman with $10,466
3rd Place: Jacki Templeman with $10,099
Top fundraising o�ces in Canada
Teams from the Calgary Airport signed up for the second year in a row and blew their 2011 efforts out of the water with a whopping 55 heads Shaved and $29,174 raised.
2nd Place: Nalcor Energy with $15,594
3rd Place: Government of NL Office of the Chief Information Officer with $11,995
Top fundraising schools in Canada
Webber Academy in Calgary came on board this year with more energy and passion than we have ever seen from a first-time group! Their total of $48,463 is unbelievable!
2nd Place: Villanova Junior High with $25,575
3rd Place: Roncalli Elementary with $23,881
The TD Bravest school challenge in NL
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Survivor ConferenceThe annual Survivor Conference is the largest gathering of young adult cancer survivors and supporters in the country—and attendance almost doubled this year with a total of 95 people. It’s a reunion of sorts, but for about half of the group, it is their first foray into a young adult cancer specific event.
Speakers addressed the group to offer skills and lessons on brain fog, the influence an individual can have on change, taking care of your body during different stages of cancer, and ways to be a supportive supporter.
Everyone climbed Parliament Hill on Saturday. The annual climb is part community building, part physical challenge for those who have felt let down by their bodies, part memorial for those we have lost or who couldn’t be there, and fully powerful for the participants.
“As cars drove by and honked, I wondered if they had a
true sense of what they were seeing. Were we just a bunch of strangers in matching shirts? Or were they able to see beyond the surface and appreciate the profoundness of what we represented?” said Shali Manuel, a two-time thyroid cancer survivor and YACC employee.
Learn more at: youngadultcancer.ca/survivor_conference
“One per cent is not zero per cent. Statistics are historic, not a forecast.”
–Geoff Eaton
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Shave for the Brave
The 7th Annual Shave for the Brave was another successful endeavour with more heads Shaved and dollars raised than ever before. We are grateful and humbled that you continue to get behind our cause to help the 49,000 Canadian young adults who are currently dealing with cancer.
• There were official YACC Shaves in St. John’s, Halifax, Ottawa, Red Deer, and Calgary. In addition to these five Community Shaves, there were five unofficial Community Shaves, 33 School Shaves, 32 Office Shaves, and 104 Solo Shaves!
• We Shaved 1,839 heads this year in NL, NS, PEI, NB, QC, ON, AB, and BC. We’re aiming to hit even more of the provinces in 2013!
• Schools from NS and ON came on board for the first time!
• There were Shaves in fire Stations, at an all-ages
event at a comedy club, at the Calgary airport, at restaurants, at a car dealership, and on live TV!
• The average amount raised per Shaver was $380.09; that’s up from $330.33 in 2011!
Learn more at: shaveforthebrave.ca
Consistent growth by the numbers
The Shave for the Brave supports Young Adult Cancer Canada—the leading support and advocacy organization for young adults dealing with cancer in Canada—in its efforts to help young adults transition through and beyond their cancer challenges so they can get back to living and loving life.
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Survivors in Action
YACC decided to bring Localife to other cities after successfully piloting the program in Calgary, but it was essential to have a team of leaders on the ground.
YACC brought eight recruits to Toronto for a weekend of leadership training to set them up to lead programs that met YACC’s standards and aligned with the sense of community and purpose found in the Retreat Yourself and Survivor Conference programs.
Events are held on a bi-monthly basis and have included activities such as movie nights, glow-in-the-dark mini putt, and bar-be-ques; and offer opportunities for informal community building and “social support.”
Localife leader highlight
Hello! I’m Ashley and am 29 and holding. I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at 21.
I signed up to be a Localife Leader because I am a go-getter personality. I was frustrated with the lack of support for young adults in my area so when the opportunity came to make a positive change, I jumped on it! I’m excited to be co-leading with Dan, and to connect with young adults in the Edmonton area. We have lots of fun activities planned!
Hi! I am 28-years-old, and am a born and raised Edmontonian. I have a Political Science degree from the University of Alberta, and currently work for two City Councillors. At the age of 21, during the fourth year of my degree, I was diagnosed with Mediastinal Germ Cell Cancer.
It has been five and half years since I completed treatment, and am now at a point in my cancer experience that I can help others get through the difficult experiences that come with cancer.
Localife LeadersEdmonton: Dan Nielsen and Ashley RoseCalgary: Colin Anderson and Michelle HumeToronto: Peter Laneas and Bonnie LumOttawa: Christopher Chow and Brandon Fong
Learn more at: youngadultcancer.ca/localife
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Online community
There were 125,000 visits to youngadultcancer.ca this year. The main YACC website is the hub of information, opportunities, and connections for our community.
There are currently 146 survivor profiles and 12 supporter profiles on the YACC website. This section of the website gets the most visits and serves as a place for young adults to find others who have first-hand experience with the unique issues they are dealing with and to connect them through email if they so choose.
Goaltender is an online survivorship care tool that is designed to put the power to move through difficult cancer challenges in the hands of the survivors. It offers a place to track appointments, record medical data, and share resources in a secure space with other people who “get it.”
Social networking has enabled the YACC community to grow and stay connected between events and across the country in an effortless, immediate way. People connect (and reconnect) online to ask questions about issues they are facing, share photos from events, and arrange improptu gatherings and meet-ups whenever they find an opportunity.
The online community has been around since we learned how to harness the Internet to connect young adult cancer survivors across this big ol’ country YACC calls home. There is a lot of time between face-to-face events, and a lot of different reasons why people can’t make it out to them, so YACC connects people through the world wide web. Here’s how:
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Survivors in Action
YACC decided to bring Localife to other cities after successfully piloting the program in Calgary, but it was essential to have a team of leaders on the ground.
YACC brought eight recruits to Toronto for a weekend of leadership training to set them up to lead programs that met YACC’s standards and aligned with the sense of community and purpose found in the Retreat Yourself and Survivor Conference programs.
Events are held on a bi-monthly basis and have included activities such as movie nights, glow-in-the-dark mini putt, and bar-be-ques; and offer opportunities for informal community building and “social support.”
Localife leader highlight
Hello! I’m Ashley and am 29 and holding. I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at 21.
I signed up to be a Localife Leader because I am a go-getter personality. I was frustrated with the lack of support for young adults in my area so when the opportunity came to make a positive change, I jumped on it! I’m excited to be co-leading with Dan, and to connect with young adults in the Edmonton area. We have lots of fun activities planned!
Hi! I am 28-years-old, and am a born and raised Edmontonian. I have a Political Science degree from the University of Alberta, and currently work for two City Councillors. At the age of 21, during the fourth year of my degree, I was diagnosed with Mediastinal Germ Cell Cancer.
It has been five and half years since I completed treatment, and am now at a point in my cancer experience that I can help others get through the difficult experiences that come with cancer.
Localife LeadersEdmonton: Dan Nielsen and Ashley RoseCalgary: Colin Anderson and Michelle HumeToronto: Peter Laneas and Bonnie LumOttawa: Christopher Chow and Brandon Fong
Learn more at: youngadultcancer.ca/localife
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Online community
There were 125,000 visits to youngadultcancer.ca this year. The main YACC website is the hub of information, opportunities, and connections for our community.
There are currently 146 survivor profiles and 12 supporter profiles on the YACC website. This section of the website gets the most visits and serves as a place for young adults to find others who have first-hand experience with the unique issues they are dealing with and to connect them through email if they so choose.
Goaltender is an online survivorship care tool that is designed to put the power to move through difficult cancer challenges in the hands of the survivors. It offers a place to track appointments, record medical data, and share resources in a secure space with other people who “get it.”
Social networking has enabled the YACC community to grow and stay connected between events and across the country in an effortless, immediate way. People connect (and reconnect) online to ask questions about issues they are facing, share photos from events, and arrange improptu gatherings and meet-ups whenever they find an opportunity.
The online community has been around since we learned how to harness the Internet to connect young adult cancer survivors across this big ol’ country YACC calls home. There is a lot of time between face-to-face events, and a lot of different reasons why people can’t make it out to them, so YACC connects people through the world wide web. Here’s how:
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Survivor ConferenceThe annual Survivor Conference is the largest gathering of young adult cancer survivors and supporters in the country—and attendance almost doubled this year with a total of 95 people. It’s a reunion of sorts, but for about half of the group, it is their first foray into a young adult cancer specific event.
Speakers addressed the group to offer skills and lessons on brain fog, the influence an individual can have on change, taking care of your body during different stages of cancer, and ways to be a supportive supporter.
Everyone climbed Parliament Hill on Saturday. The annual climb is part community building, part physical challenge for those who have felt let down by their bodies, part memorial for those we have lost or who couldn’t be there, and fully powerful for the participants.
“As cars drove by and honked, I wondered if they had a
true sense of what they were seeing. Were we just a bunch of strangers in matching shirts? Or were they able to see beyond the surface and appreciate the profoundness of what we represented?” said Shali Manuel, a two-time thyroid cancer survivor and YACC employee.
Learn more at: youngadultcancer.ca/survivor_conference
“One per cent is not zero per cent. Statistics are historic, not a forecast.”
–Geoff Eaton
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Shave for the Brave
The 7th Annual Shave for the Brave was another successful endeavour with more heads Shaved and dollars raised than ever before. We are grateful and humbled that you continue to get behind our cause to help the 49,000 Canadian young adults who are currently dealing with cancer.
• There were official YACC Shaves in St. John’s, Halifax, Ottawa, Red Deer, and Calgary. In addition to these five Community Shaves, there were five unofficial Community Shaves, 33 School Shaves, 32 Office Shaves, and 104 Solo Shaves!
• We Shaved 1,839 heads this year in NL, NS, PEI, NB, QC, ON, AB, and BC. We’re aiming to hit even more of the provinces in 2013!
• Schools from NS and ON came on board for the first time!
• There were Shaves in fire Stations, at an all-ages
event at a comedy club, at the Calgary airport, at restaurants, at a car dealership, and on live TV!
• The average amount raised per Shaver was $380.09; that’s up from $330.33 in 2011!
Learn more at: shaveforthebrave.ca
Consistent growth by the numbers
The Shave for the Brave supports Young Adult Cancer Canada—the leading support and advocacy organization for young adults dealing with cancer in Canada—in its efforts to help young adults transition through and beyond their cancer challenges so they can get back to living and loving life.
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Retreat Yourself
Retreat Yourself is YACC’s original face-to-face program, and we are proud to say research has proven that it definitively improves the quality of life for young adults dealing with cancer in Canada.
There were two Retreat Yourself events this year—Retreat Yourself West and Retreat Yourself East—and both were filled with lots of love; community building; and more fun than one would expect to find at a cancer “camp.”
Overall, 50 young adult cancer survivors and their supporters had life-changing experiences next to the mountains in Alberta or the ocean in Nova Scotia.
Health Professional spotlightRetreat Yourself West was the first exposure Scott Blanchard, R.N., had to YACC’s community. Scott works at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary, AB and became interested in getting involved with YACC when a colleague delivered a presentation on the organization.
“I’m so grateful to be a part of the YACC family and to have met such amazing people. I look forward to seeing old friends and connecting with new ‘rock stars’ at Survivor Conference 2012!”
Learn more at: youngadultcancer.ca/retreat_yourself
“Such a great experience. I already cherish the friendships I’ve found. The setting was so amazing. The talking was needed, and the laughter was easy! Thank you! Thank You!”
– Retreat Yourself East 2012
“Beautiful! I don’t know how else to put it! This weekend changed my life. I feel empowered to make some changes and live my life as present and full as possible.”
– Retreat Yourself West 2012
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We award the TD Bravest School Banner to the school where the highest percentage of students Shave. It’s not about money or raw numbers, it’s the fairest way we have found to measure and acknowledge a group effort.
Hazelwood Elementary in St. John’s is this year’s Bravest School after 16.93 per cent of their students went under the clippers at their 2nd annual event. Way to go!
We look forward to having more schools sign up and expanding The Bravest School Challenge across the country next year!
As far as we’re concerned, everyone involved with the 7th Annual Shave for the Brave is a winner. We wouldn’t have had such a successful year without each and every Shaver, Mane Mama, Head Hunter, donor, sponsor, volunteer, link-sharer, and word-spreader.
We hope you all enjoy being a part of this community and that we’ll see you again in 2013 as we continue working together to help young adult cancer survivors make the rest of their lives the best of their lives! While we appreciate all of you with our whole hearts, here’s your competition for next year:
Top fundraising individuals in Canada
Christian Legge really “got his head into it” for his sixth consecutive Shave and was crowned the top fundraiser with an outstanding total of $14,225!
2nd Place: Lauren Fridman with $10,466
3rd Place: Jacki Templeman with $10,099
Top fundraising o�ces in Canada
Teams from the Calgary Airport signed up for the second year in a row and blew their 2011 efforts out of the water with a whopping 55 heads Shaved and $29,174 raised.
2nd Place: Nalcor Energy with $15,594
3rd Place: Government of NL Office of the Chief Information Officer with $11,995
Top fundraising schools in Canada
Webber Academy in Calgary came on board this year with more energy and passion than we have ever seen from a first-time group! Their total of $48,463 is unbelievable!
2nd Place: Villanova Junior High with $25,575
3rd Place: Roncalli Elementary with $23,881
The TD Bravest school challenge in NL
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Message from the Board Chair and Executive DirectorIt has been another banner year for Young Adult Cancer Canada (YACC)! Here are a few highlights:
• The ambitious--and equally essential--strategic plan for 2011-2016 was approved by the Board of Directors;
• Demand for YACC’s programs jumped to 167 per cent from the 127 per cent it was historically;• YACC hired a program coordinator and opened a third office in Halifax, NS; • The Shave for the Brave continued to grow and hit new fundraising highs;• Survivor in Action training prepared young adult survivors to lead Localife in Edmonton, Calgary,
Toronto, and Ottawa; • The Survivor Conference attendance doubled for the biggest support event YACC has ever seen; and,• Great new partnerships were forged which will make it easier to touch more survivors more deeply.
We continue to be driven forward by the Increased program demand, the major defecit of resources for young adults dealing with cancer, and our desire to make a difference.
Our Board is engaged, our partners are growing and committed, and we know our best is yet to come!
Always…Live life. Love life.
Our Mission: To build a community of young adults diagnosed with cancer that provides information, support, skills and opportunity.
Our Vision: To empower young adults diagnosed with cancer to live and love life.
Board members
Brian Vallis, ChairValerie PikeMargaret ButtJim Templeton Lynn Healey
Judy Sparkes Giannou Matthew Follett Jim Megann Stacey O’Dea
Brian Vallis, Geoff Eaton,Chair of the Board of Directors Founder and Executive Director
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Community supportIn addition to the activities we organize, we are fortunate to have the support of some philanthropic groups and individuals who choose to support what we do by organizing their own third-party fundraising events.
The Kara Lee Golf Classic, a memorial golf tournament, raised $2,060. Kara Lee Grant was a member of the YACC community, and her family raises money each year in her honour to help cover the costs of face-to-face events for young adults dealing with cancer in Manitoba, like Brandi and Norman Dueck. We got to know Brandi when she posted her Survivor Profile on the YACC website in February 2012. The couple attended Retreat Yourself West 2012 and are now regular members of the YACC community!
Keeping with the golf theme, the12th Annual Charity Golf Tournament took place at Glendenning Golf in St. John’s, NL on June 14, 2012. The day consisted of a shotgun tournament for over 80 golfers in the afternoon, followed by a reception and dinner including silent and live auctions. Special thanks to our awesome TD Canada Trust organizing committee, and to all the volunteers that helped make this event a success. The event raised over $27,000!
For the second year in a row, Hammerhead Motorsports participated in Targa Newfoundland with two things in mind: raise money to support charities they believe in and have an unforgettable experience. This year, Dean Novak, Rob Hansen, Brent Layton, and Richard Billard took on the tumultuous landscape and made a donation of $3,650!
Tanya and Chris Michel, members of the YACC community, held the Life is Different Gala in Red Deer, AB on September 10, 2011. The semi-formal event raised $6,858 and featured a silent auction and a performance of Cancer Can’t Dance Like This, a hilarious one-man show by Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma survivor Daniel Stolfi.
In November 2011, Carolyn Norberg, the owner and operator of the NL-based Red House Soups, held a soup auction to raise money for YACC. They made cod chowder, a recipe outside of their regular offering, and invited people to bid on the bottles. The auction of the 24 jars raised $908.50!
Darryl Gorman was one of Geoff’s first cancer buddies, and he lost his battle with testicular cancer in 1999 when he was just 16. The 11th Annual Darryl Gorman Memorial Walk raised $7,323, which brings their running total up over $55,000!
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Partner highlights
CDL Systems has supported YACC since 2006 when one of their employees (and YACC alumnus), Mark Cuss, lost his fight with testicular cancer. Their generous annual gift makes it possible to strengthen the community at the annual Survivor Conference.
Gary Wadden and his team at M5 have been with us from our first steps. M5 doesn’t just support YACC, they are invested in our success and thus push us strategically and creatively. We wouldn’t be where we are without them.
Newcap Radio has been a media sponsor of the Shave for the Brave since 2006 when 99.1 HITS FM in St. John’s, NL signed on to promote the event. Now, Newcap stations in Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Alberta also help spread the word and get people to the events.
The Canadian Cancer Society Alberta/North West Territories division has helped grow the YACC community in Alberta and made it possible to bring Localife to Calgary and Edmonton and to host Retreat Yourself in the province.
A&W and its former CEO, Jeff Mooney, and his wife, Suzanne, have been donors and mentors to YACC since the very beginning. Their support motivates us to strive for excellence in all we do.
TD is a corporate sponsor of the Shave for the Brave, but they have been there for YACC from the start. They help organize the Annual Charity Golf Tournament in St. John’s every year, and held bake sales and Shaved heads at their branches.
Nalcor Energy has been increasingly supportive through the Shave for the Brave. The relationship began with an Office Shave in St. John’s, which grew to a company-wide Shave, and now includes a corporate sponsorship as well!
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador granted us another $70,000 this year as they continue to recognize the unique issues faced by young adult cancer survivors in their Cancer Care Strategy.
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Sue Warden and Martin Bentum’s son, Nick, was a young adult who was diagnosed with Lymphoma.
Driven by the issues he faced during his cancer challenge, Sue and Martin began hosting the Harvest Ball in Oakville, ON in 2009 to support the Lymphoma Foundation of Canada (LFC).
This year, Sue, Martin, and the LFC donated $14,000 from the event to YACC which supported other young adults who were diagnosed with lymphoma by helping them access our programs.
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Young Adult Cancer Canada Annual Report 2011-2012
Message from the Board Chair and Executive Director……………………………………………………..……2
Retreat Yourself………………………………………………………………………………………………..………3
Survivor Conference………………………………………………………………………………………………......4
Survivors in Action………………………..……………………………………………………………………….…..5
Online community……………………………………………………………….……………………..……….…….6
Shave for the Brave………………………………………………………………………………………………….7-8
Community support……………………………………………………………………………………………..……9
Key partners……………………………………………………………………………………………………..……10
Financials…………………………………………………………………………………………………….………..11
This year’s report will tell you more about the programs Young Adult Cancer Canada offered this year, how those programs helped young adults dealing with cancer in Canada, and how you made them possible.
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Financials
YOUNG ADULT CANCER CANADA INC.Statement of Operations and Changes in Net Assets (Audited*)For the year ended July 31, 2012
REVENUE Shave for the Brave $710,197 Other events $64,586 Corporate gifts $183,805 Personal/in memoriam gifts, $41,652 miscellaneous $1,000,240
EXPENDITURES Support $337,111 Awareness and advocacy $203,758 Fund development $183,181 Operations $176,242 $900,292
Excess of revenue over expenditures $99,948
*These statements have been audited by Delloite LLP. Please contact us at [email protected] if you would like a copy of the complete financial statements.
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Helping young adults transition through--and beyond--cancer.This report will give you the numbers, the statistics, and the numerical breakdowns, but we hope you also get a sense of the young adults in our community and the reasons why your support means so much to all of us.
Take Jamie Carswell, for example. We can’t take credit for her amazing story or her natural ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but we can count her amongst the growing number of young adults whose lives changed when they found YACC.
Jamie was diagnosed with breast cancer just before her 24th birthday. She was a boxer and training to become a police officer, so the pain in her chest was initially thought to be a pulled muscle. For her, being diagnosed meant delayed dreams, moving home, two mastectomy surgeries, chemotherapy, a tamoxifen regimen, other surgeries and complications,
reconstruction surgery, and infertility.
We first met Jamie and her boyfriend, JP, at Retreat Yourself 2008. She says she didn’t think she needed the support from a group like YACC, but it was amazing once she found it.
She has since attended multiple programs as a participant and as a peer supporter where her compassionate nature and incredible story encourage other young adults to live and love life.
Today, Jamie is boxing again and working with the RCMP. She and JP got married in 2012 and they very recently welcomed their first child through a surrogate.
We look forward to witnessing many, many more happy moments for Jamie and other young adults like her!
Thank you!
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