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Circle
of Hearts is a Colorado non-profit corporation that is committed to providing
funding, inspiration and education for the healing journeys of those
who are actively surviving cancer with integrative approaches. Our
cofounders are Ben Lipman (also one of the cofounders of Solstice
Institute) and Carla Salinas.
Presently,
all donations for Circle of Hearts or for
any of our beneficiaries must be made through Solstice Institute our fiscal sponsor. You will receive a receipt for your tax deductible donation.
Circle of Hearts Latest News
We would like to announce that Circle of Hearts is in its final quarter of operation, finishing at the end of this year, December 31, 2005. We have succeeded at our mission to empower those with cancer to actively survive with integrative approaches, combining both conventional and complementary methods of healing.
Review of our Successes:
- We have raised over $250,000 in the last 11 years!
- Carla Salinas and Michael Vladeck are living cancer free from end stage forms of cancer! Each of them continues to receive complimentary treatments and therapies to repair the damages caused by their more conventional treatments.
- We have given countless donors of time, love, and money a way to give a gift that really makes a difference!
Our Deep Gratitude
We would like to sincerely thank all of our friends, family, doctors, health care providers, advocates, board of directors, board of advisors, volunteers, fundraisers, and donors. Without you, Circle of Hearts would not have been. Thank you for your generous hearts, time, and pocket books.
An extra special thanks are due to the following (please forgive us if we mistakenly leave you out):
- Our friends at The Solstice Institute: Ben Lipman, the founder of The Solstice Institute and cofounder of Circle of Hearts, and Jonathan Machen, our bookkeeper, for their tireless dedication and support for our mission.
- Sally Sanford, Carla Salinas’ mother and our webmaster, for volunteering to do all the designing, maintaining, managing, writing, and editing for this whole site, while dealing with a daughter who had end stage brain cancer for several years.
- All of the family and friends who were so moved by the personal stories of our beneficiaries and who decided to raise funds for them or to donate themselves.
- Lastly, thank you to the beneficiaries themselves for choosing to not give into the fear (that can be so pacifying) of having terminal cancer.But instead, choosing to celebrate each moment on their journeys of active survival, especially when there was intense suffering . We applaud you three and know you will continue to flourish.
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We thank everyone over the years for your generous donations.
Circle of Hearts is now at the end of a cycle as being a Solstice supported project. Whether or not we continue on as our own independent organization is still undecided.
Feel free to continue your financial support to the beneficiaries directly if you so desire. Your generous gifts are still much needed for their full recovery from the extreme effects of their conventional treatments.
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Solstice
Institute, located at 302 Pearl Street, Boulder,
CO 80302, "researches and promotes a conceptual framework they
call Sustainable Culture, which they consider to be the fabric of
cooperative and sustainable practices, systems and values that together
maximize opportunities and health for all present and future generations."
Solstice
Institute has been generously "incubating" Circle of Hearts
as one of their many projects since 1997. They have been processing
all the tax deductible donations for Circle of Hearts. We want to thank the
Solstice Institute for being such a "good mother" to us.
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