WELLNESS SUPPORT • COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
Wellness bags, cancer-center partnerships, community support, and corporate sponsorship helping patients through treatment and recovery.
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Breast Cancer • Community Support • Healing
A personal journey through breast cancer led to the creation of a supportive community—offering connection, shared experiences, and practical resources for healing.
Quick answer: This initiative was created to support, connect, and empower individuals facing cancer through shared stories, education, and community-based resources.
In June 2025, Siobhan, Chair of Growing to Give, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Through treatment, she experienced firsthand how isolating and overwhelming the journey can feel—and how powerful connection and shared understanding can be.
Definition: Community-based cancer support focuses on providing emotional connection, shared experiences, and accessible information to help individuals navigate diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.
That experience led to the creation of Cancer Bites—a community-focused initiative designed to offer real stories, practical insights, and a sense of belonging for those navigating cancer.
Did you know? Many individuals facing cancer report that community support and shared experiences play a critical role in emotional resilience during treatment.
Hear the story behind the program and the experience that inspired its mission.
Cancer Bites is a patient-support and community-care program created by Growing To Give to provide practical comfort, encouragement, and connection for people affected by cancer. Through wellness and comfort bags, cancer-center and community partnerships, storytelling, donated products, volunteers, and sponsor support, Cancer Bites helps place useful resources and compassionate support directly into the hands of people navigating treatment and recovery. Cancer Bites does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or counseling.
Demonstrated Community Impact
Practical comfort, encouragement, and community care delivered directly to people navigating cancer treatment and recovery.
Growing To Give is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Wellness gift bags distributed through seven surgery centers and an Arizona cancer-clinic network.
More than 100 companies and product sponsors have contributed to the program.
Each bag contains more than a dozen practical comfort and wellness items.
Approximately $300 in donated and purchased product value may be included in each bag.
Cancer Bites was created and is led by people with direct lived experience of cancer, helping ensure that every act of support is grounded in understanding, dignity, and compassion.
Cancer Bites wellness gift bags support cancer patients through a growing network of cancer centers and community partners across the country.
Our Cancer Bites Healthcare & Community Partners
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts • Howard University Cancer Center — Washington, D.C. • Arizona Center for Cancer Care — Scottsdale, Arizona • AdventHealth Cancer Institute — Orlando, Florida • Hawaiʻi Pacific Health — Honolulu, Hawaiʻi • The Bridge Breast Network — Dallas, Texas
Cancer Bites partner Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Cancer Bites partner Howard University Cancer Center
Cancer Bites gift bags prepared for patient distribution at AZCCC
AZCCC staff receiving Cancer Bites wellness gift bags
What's inside GTG Cancer Bites wellness gift bags
AdventHealth Cancer Institute — Cancer Bites partner in Orlando, Florida
Cancer Bites — Wellness gift bags filled with thoughtfully selected products to provide comfort, care, and support for cancer patients.
Hawaiʻi Pacific Health — Dr. James T. Kakuda Cancer Center at Pali Momi Medical Center
The Bridge Breast Network — Cancer Bites partner in Dallas, Texas
Corporate & Community Partnerships
Corporate and community sponsorships help Growing To Give expand Cancer Bites to additional cancer centers, patient-support organizations, and communities. Sponsorship support helps cover costs not met through in-kind product donations, including packing, fulfillment, shipping, program logistics, outreach, and expansion.
Sponsors may support Cancer Bites activity in a specific community or help expand the program across multiple partner locations.
$5,000
Recognition on the Cancer Bites website with a link to the sponsor’s website, plus appropriate program and social-media acknowledgement.
$10,000
Expanded recognition and support of multiple patient cohorts as Cancer Bites grows into additional communities and regional markets.
$25,000
Highest-level recognition and broader association with the continued national expansion of the Cancer Bites program.
Contact Growing To Give to discuss partnership opportunities.
Discuss a Sponsorship Opportunity →Organizations helping Growing To Give put practical comfort and support directly into the hands of people undergoing cancer treatment.
Individual gifts of any amount are also welcome. Donations help support Cancer Bites patient comfort initiatives, wellness products, program coordination, outreach, storytelling, and distribution expenses.
Companies may also support Cancer Bites by donating appropriate wellness, comfort, personal-care, oral-care, hydration, sleep, inspirational, or other patient-support products for inclusion in Cancer Bites bags.
Volunteers help with bag-packing events, community outreach, program coordination, storytelling, and other Cancer Bites activities.
Sharing Cancer Bites with your company, community, healthcare organization, friends, or family can help us connect with additional patients, partners, volunteers, product donors, and sponsors.
Growing To Give is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Cancer Bites provides community support and patient-comfort resources and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
You are invited to join us on Facebook and connect with a network built on understanding, respect, and shared experiences. In this community, people can talk about the fears, questions, and everyday moments that arise along the cancer journey—at their own pace and comfort level.
Here, you’ll find encouragement on hard days and celebration on better ones. It’s a space where you can share your story, listen to others, or simply read and feel less alone. Some people find that offering support to others can also be meaningful and personally healing.
Whether you’re newly diagnosed, in treatment, a long-term survivor, or a loved one walking alongside someone who has cancer, Cancer Bites is a place where you are welcome. Our goal is to reduce feelings of isolation and offer hope-filled connection—not to provide medical guidance or promise particular health outcomes.
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