The medical bills one can incur from breast cancer surgeries, treatments, etc. can be an enormous burden and extremely overwhelming—factors that can impair a survivor's full recovery. We want to help provide medical debt relief by providing a grant for nominated survivors who meet the program's qualifications.

We partnered with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ to create the Mama Mare Breast Cancer Foundation Healing & Education Center — a serene space for patients and families, with a resource center and a boutique offering wigs, turbans, prostheses and other items patients need. Today our Chemo Care Bags — more than 100 delivered so far — continue that promise of comfort within healing, carrying on the kindness and caring that is the legacy of Mary Ellen Pernice.

Besides the grueling treatments, people forget that reminders of the cancer are everywhere. The appointments on the calendar, the scan films on the counter, the phone calls from nurses and insurance companies. We cannot take their cancer away, but we can take a world of pain and despair and give it light and hope. Our Jilly Bean Dream Trip gives families facing breast cancer the chance to escape the world of cancer and enjoy a real break together.