Tigerlily Foundation

Tigerlily’s Hope Boxes allow connection with newly-diagnosed women to help them face the future, armed with knowledge, resources and inspiration—emotionally, spiritually and physically. We send a Hope Box filled with gifts to pamper, soothe, educate, empower and help women to manage stress and deal with their new diagnosis.

Tigerlily Foundation’s Clinical Trials Program is a transformational initiative to accelerate the delivery of innovative treatments to our patients, with a strategic focus on populations that are facing the highest disparities. This initiative serves to educate communities of color about the benefits of participating in clinical trials, and provides information and resources to reduce the fears associated with the unknown.

Launched in Fall 2020, the Tigerlily Foundation and Guiding Researchers & Advocates to Scientific Partnerships (GRASP) monthly conversation series shines a light on the experiences of Black women with breast cancer through two conversations, #KnowMoreDisparities & #PullUpASeat. #KnowMoreDisparities conversations are facilitated for and by Black women to create a safe space for honest conversations with Black physicians and medical clinicians to discuss their experiences of health inequality, implicit racial bias and lessons learned. #PullUpASeat conversations, co-hosted by Black patients and doctors, amplifies the voices of Black women through candid conversations with non-Black physicians and medical clinicians. The goal is to leave each participant with actionable tools that provide a tangible way to end barriers for patients of color and provide clinicians with a deeper understanding of how to support, engage and collaborate with patients.

The #InclusionPledge provides a transparent and tangible framework across stakeholders to identify and track equity actions, holding organizations accountable to making specific, measurable outcomes that will result in dismantling systemic barriers and co-creating solutions that will result in health equity for Black women and end disparities in our lifetime.

#INCLUSIONPLEDGE:
“We pledge to take specific actions to dismantle and eradicate systemic barriers, working to end disparities for Black women in our lifetime.”

Tigerlily Foundation’s BREATHE Tv is a sacred space, an educational and inspirational breast cancer lifestyle web series that brings together patients, providers and loved ones in a space of purpose, while engaging in authentic and meaningful conversations about cancer.

In 2009, Tigerlily worked with Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz to develop the Breast Cancer Education and Awareness Requires Learning Young (EARLY) Act. With $9M per year in proposed funding for five years, the EARLY Act calls for a national education campaign about the risks that young adult women (under 45) face from breast cancer. Inspired by the EARLY Act, Tigerlily hosted the first-of-its-kind Young Women’s Breast Health Day on the Hill that brought together researchers, legislators, advocates, breast cancer survivors, physicians & healthcare professionals to Capitol Hill to learn about, advocate for, and ask for resources, support, funding and improved quality of care for young women – before, during and after breast cancer. Currently, this event has transitioned into a ‘Lobby Day’ for young women, making a bigger impact nationwide and globally.

Tigerlily Foundation’s Soul Peace Inner Reality Transformed (SPIRIT) Program’s is focused on providing young women diagnosed with breast cancer with transformative spiritual resources, that support holistic healing, provide inner peace, and foster deeper relationship with their Higher Power – and transformation – during and after breast cancer. Activities include yoga, dance, movement, sound bath and zumba classes; and an annual retreat.

The ANGEL Advocacy Program provides comprehensive training for women of color, 21-50, who have been impacted by breast cancer. They use their time and voices to make an impact by speaking at events, with the media, advocating with policymakers, speaking on panels, sharing information through their social media channels & engaging healthcare professionals. They are directly involved with developing programs and partnering with research and scientific communities to ensure clinical trials, studies, programs and content are relevant to them. ANGEL Advocates are making a powerful impact in our breast cancer communities, locally, nationally and globally.

Tigerlily foundations's Master Class series is an online educational video series focusing on in-depth discussions regarding Self-Advocacy, Patient Empowerment, Health Disparities, Diversity in Clinical Trials, and Caregivers & Support Systems. In each lesson, we share the viewpoints of individuals who have experienced the effects of cancer in their daily lives. These are patients, caregivers, advocates, and healthcare providers who will teach you about empowerment, advocacy, barriers that exist within the healthcare community, supporting caregivers, and diversity in clinical trials.