Swan for Life Cancer Foundation is now accepting donations online!! This very exciting new feature is available as of January 21, 2013.  We are thrilled to have this option for the convenience of our supporters.  Your donations are extremely appreciated and help us provide programs to the many patients struggling through cancer.  To find out more about the programs Swan for Life Cancer Foundation offers, click "Programs" on the drop down menu.  If you are interested in making an online donation, please click "Donate Online" under the tab marked "How to Donate". 

Thank you so much for your continued support of Swan for Life Cancer Foundation!

We hope you consider attending this very important fundraising event for the Swan for Life Cancer Foundation, The Black & White Masquerade Bash, on Saturday, October 27, 2012 from 7:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. at the Forestre Banquet Center at the Concorde Inn, 1919 Star Batt, Rochester Hills, 48309.  This event will help fund Swan for Life programs and support services that are so critical to cancer patients in our community.  Wear Black or White, masks will be provided - or bring your own!  The evening will include a strolling dinner, cocktails, raoming acrobats, silent auction, dancing and live music by singer/songwriter Steve Acho.  Tickets are $100 each or $175 per couple.  Please contact 248.620.9600, ext. 5 for more information or to purchase tickets.

Clarkston Retailers will host a special shopping night, "Paint the Town Pink," on Thursday, October 18, from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Stores throughout downtown Clarkston will be offering specials and collecting donations for the Swan for Life Cancer Foundation to benefit cancer patients in the community. Wear your pink and come out to support Clarkston Retailers on the 18th!

Swan for Life Cancer Foundation will host a Breast Cancer Symposium at the Lapeer Country Club, 3786 Hunt Road, Lapeer 48446, on Wednesday, October 10, from 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.  This event is free and open to Breast Cancer Survivors, family, friends and caregivers.  The program will include presentations by medical experts and a survivor.  Dinner will be served.  Please Rsvp at 248.620.9600, ext. 5.  

Swan for Life Cancer Foundation will be hosting two Breast Health Afternoon Tea Events in Rochester on October 6, 2012 and in Clarkston on October 20, 2012.  This is the third annual tea for Clarkston and second annual for Rochester.  "This event has really been embraced by community businesses," says Angela Bercume, Executive Director for Swan for Life Cancer Foundation.  Local business owners are table captains at the event which allows them to creatively decorate a table for 10 with places settings and a centerpiece.  "It's great to see each table captain's unique vision for their table and they get quite competitive in outdoing each other," says Bercume.  The end result is a beautifully decorated room to honor and celebrate Breast Cancer Survivors for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is October.  The events are attended by survivors, families, friends and community members.  The attendees enjoy presentations by medical professionals, support professionals and always the highlight - a breast cancer survivor.  Please reserve your spot early, because space is limited!  This event is free and open to anyone in the community.  Rsvp at 248.620.9600, ext. 5.

On a cool, sunny Sunday morning this past weekend, over 100 runners/walkers arrived on the beautiful campus of Oakland University to participate in the Swan for Life Cancer Foundation First Annual 5K "Run for Hope."  It was a very festive crowd who enjoyed great jazz music by local band, Blue Effect as well as air brush tattoos and race food provided by Whole Foods Market in Rochester.  The course wound its way through Oakland University campus with an end that included navigating a bridge and set of stairs!  Prizes were awarded to first through third place finishes in each age category - over 40 prizes were handed out.  Swan for Life Cancer Foundation announced the new Patient Assistance Program which will be launched in early 2013 funded partly by donations from the run.  This program will help patients that need assistance with daily expenses such as gas, utilities, child care and groceries that can become more difficult to meet with the additional financial burden of cancer treatments.  Look for more information on the application process for this program in the coming months.  Thank you to all those that supported and participated in this very successful event!