Looking to stretch your charitable giving dollars?  Consider this special opportunity:  Give now to the Froedtert Hospital Foundation’s Prostate and Urologic Cancer Fund and your gift will be matched 2:1 (that is, two dollars for every one dollar you give) by a grateful patient and generous donor.  This offer expires when $50,000 total has been matched or no later than Dec. 31, 2010.

As the area’s only academic medical center, Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin is uniquely positioned to battle cancer through patient care, education and research.  The Prostate and Urologic Cancer Program is distinguished for its physicians specializing in certain cancers (such as prostate, bladder, kidney and other cancers), patient access to clinical trials (the primary way that new treatments are introduced to patients) and commitment to cancer screening.

Gifts to the Prostate and Urologic Cancer Fund have supported important initiatives in the past year including:

• A second mobile clinic for a free prostate cancer screening event at Miller Park, enabling more than 500 men to be screened;
• Participation in a national, 12-site study of high-intensity ultrasound as a potential treatment for some men with prostate cancer.
• A new support group for bladder cancer patients.

In the next year, charitable contributions to the Froedtert Hospital Foundation will underwrite a new outcomes study for the Prostate and Urologic Cancer Program.  This report will be a valuable resource for patients and referring physicians, helping them to make more informed decisions about treatment options available here.

So much more could be done with more funding.  More patient-centered research, targeted toward more effective treatments with fewer side effects.  More screening efforts aimed at finding cancer in its earliest, generally most curable stage.  More support to patients, so they can better face the psychological, quality of life and survivorship issues that so often come with cancer care and beyond.  The opportunities are almost endless.  

You can make a difference with your gift.  Please give today. 

Click here to make a donation now, via our safe, secure Web site.

For more information, call Rick Scott of the Froedtert Hospital Foundation at 414/805-1202 or e-mail rscott@fmlh.edu.

Did you know that Froedtert Hospital Foundation participates in the Roundy’s We Care program?

The We Care program helps non-profit organizations raise additional funds through supportive shoppers who use their Advantage Plus Savers Club card.  A percentage of the total We Care dollars spent at participating stores will be given back to each participating non-profit organization.

If you shop at any of the Roundy’s stores in Wisconsin (like Pick ‘n Save, Copps or Metro Market) you can sign up for the Advantage Plus Savers Club card.  Each time you use your card, the non-profit organization of your choice receives a cash rebate. The amount the organization receives is a percentage of the total amount of We Care dollars that Pick ‘n Save contributes.

To register for the We Care program and begin earning rebates for Froedtert Hospital Foundation, visit the Customer Service Desk at a participating store.  Select Froedtert Hospital Foundation as your beneficiary and start earning money for the hospital.  

If you’re already a member of the Advantage Plus program and you’d like to update your designation to include Froedtert Hospital Foundation, simply visit the Customer Service Desk at a participating store and they’ll help you make that change.

The We Care program provides customers with an easy way to give to Froedtert. Join us in this easy, simple way to give back. To learn more about Roundy’s Supermarkets and the We Care program visit http://www.roundys.com/modules/content/index.php?id=79