Funding Families and Modeling Courage

A Breast Cancer Community

Funding Families and Modeling Courage

A Breast Cancer Community

Our Mission

Runway for Recovery provides families with a continuum of support along their journey with breast cancer. We create community by hosting events and providing services that create joy and inspire hope. With shared understanding we celebrate survivors, honor legacies and fund families who have experienced loss.

Our Work

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Funding Families

The Family Grant program provides resources to families who have been financially affected by breast cancer.

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Building Community

Runway strives to build community, raise awareness, and create support systems for those who have been touched by breast cancer.

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Modeling Courage

Our signature event, the Runway Show, celebrates those in our lives who have been touched by breast cancer.

Frequently Asked Questions

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"A lot of organizations tout about their ability to create community, but I’ve never actually seen anything quite like what you’ve created at Runway. The family grants are obviously life changing, but the bonds born out of the Runway experience seem life sustaining for many of these women. It was a beautiful thing to bear witness to, and helped lift my spirits during what has been a particularly difficult chapter of my own mother’s cancer journey. "

 

Volunteer

Thank You to Our Generous Sponsors

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Dan Moran

Dan Moran is a legacy model who dances in honor of his Mom, Laurie, who passed away in 2022. He is keeping alive her strength, her dedication to motherhood, and her killer dance moves.

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Hannah Earle

Hannah Earle is a woman living with metastatic breast cancer in New England. She is a mother to two young children, and she focuses on not letting cancer “take away her today.” Hannah dances on the Runway in honor of her focus to be present, and she very much brings a face to a stage of breast cancer that many do not talk enough about.

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LaWanda Woumnm

LaWanda Woumnm has completed treatment for breast cancer and is living in remission. She proudly dances on the Runway with those who were most vital in supporting her while she went through chemo and radiation. Her style exudes joy and through the colors, patterns, and warmth that she rocks her clothing, she shares that joy with everyone she meets.

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Long Tran

Long and Max Tran are two of the many people that we have funded at Runway for Recovery. When faced with becoming a single parent after the death of his wife, Kim, Long was able to apply for and receive funding for childcare, music lessons, and summer camp. He found that in allowing himself to open up and ask for help, a community wrapped their arms around him and his son, and allowed them a chance to grieve.

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Megan Castro

Megan Castro is a mother of five children who is living with metastatic breast cancer in Southern California. Megan and her husband relied on two incomes to raise their family, yet with a stage IV diagnosis in her mid-20s, Megan’s income was no longer feasible. Runway has been honored to fund groceries, extracurricular activities, summer adventures, and utility payments for this family so that they can focus on the moments of joy that they can have together.

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