Team Continuum has always prided itself on being the custodians of funds donated to our organization by the general public.

Like most other organizations we do have corporate overheads, though we strive to keep them as minimal as possible. As an example, Team Continuum currently operates out of a home office so as not to accrue monthly rent, or any of the other associated costs of office overheads.

But as we expand we are increasingly under pressure to commit some of our funds to essential services, and we turn to our corporate partners to make contributions for those costs.

Currently, we have raised and distributed, more than $3.5m.  Below are some of the large, and some of the small, programs that we have supported, and continue to support:

	Continuum Cancer Centers of New York, St. Luke's-Roosevelt and Beth Israel Medical Centers
	The Team Continuum Center for Hematologic Malignancies, a $1.1m project. This will be a center of excellence for the diagnosis, treatment and after care service for the three primary blood cancers, leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. A part of the project will also be the creation of The Dr. Carl Henry Nacht Fellowship in memory of Dr. Nacht, who was so tragically killed whilst riding his bicycle in Manhattan in the summer of 2006. Carl was a prolific marathon runner and fund raiser, and it is in his memory that we create this fellowship. The center will be accessible to all patients that are diagnosed with one of the Hematologic cancers, including a contingent of patients that are under-insured or not insured at all. We are very excited that this center will also attract additional funding from other sources to expand its operational capabilities. view letter 1 | view letter 2
	At a presentation ceremony held at the New York University Clinical Cancer Institute, Team Continuum presented a check for $85,000.00 to Professor Howard Hochster, professor of medicine and clinical pharmacology at New York University. The grant was used to provide patient support in the GI Cancer Center, and in particular helped to fund computers and software in the library, giving patients who did not have access to computers at home or their work places the opportunity to do some research on their particular medical conditions. The funds were also used to provide support for a social worker to help patients navigate the system to insure that they were receiving the best of treatment and medications that were allowed to them. view letter
	Columbia University Medical Center was the recipient of gifts totaling $55,000.00. The funds were used to provide support for patients that needed private transportation to attend clinics for treatments. Additionally some of the funds were used to provide emergency private transportation in an ambulance, accompanied by a doctor, for a patient that needed to be sent to the NCI in Maryland. The patient had been the recipient of a bone marrow transplant and was non-responsive. This was a life saving situation and a decision to fund the ambulance was given in less than 5 minutes. Within half an hour of the call for help the patient was on his way to the NCI. Additional funds were used to set up a patient communications data base allowing patients to correspond with each other, and compare notes on their treatments. We have consistently found that support groups for patients are as valuable as medications when in comes to helping patients feel better. view letter
	Beth Israel Medical Center Supportive Services – Team Continuum have agreed to a two year grant to Supportive Services, including social workers and nutritionists. With the most recent cutbacks in Federal and State funding for Medicaid and Medicare funding we are consistently finding that hospitals, in order to meet their budget guidelines, are cutting back on what they consider “non-essential services” invariably these services include such things as social workers and nutritionists. Inevitably it is the patients from the low-income families that suffer because these are the patients in the most “at risk” categories.  Team Continuum therefore took the decision to re-instate the social and nutrition programs at Beth Israel to provide continuity of service for those patients that most need to be provided with Supportive Services. view letter
	Other major donations, totaling more than $100,000.00 have been made to the International Myeloma Foundation, including Myeloma UK and Myeloma Canada. To The Redesmere Trust in Cheshire, UK and The Wellchild Group in Cheltenham, UK. To the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and many others. view letter

In addition to the big donations we also make many smaller, single or one-off, donations. These are usually made to patients or patients’ families to help with some of the other hardships that they may be experiencing in addition to their cancers. This is especially important when the patient and the family are a long way from their home, and may be in long term accommodations, such as the Ronald McDonald House, for their treatments, and inevitably this involves kids.

	It wouldn’t be fair to name names, but we have supported a family of four children and one adult that was living in one room at the Ronald MacDonald House.  One of the children has a Stage IV brain tumor, and has to be constantly monitored at the hospital, the other three children need to go to school and their mother is charged with looking after all of them, and trying to give them a stable home environment. Their father must continue to work at his job in Puerto Rico in order to provide a home for them to come home to one day. Team Continuum offered to help the family by paying a portion of their rent in a small apartment, with three rooms, plus kitchen and private bathroom, we also agreed to pay for after school physical therapy classes for their daughter, thereby giving the family a home experience. The family repaid Team Continuum by having their dad and some of his friends run in the 2006 New York marathon and raised over $12,000.00.  It was a great partnership.
	Team Continuum has also played a role in helping the family of a little boy from England who needed emergency brain surgery in New York. We flew his siblings over from the UK just before Christmas, found them a serviced apartment for 3 nights, erected a Christmas tree and surrounded it with presents and filled the refrigerator with Christmas goodies of all kinds, including a juicy, fat turkey. view letter
	Not all of the stories have a happy ending. This past year, 2006, we have lost five patients that we were helping to take care of, including Hazen.  Everyone knew of Hazen, the kid from Hell’s Kitchen. He had been suffering from Neuroblastoma for almost 2 years. He lost his fight for life on the 1st of November 2006, All Saints Day.  During that long fight Team Continuum was constantly there for him and his family, we would urge you to read the letters that were received from his Mum and Dad.  It is in his memory that we will continue to provide support for kids and their families like Hazen. view letter

From school books to personal laptops, nutritional supplements to natural medicines, theater tickets and rides in high speed sports cars, holiday gifts and birthday treats. Team Continuum has had the sincere pleasure to provide patients from all over the world with some of the little things in life that make a big difference in their treatment.

With your continued generosity we will continue to provide assistance to patients and families that need our support, as well as our ever expanding network of support for large patient care programs in some of the best treatment facilities in the world. We will also continue to provide support for other 501(c)(3) foundations that endeavor to make a difference in the quality of life of the cancer patient and their families.

We are very grateful to everyone who has supported us thus far, not only for your donations, but also for your trust in allowing us to be custodians of the funds that we hope are applied in ways that you would all approve of.

Please read some of the letters of thanks that we have received from the institutions and patients that we have had the honor to serve.