My Nonprofit Reviews

Over the years, I read a lot about Crossing the Finish Line in local media and heard about Pete Bossow and Marci Bossow Schankweiler through mutual friends/neighbors. I was instantly touched by the story and the mission. After experiencing the death of a parent at a young age, I knew personally of the unfair circumstances that the patients and their families find themselves facing. I understood the potential for missed weddings, missed birthdays, missed births -- and had tremendous appreciation for the related power of living in the moment as a family free from cancer worry (if only for a week!) I became more involved in CFL to help families through what was one of the darkest moments in my life and to provide them some semblance of normalcy in a not-so-normal time. I got involved to provide that healing family time that so many patients and caregiving families miss whether for financial, emotional or medical barriers. Every day, CFL brings me sadness and joy. Sadness to see how many young adults are being diagnosed. WHY? WHY? WHY? And joy to know that we're giving them a break from this beast called cancer for a moment in time.

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