HURRICANE RELIEF/
Operation Hope Trek
The Every Ribbon Counts Foundation is committed to helping our communities when possible. In addition to all that we do for cancer patients and their families, and providing Wishes through our WISH Campaign, our friends and neighbors in North Carolina need our help. Join us for Operation Hope Trek, and add your support to this desperately needed trip! Collections are being taken regularly for our continual trips to North Carolina to help those in need and to offer support where it is needed. We are working directly with 7 distribution centers in Old Fort, Spruce Pine, Swannanoa, Black Mountain, Marion, and the team at Silverados. There are so many who have lost everything, and in some cases, family members. Please see below for all details. Cash donations are desperately needed so that we can purchase the fresh meat, butter, and food items and other necessities we transport down to the team cooking thousands of meals a day, as well as purchasing items that we cannot get donated (with our retail partners who have let us purchase items at substantial discounts!)
Please note that the complete list of accepted and NON accepted items is below in the downloadable pdf. Please share with everyone/schools/churches/etc and join this community wide effort! We will continue taking check and cash donations to purchase much needed items for the team we have on the ground in NC, many who have been there since Day 2 of this devastating event. Your support is vital for their success in helping survivors find places to shelter, food, and safety, and hope.
If you would like to join our volunteer team and help please reach out!
PLEASE VISIT OUR EVENTS PAGE and share those events as funds generated from them will also help this cause!
Donation Sites:
Venmo: @EveryRibbonCounts
Paypal: Info@EveryRibbonCoutns.com
CashApp: $EveryRibbon
All is tax deductible
Please do NOT drop off USED household items. We CANNOT take them. Used restaurant containers are also NOT accepted.
Medications/Epi Pens/Benedryl/Allergy Medicine is desperately needed.
Yes, We will take expired epi pens.
CLOTHING RULES:
All clothing MUST be in bags or bins and must be separated by NEW or USED. DO NOT co-mingle used and new clothing with tags.
CLOTHING TRUCK LEAVES December 16 so please have all clothes donated by then.
All bags MUST have a label on them:
NEW USED
MALE FEMALE
and items included.
Separating Male versus female is also helpful for our volunteers.
PRIORITY: NEW sweatshirts, jackets, winter hats, scarves, gloves.and in XXXL sizes.
The Every Ribbon Counts Foundation raised over $195,000 as part of our fundraising efforts over the past several years. These funds established non medical support funds, added program support options to the Cancer Support Community and the Pediatric Cancer Foundation, provided support to our last wish trip fund, and helped meet the needs and goals of our partner non-profits and community service initiatives. We work with other non-profits in their fundraising efforts to make a positive difference in the lives of others from Boy Scout Eagle projects to Cystic Fibrosis and the Cancer Support Community. Our volunteers have run half marathons in Disney with Kellsie's Hope Foundation and raised funds to take rescue trucks to hurricane relief efforts in Florida, North Carolina and more. We also spend resources helping cancer patients navigate the system from diagnosis all the way to treatment, and eventually to a better quality of life.
In 2024, the Foundation was victim of an elaborate credit card fraud attack, and had substantial funds siphoned from the account, and as a result, our Foundation President has spent months investigating fraud, how it happened without our knowledge, and the guilty parties (who have also been in court numerous times in California and New York). As a result of this long investigation and team work with various groups and agencies, Every Ribbon Counts has now developed a Fraud Education Program we are now presenting all over the Lehigh Valley. Although we won't see our funds returned until after the court case (4 to 7 years) we are still working every day to raise funds and help others and replace those much needed funds. See our flyer on the events page, or click on the photo here and fill out our CONTACT form!
Your donation online will help us fulfill our mission!
Our continual goal it to fight the fight, grow our Volunteer Leadership Board, spread the mission, and make our community a better place for all!
Congrats to Hunter from Brown Daub Chevy in Nazareth who was the 2023 Auction Champion, earning the highest bid for the evening!
Click on our Facebook link so see photos from past events!
Just keep swimming That is what we do every day to continue to help others! Join us at our events to help us make a difference!
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Every Ribbon Counts Foundation
What we Do
From raising funds to creating community awareness to partnering with other non-profits with a similar vision and mission, the Every Ribbon Counts Foundation works to help all those affected by cancer, help support their families, friends, and create a community that cares in various ways.
The Think Pink Foundation started by Dr. Susan Mattes Bostian in 1997 gave birth to the Every Ribbon Counts Foundation in 2019 with friend Abby Silfies. Now with esteemed leadership of a board of volunteers and partners, we have grown to be more than just a foundation supporting those with breast cancer. From events in Disney supporting the Kellie's Hope Foundation, to a challenge that supported the Cancer Support Community and the Pediatric Cancer Foundation, the sky is the limit as to what we can do with your help.
In 2021 we had the opportunity to work on the set of The Lucky Louie movie, supporting a few volunteers and actors with a dream. This lead to our involvement in The Hail Mary in 2022, produced by A Channel of Peace, where a mom with lymphoma had a dream of seeing her son in a movie, and we helped support that dream.
Last Wishes. Dreams. Education. Advocacy. Awareness. Support. Financial Assistance.
Making a difference when a difference is needed.
The Every Ribbon Counts Foundation is growing.
If you would like to join our Board, donate, host an event, or help volunteer with events we have planned, please reach out! INFO@everyribboncounts.com or call the office phone at 610 703-3939.
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With the landfall of Hurricane Ian in 2022, many friends and family and cancer patients lost everything. EVERY. THING. Our teams got together, collected donations, and made the trek to Ft. Myers to deliver much needed supplies to the Ft. Myers warehouse supporting this rescue effort. This will be an ongoing process as all struggle to survive and recover. Thank you for your support for Operation Hope Trek 2022 and 2023 and 2024, and 2025.
Designing the perfect image for the Every Ribbon Counts Foundation started with a discussion between two friends who have had the passion of making a difference in the lives of those with cancer. From pink, to grey, to laying out how this ribbon would look with the flowers representing all of the colors of cancer was a moment of pure inspiration captured by TJ Bostian as he listened to the vision we had and how we wanted it to come across. From a pencil sketch born out of our conversation of how we want to change the world, we hope this ribbon inspires everyone to reach, share, grow, support, and connect with us in the One Fight against All Cancer while supporting our community at the same time.
The Story Behind Our Ribbon
Pink - The color associated with breast cancer, a fight that Susan and Abby have volunteered for over the past 24 years
after the diagnosis of her mother, followed by her little sister a few years ago.
Grey - The color associated with brain cancer, a fight that has given the power behind the passion for many who fight the fight.
The Gladiola Flower - Strong, Moral Integrity, Loyalty. Has a strong and powerful history, and invokes passion. Grows in many colors, and grows best in a community of other gladiolas.
Our ribbon features the gladiola blossom symbolizing strength, passion, and the power of community.
The Every Ribbon Counts Foundation, One fight, for ALL Cancer while supporting our community.
Our commitment to raising funds here that stay here, creating a positive force for change in the Lehigh Valley and engaging our community to help support all those affected by cancer, provide support and education in our community.
Our Mission
Engaging our Community with the purpose of creating a positive difference in the lives of others through fundraising efforts, education, awareness,
and community support.
Our Vision
Engaging our community to make a positive difference in the lives of others.
Contact
Every Ribbon Counts
To receive information about upcoming events, to become a part of our Volunteer Leadership Board, or to inquire as to how you can become a corporate partner, sponsor, or volunteer, please fill out the form below.
(610) 417-2448