Give Hope That Feels Like Impact

Give Hope That Feels Like Impact

Your gift funds early-detection research, comfort for women in treatment, and dignity for families who need care now

When a woman is in treatment, someone is usually sitting beside her.

That person skipped breakfast. They are living on vending-machine food. They are holding the schedule, the fear, and the hope.

Soup for Hope was built for that chair.

Inspired by Chef Odette Smith — who believed comfort is love — our Caregiver Nourishment Initiative puts a real meal in the hands of the people who stay.

This is a one-year pilot with Community Kitchen Pittsburgh, which will prepare the meals distributed to patients and caregivers navigating cancer care.

This is not a camera in a lab.

This is food, dignity, and support next to care.

What your gift funds

Meals for caregivers during treatment days
Comfort that says: you are seen too
A pilot hospitals and community partners can trust and measure

Jennifer Flanagan, Executive Director, Community Kitchen Pittsburgh:

“Access to nourishing food during treatment is one practical way community partners can help reduce some of that burden while creating an additional point of connection and support.”

Soup for Hope Corp is a 501(c)(3). EIN 39-3723289.

Also endorsed for responsible community health-literacy work by Michael Annichine, CEO of Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation, and Dr. Ronald J. Buckanovich, MD, PhD, Magee-Womens / UPMC Hillman.

Letters available upon request.

Goal: $25,000 to seed the pilot year.

Give once. Give monthly. Keep a seat at Odette’s table.

Caregiver Nourishment Initiative

Cancer care affects an entire family, not only the person receiving treatment.

The Caregiver Nourishment Initiative was created to support the family members and loved ones who spend long hours beside cancer patients during treatment. Caregivers are often so focused on the person they love that their own needs come last — including something as basic as eating a nourishing meal.

Soup for Hope is developing a Food Is Medicine-inspired caregiver support model that will provide nourishing meals, compassionate support, and connections to trusted community resources during cancer care.

Our goal is to create a program that is simple to access, measurable, scalable, fundable, and repeatable so that what begins as a local pilot can eventually become a model that other cancer centers and communities can use.

This work is about more than food. It is about recognizing the caregiver as an important part of the care system.

When we nourish the caregiver, we strengthen the entire family surrounding the patient.

Your support will help us build the infrastructure, partnerships, meal support, outreach, and resources needed to move this initiative from an idea into meaningful care for families navigating cancer.

Food is medicine. Food is comfort. Food is hope.

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