Kits to Heart

08/11/2026

🚐 Shoutout to Mike for dropping off 44 kits at USPS today and yesterday. We’ve had an uptick in requests this past week, and we still have 19 kits and counting to assemble.

🩵 These kits are packed full of love and care, thanks to our talented volunteers and generous supporters who donate handmade items and items. I’ve especially enjoyed decorating the boxes with punny handmade ice cream stickers that say “You Cone Do It” and customizing requests that mention liking cats with the cutest cat stickers made by a AACPS Service Learning high school volunteer!

🙏 Please continue to help bring hope by volunteering, making a recurring donation, and spreading the word! Learn more at kitstoheart.org

07/22/2026

😍 Throwback to our 2021 water bottle! It’s surreal to think about how we’ve been donating care kits since 2020, and this message reminds me that I really may not know how much a positive impact our care kits have on people even years out. Thanks to this beautiful soul for finally reaching out to give us a much-needed reminder:

“I have been meaning to reach out for a long time now (but somehow there always seemed to be things higher up on my to-do list, sigh… 🙄). I received a Kits to Heart kit while getting chemo at Sibley back in 2021, and it was the only “care package” I got, really. It meant a lot to me. In particular the water bottle became my chemo companion, and now I still use it as my daily water bottle. I also took it with me on a dream hiking trip last summer in Cornwall, England.

Since then I went on a First Descents trip and one of our leaders received treatment at Sibley and got the same Kits to Heart water bottle and care package. ❤

Anyway, just wanted to let you know that and finally say thanks!”

🩵 A huge thanks to our supporters, especially those from the very beginning!! Please help bring more joy and comfort when it’s needed most at kitstoheart.org

FIRST DESCENTS Sibley Memorial Hospital JHM

07/13/2026

📝 I save every single handwritten card we receive in return for the that we share.

🩵 Thanks to our wonderful community of for continuing to uplift those undergoing cancer treatments.

👉 Learn more about how you can volunteer, donate, and get involved today at kitstoheart.org

07/06/2026

🩵 Love showing off all of the unique items that go into our , thanks to our amazing community of skilled volunteers!

👉 Feeling inspired to give joy to cancer patients? Please browse our various at kitstoheart.org

07/01/2026

🥹 Passing along some very kind messages from those who have received our .

🆘 We are running low on many items that help bring joy and comfort to recipients like these. Can you please help? Here’s how:

👉 Shop our Amazon Wish List at bit.ly/KitsToHeart
💪 Volunteer from anywhere! Browse our fun service projects at kitstoheart.org
🩵 Help share this post and spread the word about our cause
➡️ Learn more & donate today at kitstoheart.org

Your support truly matters and makes a difference. Thanks to our amazing community for continuing to help and bring smiles.

06/26/2026

5 meetings. 1 fulfilling day on Capitol Hill.

Yesterday, I had the privilege of meeting with 5 congressional offices to share my story as a cancer survivor and advocate. I spoke about how CAR T-cell therapy saved my life, but also how survivorship comes with lasting challenges that too many of us face alone.

For each meeting, we had 2 asks:
🩵 Co-sponsor H.R. 8839, the Lainie Jones Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act.
🔬 Support robust FY2027 funding for cancer research so more lives can be saved through the next breakthrough.

Our stories have the power to shape policy, and I am grateful for the opportunity to advocate with Cancer Nation for the more than 18 million cancer survivors who deserve not only to survive, but to thrive.

06/24/2026

Surviving cancer shouldn’t mean being tossed out to sea 🌊 and left to navigate the aftermath alone. That’s why I’m in DC this week. We need a .

Today, before our Hill meetings tomorrow, I attended a networking session with more than 100 advocates, researchers, clinicians, and survivors. In one of those unexpected full-circle moments, I met an incredible woman who had received one of our care kits earlier this year.

We are here to stand with the 18+ million cancer survivors living with, through, and beyond cancer, and to make sure survivorship is not treated as an afterthought.

Cancer Nation

06/10/2026

Did you know you can have a free copy of the latest issue of Cancer Today magazine delivered to you? Check out the latest issue featuring our story!

Each box from Kits to Heart provides practical items and a note of encouragement to a person undergoing cancer treatment. Read more about this nonprofit's work: https://brnw.ch/21x3eTL

05/30/2026

Day 1 of exhibiting at our first ! We’re out of our popular “STAY HERE” pins but still have plenty of our new stickers and pens!

It’s been a busy morning meeting everyone from physicians to survivors from around the world.

If you’re here at , please stop by our Patient Advocacy Booth #13000 to learn about our resources that help provide comfort, joy, and hope to those affected by .

Learn more, volunteer, and donate today at kitstoheart.org 🩵

05/24/2026

Kits to Heart is excited to attend our first-ever ASCO Annual Meeting next week in Chicago! As a Patient Advocacy Booth Exhibitor, we’ll be joining 49 other nonprofit patient advocacy organizations to promote our programs, services, and resources to the professional oncology community (44,000+ attendees expected)!

If you’ll be there, I would love to find time to meet and discuss ways we may partner to help expand the impact of our cancer care kits and art therapy workshops. Please reach out to me at [email protected] to find time to meet!

American Society of Clinical Oncology