In Case You Missed It | Program August 2022
August 3, 2022 Surf Day Walk With Sally partners with the Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation to host 120 attendees including families, mentors, volunteers, Walk With Sally program staff, and Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation staff for its annual day at the beach. Children filled with anticipation watch surfing videos all week to prepare. The day opens […]
In Case You Missed It | Program February 2022
March 2, 2022 Written by: Jen Tomo, Program Coordinator at Walk With Sally Mentor Roundtable Walk With Sally hosts a quarterly Mentor Roundtable where are mentors come together to discuss the challenges in their friendship, gain insight and advice from one another and reconnect. The first Mentor Roundtable of 2022 was led by Walk With […]
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 Mentors’ Frequently Asked Questions
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 […]
Mentor of the Year 2020
Walk With Sally’s 2020 Mentor of the Year Award Walk With Sally is honored to announce our 2020 Mentor of the Year! Maurice has become a fixture in our community and has been an incredible mentor and supporter of WWS! Thank you for all that you do Maurice! Bonded by Cancer Maurice lost his stepfather […]
Putting the Men in Mentoring
Men Who Mentor: Meet Peter In honor of National Mentoring Month, Walk With Sally is honoring all of our mentors who contribute to our organization! We are so grateful for our volunteer mentors and all that they contribute to the Walk With Sally community. One mentor, Peter Phelps, is a cancer survivor, and just celebrated […]
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 […]
The Virgen Family: Community Support For The Whole Family
Finding Out About Cancer When the Virgen family found out that Flora had stage 4 Breast Cancer, it was time for them to come together as a family, but they also wanted to make sure their kids had support. Not knowing where to turn or even how to talk to their kids about cancer, Ariel […]
Walk With Sally Fall 2019 News & Events
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 […]
In Honor of #ThankYourMentor Day
What does a Friendship mean to a child? On January 11th, “I Am A Mentor” Day, our 2018 Mentors of the Year Marlo and Brian shared a bit about their experience being a mentor. In honor of #ThankYourMentor Day, we asked their mentees, Kristina and Liam, to share what their Friendships mean to them! Kristina’s […]
