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 […]

Walk With Sally Honors Veterans Day 2021

WWS Honors Air Force Partnership This Veterans Day On this Veterans Day, we would be remiss if we didn’t give a big round of applause to the incredible partnership with the U.S. Air Force base in El Segundo. For nearly 10 years now, members of the U.S. Air Force have recruited a large portion of […]

Looking to Mentor – This Is My Journey

Path To Becoming A Mentor A personal journey of a Walk With Sally mentee alumni and her goal of becoming a Walk With Sally mentor in such a supportive cancer community. Hannah shares her story in her own words. Hannah’s Journey I was fourteen when I was first introduced to Walk With Sally, just one […]

Understanding Childhood Grief – How Walk With Sally Can Help

How Grief Impacts Children When you’ve lost a loved one, the holiday season can be especially painful. Before graduating from high school, 1 child in every 20 will experience the death of a parent. This statistic doesn’t include the children who experience a different kind of loss— the death of a sibling, a grandparent, friend, […]

Social Community For A Great Cause

Written by: MacKenzie Paschen, WWS Social Club Member Published by: Melissa Ostrowski Let’s Get Social! Are you feeling disconnected lately, or maybe detached from your community? Walk With Sally Social Club could be the bright light you’ve been looking for. Get back out there and support your community! Volunteering with Walk With Sally Social Club […]

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 […]

Hope for the Holidays

Hope for the Holidays – Adopt A Family Program The holidays are a time for family and friends to come together and celebrate. No matter what holiday you celebrate, this time of year certainly has a magical feeling. For many families though the holidays can be an especially difficult and challenging time. Walk With Sally […]

Walk With Sally Summer Internships

Walk With Sally staff and interns at the El Segundo Los Angeles office in Summer 2019

This past Summer, Walk With Sally welcomed 5 new interns into our office. These interns worked with our program, development, and special events teams to learn different aspects of working within a nonprofit organization. Program Internship Kelly, one of our program interns, is going into her Senior year at Loyola Marymount University, majoring in Psychology. […]