Tournament Contact
Colleen Knoble
2159060682
colleen@breathingroomfoundation.org
Colleen Knoble
2159060682
colleen@breathingroomfoundation.org
2025 BRF Golf Classic (Militia Hill): Philadelphia Cricket Club | Monday April 07, 2025
Our mission is to provide individualized care and support to families affected by cancer by addressing their most critical needs so that they can concentrate their efforts on regaining their physical health.
Cancer is “one of the most expensive medical conditions to treat in the United States.” When coping with cancer, families are at their most vulnerable, and necessities like food, shelter, clothing, and maintaining a normal home life for children are often at risk. BRF reduces financial toxicity by addressing the families most immediate financial need at the time of referral. This can include payment of a utility bill to avoid shut-off, groceries, gas to get to treatments, or a partial rent payment.
Through our partnership with hospital social workers, we recognized that many families are experiencing a recurrence of cancer and/or prolonged active treatment. For these families, resources have often been exhausted, leaving them without the support they need. To address this, BRF established its Breaking Barriers Program. This program assists in removing barriers to cancer care, without a one-year limit to services,. The greatest needs identified through this program are transportation and nutritional subbasements. BRF provides safe and reliable transportation to life-saving cancer treatments and ongoing deliveries of nutritional supplements.
The children’s wellbeing becomes a main concern when a family member is diagnosed with cancer. We concentrate a large portion of our efforts on ensuring the children impacted by cancer, through their own diagnosis or that of a family member, continue to have positive childhood experiences. We offer annual programs that provide Spring/Easter baskets, Holiday gifts, uncooked Thanksgiving dinners, personalized school supplies and other child-focused support throughout the year.
Once a family is referred to BRF, they are eligible to receive support for an entire year. This support is individualized to each family’s specific needs but often includes deliveries of home-cooked meals and groceries, comfort items, medical supplies and equipment, diapers and wipes, and snacks for the children, BRF ensures all of this support is accompanied by personal touches, including greeting cards, phone calls, and other communication to check in on families throughout their cancer journey–all designed to ensure no one feels alone in their fight against cancer.
We keep our service area limited so that we can provide individualized, hands-on support to families living with cancer so that they feel the love and support of BRF and the entire community that supports us