Grants Available to Bradford County Families with Children with Cancer

March 18, 2008

The Community Foundation for the Twin Tiers (CFTT) has grant funds available to eligible Bradford County families that presently have children undergoing treatment for cancer. Grants from the Jordan Wilcox Pediatric Cancer Fund are to be used to help needy families in Bradford County cover costs not covered by insurance while their child is undergoing treatment for cancer. These funds can be used for a variety of expenses not covered by insurance such as travel costs, housing while the child is undergoing treatment, etc.

There are funds available now for eligible families. Requests can be made at any time. The family of Jordan Wilcox, set up this fund with the CFTT, because they wished to help other families in their time of need just as they were helped when Jordan at 18 months was diagnosed with brain stem cancer.

If you are an organization or physician that serves these families we ask that you make the families aware of these funds. If you have an interest in helping the CFTT disperse these funds please contact us at 570-888-4759 or cftt@stny.rr.com . We have brochures you could distribute to the families you serve. We will be happy to answer your questions and explain how to proceed.

The Board of Directors also wishes to offer residents an opportunity to contribute directly to this fund and help the family grow the number of grants they are able to make available to Bradford County families. All contributions to this or any other fund at the CFTT are tax deductible.

The mission of the CFTT is to continuously improve the present and future quality of life in the counties served by the Foundation. It establishes endowment funds from contributions of many individual citizens, corporations, other foundations, other charitable organizations and government agencies and uses the interest earned from these funds to make grants to the community.

CFTT is a pure public charity, incorporated as a non-profit organization, which has been granted 501(c)(3) status by the IRS. Anyone interested in learning more about the CFTT, in contributing to a present fund or in establishing a new fund can call 570-888-4759; fax - 570-888-2179; email - cftt@stny.rr.com or website - www.twintierscf.org .

CFTT is dedicated to making a difference locally “for good – for ever^TM”