On August 11 Hope Funds for Cancer Reseach held a very special brunch in a Garden Pavilion at the historic Newport RI mansion, The Elms. This Brunch was in honor of 12 individuals who have made Named Fellowships to Hope Funds. The organization calculates that Name Fellowships have totaled $3.7 million and accounted for more than one-third of the postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by Hope Funds since 2008 and the funding from these 12 individuals as counted for nearly half of the organizations fundraising and research support.
The Named Gift donors were acknowledged as "a small, elite and mighty group that has made the single biggest impact for Hope Funds ability to fund cancer research,“ by Leah Rush Cann, Chair of the Executive Committee.
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On Sunday afternoon, proceeding the Name Gift Brunch, a gathering was held at a private estate in Newport RI that included Named Gift Recipients, Major Donors, reserch Fellows and Alumni along with Trustees. It was a magical afternoon in a private “Gilded Age” setting.
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