Channeling Care for Cancer


We have joined our love for the water to help those battling cancer. All of us have swam a solo crossing or a member of relay across the English Channel.

Come follow us swim around Manhattan, NY and later across Long Island Sound, all for a good cause.

St. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation, www.swimacrossthesound.org helps patients and families battling the burdens that cancer has faced them.

To view their good work, watch a short video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG2k6RTOEKo

We have a goal of $17,500, please join our cause.

http://give.stvincents.org/ChannelingCARE



Help Us Make Our GOAL

We hope you can help us reach our goal of $10,000 to the St. Vincent's Medical Foundation. The Foundation provides the community cancer education, screening and prevention programs at low or no-cost for the elderly & under-served. The Swim Across the Sound helps individual Cancer patients on a case-by-case basis with specific needs.


Please note, the St. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation-Swim Across the Sound is a qualified charitable organization under Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please ask you employer about their matching gifts program.


Our link for online donations is:


http://give.stvincents.org/ChannelingCARE


Thank you for your help and consideration!

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Mission 2010

Welcome everyone,

I'd like to introduce to you a group of ladies who love water and helping people.

The swimmers are: Marcia Cleveland, Meryem Tangoran, Elaine Howley, Elizabeth Fry, Marcella MacDonald, Bonnie Schwartz, Erica Moffett and Margaret Peterson.

We all have a connection, a destination... the English Channel.

All of us have crossed the channel as a solo swimmer or part of a relay.

I hope you enjoy reading and following us.

Our swimming missions are:
first on
Saturday, June 12th, 2010, a relay race around Manhattan Island
and later in the summer,
Saturday, August 7th, 2010, SwimAcrosstheSound, a race across the Long Island Sound.

We are raising MONEY to help patients and families battling with CANCER.

Our special foundation,
the St.Vincent's Medical Center Foundation, is based in Bridgeport, CT continues to bring hope and understanding for many.

Please help us channel care.
marcy (team captain)