Join our wellness scholarship fundraiser. Cancer brings disruption to bodies, families, households, and communities. We know this because the pain and uncertainty of a diagnosis–of a loved one, a friend, or oneself–touches all of us in one way or another. Suppose you or a loved one have already navigated the chaos of diagnosis, treatment, or recovery. In that case, you know precisely why our self-care tools are essential for those on this journey.
This quick video provides an overview of our current fundraising campaign, why it matters, and how the scholarships we are offering can help.
The video above introduces our Giving Tuesday campaign to raise funds for wellness scholarships for women with cancer and their allies. Those who need or want holistic self-care tools to help them navigate a cancer journey will be able to qualify for free or reduced-cost services.
Help us raise the funds to offer wellness scholarships for tools like:
- mindfulness,
- nutrition coaching, and
- healing practices.
Ready to give? Follow the link to our GiveLively Campaign to donate.
Empowering Resilience: wellness scholarships for women on a cancer journey and their allies.
We hope we inspire you to join our wellness scholarship fundraiser.
If you or a loved one has ever navigated a cancer journey, you know why this is needed. If you can donate, we hope we can earn your support. When you are ready, text CANCERSUX at 44-321 and follow the link sent to your phone.
If you cannot donate now, we hope we earn your click, share, or subscribe/follow. Bring your friends. Spread the word. Grow the love. (And connect with us HERE if you are ready to start volunteering your gifts to others in the community. We need you!)
WHAT: Wellness Scholarships to Boost Holistic and Self-Care Tools
We offer live online programs on various holistic and self-care topics.
- Online Reiki Classes in live groups, with teachers to answer questions, encourage, and help you through the “homework.”
- One-on-one Nutrition Coaching program that will help you be more mindful of your eating patterns and goals.
- Clarity Catalyst is a series that presents science-based approaches to learning mindfulness in a group setting.
These programs will occur multiple times over 2024 (some more than others) and are available to the general public. As part of our charitable mission, our providers offer discounted rates for services through Whole Self Unity compared to their regular offerings.
One goal of this wellness scholarship fundraiser is to offer free access to these online programs to qualified applicants. We would like to have all applicant needs met for any program(s) they wish to attend. However, Whole Self Unity may reduce scholarship amounts to serve more recipients.
WHO: Supporting Women on their Cancer Journey and Their Allies
Cancer patients often have too many demands on them just getting to medical appointments. In other words, we help those healing through a diagnosis. However, we also recognize that one more appointment on the calendar may be too much at times. We seek those on a cancer journey as their treatments slow, pause, or even after they have all ended. Yet, we welcome participants as THEY feel ready.
There are allies around the person diagnosed with cancer who could use a little help at times. These folks are helping support by providing meals, cleaning, transportation, emotional strength, and more. These allies often get exhausted and don’t think they can also seek support.
Our wellness scholarships are available to those walking intimately with cancer (the patients) and those helping (allies).
When faced with challenging work, we sometimes confuse continuous effort with continuous progress. With endurance challenges, pausing for self-care is faster in the end than pushing forward without needed rest. Healing is a marathon, and we teach about mindful pauses.
Our tools benefit anyone navigating life’s demands. We teach and reinforce techniques to nourish the body, mind, heart, and spirit. This self-care eventually leads to living in a balanced center as we navigate fulfilling lives.
We want women who need self-care tools to have access them no matter their role. In addition, we want women who are recovering from their cancer journey to access our services as well. Cancer-free for eight years? We see that you are still healing, and we welcome you as an applicant.
Holistic techniques make a beautiful addition to medical care for the body, allowing healing to spread to the mental and emotional parts of the self.
WHEN: Donate to our Wellness Scholarship Fundraiser from November 12, 2023, through January 3, 2024 – Extra LOVE to Giving Tuesday
This fundraising campaign takes place around Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday is a day committed to global generosity. In the United States, it is the Tuesday after Black Friday (a day that follows US Thanksgiving and kicks off the holiday shopping season). Thanksgiving in the US is on the 4th Thursday of the month, so Giving Tuesday is sometimes in December and sometimes in November. This year, it is on November 28, 2023.
If you have an employer who will match your gifts on Giving Tuesday, we would love for you to consider us as you look for the place to direct your employer’s charitable contribution!
However, if you miss us that day, don’t worry! Our wellness scholarship fundraiser is ongoing from our organization’s birthdate (November 12) through the beginning of 2024. Since we are an online organization, we want to ensure you can access the campaign whenever it suits you until January 3, 2024.
We are a 501C3 nonprofit organization, and all donations are tax-deductible (as the law allows). When you donate through our crowd-funding platform, you will receive an immediate thank you letter and a receipt that provides all the documentation you need to claim a charitable donation on your US taxes. Once the campaign ends, you will receive a follow-up e-mail with the links to claim your free thank-you gifts, depending on your donation level. Thank you for considering us!
WHERE and HOW (CALLS to ACTION): Online Platform and Community Engagement
Participating in our wellness scholarship fundraiser is easy, and you don’t have to donate to lend a hand. Here are some quick ways to help. (Many won’t cost you a cent!)
- The fundraiser is all online and accessible by link at any time.
- Please help us find other like-minded folks:
- Share this blog post.
- Share the campaign on your social media.
- Ask all your friends and to text CANCERSUX to 44321!
- Connect with us and become part of our fledgling community (we’re lonely in cyberspace without YOU!)
- Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get our FREE content.
- Connect with us on socials (buttons in the webpage footer)
- Please fill out the Contact form and let us know your thoughts.
- Join our mailing list (near the bottom of the page). Thank you for joining our community!
- When you are ready to donate, dedicate your donation to your favorite honoree–especially those who continue to journey through cancer or are no longer with us. These honor donations make great holiday gifts.
- If you cannot donate, we offer a 33-day Reiki intention bowl. Follow this link to add your healing intentions for yourself, or others to our community efforts.
- PLEASE help us connect with scholarship recipients. Suggest yourself, your qualifying friends, family, loved ones, or colleagues by filling out a nomination form.
- If you want to raise scholarship funds for a loved one, contact info@wholeselfunity.org. Put UNLOCK TEAM FUNDRAISING in the subject line. Then let us know if you want to form a team and who you are fundraising for (name your team!). We’ll unlock this feature for you and send you instructions on how to get started.
Thank you for your time! Please Join Our Wellness Scholarship Fundraiser
Thank you so much for learning more about our fundraising campaign. We hope you will join us in our current cause and mission. We can’t wait to make steps toward everyone’s healing goals WITH you as part of our team.
