How To Make An Impact On Your Community

Written by: MacKenzie Paschen, WWS Social Club Member Published by: Melissa Ostrowski The Right Community – Walk With Sally Social Club As a young, professional living in the South Bay and throughout Los Angeles, finding a community to impact can be difficult. Finding one that is like minded and looking to give back, even more […]

Walk With Sally Takes Over Mulligan Family Fun Center

Walk WIth Sally mentor and mentee attending a Friendship Activity program day event in Torrance California

Friendship Activity 2020 – Mulligan’s Family Fun Center Friendship- what does that mean to you? At Walk with Sally, we believe that it is an important piece to an intricate puzzle that makes up our community. Because of this, we believe it was the perfect theme to kick-off the first Friendship Activity of 2020. On […]

Walk With Sally Mentors’ Frequently Asked Questions

Matthew & Ed mentor and mentee

Frequently Asked Questions About Mentoring As part of National Mentoring Month, Walk With Sally hosted Heathere Evans, an Advisory Board member with Walk With Sally, who founded Pivot Coaching which blends communications, psychology, neurobiology and organizational effectiveness to serve organizations and individuals with professional development, mentoring and coaching programs. Heathere came by and provided her […]

Staying Connected and Supporting Your Mentee While Practicing Social Distancing

The recent Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led us to uncharted territory with many questions on how to continue building relationships and maintain our community when we are staying home. We wanted to share some tips on how to stay connected in your mentoring relationship in a time of social distancing! We encourage mentors, mentees, and […]

2019 Holiday Friendship Activity at LA Live

Friendships and Families Ice Skating Together On December 7th 140 members of the Walk With Sally community came together for ice skating, movies, and fun to celebrate the holidays! The day began with an ice breaker where we got into groups and shared what we are most grateful for this year and our goals for […]

Mentorship Spotlight: Meet Danny + Bryan

Mentorships & Friendships: Creating Hope In Spite of Cancer Meet Bryan & Danny: Danny is 11 years old and four years ago he lost his mom to stomach cancer.  He’s now living with his older sister and typically keeps to himself in his room, oftentimes alone in the apartment they share.  Danny’s sister found out about Walk […]

Creating A Future Filled With Hope: Liam’s Story

Mentor and Mentee Friendship Brian and Liam together with his mom and breast cancer survivor Betsy

Liam was just a young teenager when he found out about his mom’s breast cancer diagnosis and he found himself continuing to listen to the voice in his head reassuring him that she would be fine, listening to that voice giving him hope. In June of 2017, he was matched with Brian and the hope […]

Walk With Sally Fall 2019 News & Events

Mentees impacted by cancer having fun at Walk WIth Sally's Friendship Activity

Fall 2019 News & Updates   Finding The Fun in Friendship Activities Since we last connected, Walk With Sally has been busy creating an incredible community of support around all of our families impacted by cancer.  During July, Rock & Brews hosted their second activity of the year where mentors and mentees could come together for a […]

Speaking about Cancer within a New Mentoring Relationship

At Walk With Sally, each mentoring relationship begins with a Match Day—an introduction of mentor to mentee in the child’s home. The art of making new friends is often an awkward adventure. The first-time we meet someone can be an unchoreographed dance of fumbling over words and general uncertainty. This is only magnified when the […]

Walk With Sally & Rock and Brews Redondo Beach Friendship Activity 2019

Walk With Sally mentor and mentee at a Friendship Activity

Walk With Sally & Rock and Brews Redondo Beach Friendship Activity 2019 In partnership with Rock & Brews Redondo Beach, WWS provided some spring fun for our community. Why Partner with Rock & Brews? “Why not,” says Rock and Brews GM, Walter. It is so important for Walk With Sally to connect and create partnerships […]