Walk with purpose. Walk with compassion. Join us at Wellfield Botanic Gardens for the annual Compassion Walk benefiting Cancer Resources for Elkhart County. This symbolic walk offers a chance to reflect and support our neighbors facing cancer.

Explore the gardens on half-mile loops (up to 3 miles) with a special guided experience led by the Garden Director, Eric Garten.

Your participation, fundraising, and donations directly impact local families.

Thank you for supporting Cancer Resources for Elkhart County's Compassion Walk!

On this page you can "Donate", or "Share Fundraiser". If you "Start/Join the Team", you can share your personal Compassion Walk Webpage, where your family and friends can get the message and donate as well. If you were on a team last year, our system remembers you. If you can't remember your password from last year, just reset it, and thank you for your support!

Please help spread the word, and raise funds, and/or donate, then us once again at The Wellfield Botanic Garden located at 1011 N. Main St. in Elkhart. Parking is available directly in front of The Garden with overflow parking just half a block north of The Garden. We will gather at the front of Visitor Center, which is to the left as you approach The Garden. In varying half-mile loops around the gardens, walkers can complete their walk at half a mile or will have the option to continue as far as 3 miles. Special thanks to the director of The Garden, Eric Garten, who will lead us on a directed walk through the winding trails of the gardens. Thank you for Supporting our 22nd Annual Compassion Walk, and we hope you enjoy this reflective, symbolic walk of your neighbors in cancer treatment.

In 2024, Cancer Resources served 176 Cancer patients and their families, so by supporting the Compassion Walk, you are a being a hero to your neighbors in cancer treatment! If you would like Cancer Resources to also send you a Walk Donation Envelope so you can store and record donations that you may receive face-to-face, please call (574) 875-5158 or send us a note at info@ellkhartcancer.org. Thank you for supporting Cancer Resources mission to help your neighbors in cancer treatment!

Cancer Resources for Elkhart County, Inc. (CR) is a private, not-for-profit agency founded in Indiana in 1958. Throughout the agency’s history, UC’s mission has been to help Elkhart County area residents in their fight against cancer.

Formerly the Cancer Society of Elkhart County, CR was originally a chapter of the American Cancer Society, as were most cancer societies of the 1940s and 1950s. Many societies were approved to receive funds from the United Fund (the forerunner of the United Way). In the fifties, the local United Fund did not want to send money out of Elkhart County to a national center, so a faction of the Elkhart Cancer Society chose to withdraw from the American Cancer Society and incorporate it as an independent agency. During the years, the two organizations have continued to cooperate with each other, but the different focuses of our missions have kept us as separate entities.

In March 2018, the name was changed to Cancer Resources for Elkhart County in hopes of better communicating our grassroots founding and focus on helping local cancer patients.

Now, as health care premiums and deductibles skyrocket, your neighbors in cancer treatment have never needed your help more. The blessing of the body of technology that is saving more cancer patients each year is balanced with the curse of the devastating financial burden that many families never recover from.

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