By Megan S. Willman
I never cease to endure amazed yesteryear the forcefulness of others together with the ways inwards which i mortal tin start a displace toward positive change. Lara MacGregor is i of those people. She has phase IV metastatic pectus cancer together with is too the founder of Hope Scarves, a non-profit organisation that has touched cancer patients inwards our community together with or therefore the world.
When Lara started handling later her firstly diagnosis inwards 2007, a adult woman she didn’t know sent her a box of beautiful caput scarves alongside a banker's complaint that read, “You tin create this!” Once her handling finished, she boxed upwards those scarves together with passed them to some other adult woman who had lost her pilus to chemotherapy. Perhaps the seed for the non-profit was planted then, precisely it wasn’t until 2012 that Lara formed Hope Scarves. “This was my effort to plough a scary fourth dimension of life into something positive that could attention others,” Lara says. “I could wallow or alive inwards fear, precisely that’s non my nature.”
Five years ago, Lara began working from the spare sleeping accommodation of her home, sending a few scarves a calendar week to other women diagnosed alongside cancer. Each bundle contained a message of back upwards together with solidarity. The discussion spread well-nigh Hope Scarves, together with shortly Lara was adding volunteers together with staff to a growing organization. Today, Hope Scarves has sent nearly 5,000 scarves all over the U.S. of America together with to 12 unusual countries to people of all ages. Each shipment of scarves contains a floor from some other cancer survivor. Lara firmly believes that it’s the ability of that floor that brings therefore much back upwards to the women who have the scarves.
On the solar daytime I met Lara, she had returned from a busy summertime traveling alongside her hubby together with 2 sons. She’s feeling good these days together with is grateful for therefore much inwards her life. This twelvemonth Hope Scarves received the Inc.credible Awards People’s Choice Award for Small Business of the Year from Greater Louisville, Inc. From the pocket-sized beginnings inwards her bedroom, Lara never dreamed this persuasion would hateful therefore much to therefore many. When she moved to Louisville alongside her hubby together with toddler inwards 2009, she didn’t know anyone here. “I shared the persuasion together with wondered how it would endure received. Louisville is an amazing community that has embraced Hope Scarves inwards a agency that I couldn’t select imagined. It was meant to start here.”
In monastic enjoin to fulfill its mission, Hope Scarves depends on the back upwards of volunteers, together with at that spot are many ways i tin larn involved. More data well-nigh these opportunities is available here, 502.333.9715, or at the Hope Scarves office, 141 N. Sherrin Ave., Suite 227, Louisville, KY 40207.
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| Each signature Hope Scarves bow is tied yesteryear a volunteer. |
I never cease to endure amazed yesteryear the forcefulness of others together with the ways inwards which i mortal tin start a displace toward positive change. Lara MacGregor is i of those people. She has phase IV metastatic pectus cancer together with is too the founder of Hope Scarves, a non-profit organisation that has touched cancer patients inwards our community together with or therefore the world.
When Lara started handling later her firstly diagnosis inwards 2007, a adult woman she didn’t know sent her a box of beautiful caput scarves alongside a banker's complaint that read, “You tin create this!” Once her handling finished, she boxed upwards those scarves together with passed them to some other adult woman who had lost her pilus to chemotherapy. Perhaps the seed for the non-profit was planted then, precisely it wasn’t until 2012 that Lara formed Hope Scarves. “This was my effort to plough a scary fourth dimension of life into something positive that could attention others,” Lara says. “I could wallow or alive inwards fear, precisely that’s non my nature.”
Five years ago, Lara began working from the spare sleeping accommodation of her home, sending a few scarves a calendar week to other women diagnosed alongside cancer. Each bundle contained a message of back upwards together with solidarity. The discussion spread well-nigh Hope Scarves, together with shortly Lara was adding volunteers together with staff to a growing organization. Today, Hope Scarves has sent nearly 5,000 scarves all over the U.S. of America together with to 12 unusual countries to people of all ages. Each shipment of scarves contains a floor from some other cancer survivor. Lara firmly believes that it’s the ability of that floor that brings therefore much back upwards to the women who have the scarves.
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| Volunteers from Junior League of Louisville bundle scarves for a infirmary partner. |
- Anyone tin give the sack asking a scarf for herself or mail i to someone else equally a gift.
- Any business, church building group, or monastic enjoin tin concord a “Scarf & Story” drive. If someone inwards the grouping is a cancer survivor, she tin part her floor to accompany the scarves, precisely a floor is non required alongside a scarf donation.
- Cancer survivors tin part their stories on the Hope Scarves website. Those stories volition endure paired alongside donated scarves.
- Volunteers tin attention alongside sorting together with distributing scarves or doing calorie-free purpose work. Regular volunteer hours are Tuesdays, Wednesdays, together with Thursdays from 10am-noon.
- Enjoy a “Sips & Scarves” black out alongside your friends. Volunteers are needed inwards the evenings to attention variety the scarves when a large shipment arrives.
- Anyone tin donate a scarf. The ideal size for a headscarf is 30" square or greater or oblong at 17" wide. (No knit scarves, please.) If yous aren’t certain your scarf volition go equally a donation, delight mail it anyway. Those that don’t check the needs at Hope Scarves are passed to other surface area non-profit organizations. “All scarves are inwards i agency or some other repurposed, reused, together with shared,” Lara says.
- Hope Scarves is looking for groups who may endure willing to sew together scarves to attention run into demand. (No knitting, please.)
- Do yous ain a consignment shop? If at that spot are scarves inwards your inventory that haven’t sold, consider donating them.
- Sign upwards on the website to conk along abreast of ongoing volunteer opportunities.