WHITE AISLE FOUNDATION INC
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
We were established to honor the memory of Rebecca Garrison-Sokoloff, who died of melanoma in 2011 at the age of 34. We work to put an end to melanoma and to continue the charitable work in Cambodia that Rebecca engaged in when she was alive.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
The Rebecca Garrison Sokoloff Melanoma Research Endowment
In 2013, the foundation began a five-year campaign to raise $100,000 for the Rebecca Garrison Sokoloff Melanoma Research Endowment at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. The endowment will advance melanoma research and training by directly funding young researchers. It will:
• provide key training and research opportunities for investigators focusing on leading-edge melanoma work
• help fellows who are conducting leading-edge clinical research to share their findings in real time
• help others learn from their clinical research data
• foster collaboration that will ultimately lead to new melanoma therapies and potentially provide more patients with the opportunity to obtain remission
Daughters of Cambodia One Today project
Support program to provide marketable skills to young women who have been sold into the sex trade.
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Help fund research that leads to more effective treatments and, ultimately, a cure for melanoma.
Raise awareness about melanoma, its treatment, its prevention, and its early detection.
Support retraining for young women in Cambodia who have been sold into the sex trade.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Organize fundraising events and activities.
Provide literature about melanoma and sunscreen product samples at all fundraising events.
Use web site, newsletter, and social media to spread awareness about melanoma.
Collaborate with other organizations to build shade structures on playgrounds and athletic fields.
Work in coalition with other melanoma organizations to raise awareness and advocate for public policies that promote sun safety.
Raise funds for Daughters of Cambodia via a designated Google One Today project.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have a dedicated volunteer Board of Directors as well as other community volunteers to help us carry out our mission.
We are a member of the Melanoma Action Coalition, a nationwide organization of more than 25 community-based melanoma foundations who provide mutual support, share information, and work together to raise awareness about melanoma, its prevention, and its early detection.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We have consistently met our fundraising goals for each of the years we have been in existence.
We have established a melanoma research endowment in Rebecca's name at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
We have maintained attendance and public support at our fundraising events, and increased attendance at some events.
We continue to attract new followers on social media.
We continue to increase our networking activities: Our president serves on the Steering Committee of the Melanoma Action Coalition and has helped organize and facilitated the Coalition's three annual meetings as well as its first fall conference in October 2017.
We have worked each May to help promote Melanoma Awareness Month. Last year we helped promote the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention's Don't Fry Day campaign. In 2016, we helped publicize the Melanoma Foundation of New England's Skinny of Skin training program for beauty industry professionals.
We are part of Maryland's Save your Skin coalition, which is working restrict the use of tanning beds by young people under the age of 18 in the state.
We have sent a check each year to Daughters of Cambodia to support its work.
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WHITE AISLE FOUNDATION INC
Board of directorsas of 04/29/2019
Christine Garrison
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Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes