Fashion For A Cure

On Sunday, October 30th, 2016 Theory will be teaming up with  Cory's Crusaders Inc. to raise funds for families with children fighting brain tumors.

 In addition to the in store promotions of 30-70% off, an additional 10% will be given on each sale for the entire day! Whether it be an in store, phone, or email order, each sale will directly impact the life of a family with a child fighting pediatric brain cancer.

 Please consider visiting Theory next Sunday for champagne, raffles, and to see our new fall/winter collection!

 Together we can make a difference in the life of a child battling brain cancer.   Supporting Families, Funding Research!

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July 2016 Financial Assistance Gifted

Thank you to all of you that support us by attending our events & make donations. Last month for July we were able to financially assist 5 families totaling $4,534.49.  Some of the things we helped with were medical bills not covered by insurance, mortgages and loans .  We even got to grant a little boy a wish of an Ipad. These are bills we all take for granted to be able to pay but when you have a child fighting for their life, being with them and not being able to work becomes your reality. People struggle not only emotionally but financially as well! Being able to grant a wish to one of our brave warriors is so important as well.  The purchase of an Ipad may not seem like a necessity to some but when your child has to be taken away from their siblings for treatment sometimes this becomes their way of staying in touch. Being able to face time family and friends is priceless when you are far away due to treatments. They also help pass the time when a child has to been in the hospital for hours, days, weeks or sometimes months.. In our case Cory's first gift he was given was an Ipad. To see his face light up when he received it meant the world to us. He used his Ipad daily to watch movies, play games, message friends & family and to help with his motor skills as his tumor progressed.  It eventually became his only form of communication with us when he could no longer speak and had to use an app called speech assist. These kids are all so very brave.  They are fighting for their life.  I ask that you  please take a moment to visit our Brave Warrior photo album to see some of the children you have directly  helped! Sincerely,

Teresa & Jim Gaudet

Co Founders

Cory's Crusaders, Inc.

June 2016 financial Assistance/Gifting Update

 

To all of you that support us by attending our events & make donations, We Thank You! I was able send out 5 payments to help our brave warriors & their families this month. Last month for June we were able to help 6 families with things like mortgages, rent & utilities totaling $4,605.47. These are bills we all take for granted to be able to pay but when you have a child fighting for their life, being with them and not being able to work becomes your reality. People struggle not only emotionally but financially as well! In addition, we gave $5,000 towards DIPG Research to the Evan T. Mandeville DIPG Research Fund at Dana Farber.  Please take a moment to visit our Brave Warrior photo album to see some of the children you have helped!

2016 Cory Edward Gaudet Memorial Scholarship Recipients

Our 2016 5K Scholarship recipients: Jacob Jackson a senior from Pascoag, RI and Toni Spellman a freshman from Blackstone, MA. Each year we give 2 $500 Cory Edward Gaudet Memorial Scholarships away at our 5K Road Race & Walk (Students in grades 9-12 from any school who complete the 5K road race portion of our event are eligible to win.) Directly following the race we randomly select one boy and one girl to each win. We also give away a 3rd scholarship at Blackstone Millville Regional High School's  senior awards night. Sarah Geoffrey was this year's recipient, selected by the guidance department on our behalf for her Never Give Up attitude and spirit. 

2016 5K Road Race & Walk

We can’t thank everyone enough for your continued support making our 4^th Annual 5K Road Race & Walk a complete success raising over $45,000.  Despite the rain we are so pleased to say we had 450 registered participants with 230 runners and 220 walkers.  Directly following the race we randomly select 1 boy and 1 girl to each win a $500 Scholarship.  Toni Spellman a 9^th grader from Blackstone, Ma and Jacob Jackson a senior from Pascoag, RI were our 2016 Cory Edward Gaudet Memorial Scholarship winners.  In addition, we will be giving away a 3^rd scholarship at the Blackstone Millville Regional High school senior awards night coming up June 2.  As many of you are learning through the years, this is a fundraising event where teams & individuals start months prior to the event asking for sponsors, pledges and hosting their own fundraising events.  We had 18 fundraising teams with our top 3 teams & individuals receiving fundraising awards. The top 3 fundraising teams are as follows: 1^st place team Kicking Asphalt with team captain Amy McMahon raising $7,108,  2^nd place team Angel’s Among Us with co captains Mary Desrochers & Denice Lubash raising $5,641 and 3^rd place Team Depot with captain Tanya Scott raising $4,234.  Our top 3 fundraising individuals 1^st place Amy McMahon $5,278, 2nd Place Tanya Scott $2,904 and 3^rd Place Tracy Bak $1,565.  I could not be more proud of the fundraising efforts of all the teams this year.  I would like to thank a new team Ignite Your Life Nutrition with team co captains Alex & Tiffany Clute, they had a team of almost 50 people.  I would also like to give a shout out to our son Nicholas who in addition to his full time job takes care of our graphic design and website design work. He and his girlfriend Mikayla also headed up a fundraising team Easier Said than Run raising over $2,000. Mikayla thank you for working so hard, reaching out to businesses and getting most all of our raffle items for this year’s event.  Our daughter Nicole had her own fundraising team Never Give Up raising $680.  This year we had two very special teams taking part, Fighting for Emma B and Rhythm’s Journey.  Our brave warrior Emma a beautiful 14 yr old and her family attended our event.  Rhythm is a little boy battling DIPG from Hawaii with local ties. His grandmother, aunts, uncles & cousins joined our event as well. Other mentions Team Got Your Bak team captain Tracy Bak raising just over $3,000 and team Miles for Smiles co captains Jason & Tina Carroll raising just under $3,000.  The support we receive from local and even non local businesses is so amazing and needed so very much.  Whether they are supporting a team, an individual or just sponsoring the event their involvement makes it possible to do what we do.  We also have businesses who donate their time, product and or service to help make our event a success and for that we would like to say thank you.  We had 55 business sponsors this year but would like to say a special thank you to G-Form for being our corporate sponsor and covering the cost of our 5K event t-shirts.

To see the race times you can visit www.coolrunning.com and click recent results, May 1^st and find Cory’s Crusaders Annual 5K

Top 3 women over all: Lauren Dequire, Haley Carrol and Lori Cunningham, Top 3 men over all: Christopher Tringali, Nathan Carroll and Cole Bolduc. Girls 18 & under: Haley Carrol, Megan DeWolfe and Abby Smith. Boys 18 & Under: same as overall seen above, Women’s 19-29 Lauren Dequire, Melissa Branchaud and Rebecca Carroll. Men’s 19-29 Peter Archetto, Isaac Barros and Max Nolan.  Women’s 30 and over Lori Cunningham, Karen Quitzau and Amy Verreault.  Men’s 30 & over Philip Amylon, Brandon Rockwell and Chris Baker.

Special mentions: The band Anger Management and Chuck Ladouceur (sound guy) for donating their time and talent providing excellent entertainment during the day’s event.  Alexandra Dutremble for singing our national anthem so beautifully. Volunteers from the Blackstone Lion’s Club who helped cook throughout the day.  Blackstone Valley Rental for providing us with the tent, tables & chairs.  Consigli for providing the much needed portable toilets and PJ’s for coming down with their food truck and donating a percentage of the days sales to Cory’s Crusaders. Thank you to our road race volunteers and the Blackstone Police Department for providing detail for this event and keeping our runners and pedestrians safe.

Our Winter Gala was a success

Our Winter Gala was a huge success raising just over $4,500 after expenses!!!! Because of your participation in our event, we were able to financially assist 4 DIPG families for the month of February totaling $4,844!!!! With your help we paid a mortgage, a rent, misc outstanding Medical bills, a gift card to help purchase necessities for a family and we purchased an iPad for a little boy. So that being said... On behalf of Cory's Crusaders and the families we are able to assist we thank you for you support.

Winter Gala Feb 20th

Join us on February 20th at The Pines Restaurant & Pub for dinner, dancing & More.  Live music with Blame it on Bob.  *Tickets must be purchased in advance and are available at The Pines Restaurant or by contacting Teresa just text 401-651-3563 or email me at teresa@coryscrusaders.org

Click on the link below to view photo's from last year's Winter Gala

http://coryscrusaders.org/photo-gallery/nggallery/all/winter-gala-2015

Where Does The Money Go? Financial Assistance For July, Aug., Sept. & Oct.

Family Assistance for July, August, September & October 2015. It is because of your generosity and continued support that we were able to financially assist 17 families during the last 4 months totaling $16,139.67 and we have provided $34,717.82 of financial assistance to our families so far this year. Our financial assistance we give varies each month depending on our family’s request. We feel it is important to help out the family or families with whatever their specific need is at the time.   Although we work directly with the Resource specialists at Boston Children's Hospital / The Jimmy Fund Clinic and Hasbro Children's Hospital, we also get applications from people that have learned of us online through the DIPG Registry, Social Media as well as Social Workers and Resources Specialists from other hospitals across the United States.

During the month of July we were able to assist a 16 yr. old young lady’s family from TX with their mortgage, a 11 year old girl’s family from SC with a utility bill and a 13 year old young girl’s family from CT with their mortgage as well as helping with some of their fuel & food costs while they are traveling daily for treatments. The total financial assistance for the month of July was $3,682.61

During the month of August we were able to assist a 5 yr. old little girl’s family from TX with a utility bill, a 6 yr. old little girl’s family from CA with fuel and food, a 2 yr. old little girls family from MA with their utilities, food & gas, an 8 yr. old little girl’s family from NY with daycare and sadly we also helped pay funeral expenses for a 17 year old from MA. The total financial assistance for the month of August was $4,898.45

During the month of September we were able to assist a 10 yr. old boy’s family with their electric bill, a 4 month old baby girl from TX with her family’s mortgage payment, a 13 yr. old boy from Ohio with his family’s rent payment, we purchased an iPad for a 3 yr. old boy in TX and we paid an insurance payment for a 6 yr. old boy’s family from MA. The total financial assistance for the month of September was $3,141.69

During the month of October we were able to assist a 6 yr. old little girl family from Ma with their mortgage payment, a 2 yr. old little boy’s family from CA with fuel and grocery assistance, a 5 yr. old boy from NY with his family’s rent payment and a 11 yr. old girl from MN with her family’s utilities. The total financial assistance for the month of October was $4,416.92

Childhood brain cancer/tumors are devastating and help is always needed for families who are battling.  They deserve to spend every single minute being with their precious child and not having to worry about day to day bills piling up. We can't thank you all enough for helping us help others. You can learn a little more about our children by visiting our photo gallery tab on our website - we have a photo album dedicated to our brave warriors, just click on their pictures to learn a little about them! It is with great sadness that I also have to share that we lost 3 of our brave warriors since my last newsletter. Bianka forever 5, Javier forever 17 and Riva forever 8. Please keep their families in your thoughts & prayers.

Funding Research... Our funding to date has been to support The Evan T. Mandeville DIPG Research Fund at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA.  Evan was a fun spirited little boy who was diagnosed with DIPG in the November after Cory.  He lost his more than courageous battle a year to the day of his diagnosis on November 13, 2012, just 3 months after Cory passed away.  He was 11 years old. Like us, Tim and Aimee, Evan's parents have become very passionate with their cause, which is specific to funding research for DIPG.  We understand how unforgiving this disease is and what it means to find a cure.  Imagine if we could find a cure for the most difficult to treat and devastating brain tumor of all and what that would mean for the advancement in all cancer/tumor treatments.

Together we can make a difference in the life of a child battling brain cancer/tumors.

Teresa & Jim Gaudet

Co-Founders

www.coryscrusaders.org