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Steps for Healing 5K Supporting CBC

Sat November 15 - Sun November 16, 2025
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Michael Cassel

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$2,851

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Why I support the CBC

As a teenager, the idea of loss is abstract. You know that no one lives forever but you still think you are going to grow up with everyone you love always being around. One day, maybe someone will pass away but that will be after a full lifetime of experiences with them. For me, that reality changed when I lost my father a week after my 14th birthday to his battle with cancer. 

While loss is something everyone deals with, going through it as a teenager is all the more difficult when so few share similar life experiences. Coincidentally, mere months before I suffered the loss of my dad, my sister-in-law, Mindy Cassel, started the CBC. I was initially skeptical of the idea of joining but, once I did, I experience true empathy for the first time--other kids going through the same thing as me was a truly powerful realization.

I grew from one of the original-ish members to being part of the first class of teen facilitators and have remained active ever since. Now, I am proud to sit on the board of directors to ensure the CBC continues on its forward trajectory of care and empathy for kids, like I was, who are experiencing loss far too soon in their lives.

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$2,851 Raised By 29 Donors

$375 on behalf of James Clarke
$150 on behalf of James and Amanda Mitchell
$125 from Anonymous
$125 on behalf of Craig Drillich
$125 on behalf of Daniel Simon
$125 on behalf of Elizabeth Russo
$125 on behalf of Eyal Ben-Maier
$125 on behalf of Jim and Dave DelVecchio
$125 on behalf of John P Waligora
$125 on behalf of Michael Cassel
$125 from Anonymous
$125 on behalf of Stephen Sarasohn
$100 on behalf of Brian Riley
$100 on behalf of Christina Hudson-Flores
$100 on behalf of Christopher Kirwan
$100 on behalf of Curtis Hutchens
$100 on behalf of Stefan Furnica
$100 on behalf of TERRY BRISSON
$50 on behalf of Debra Martinez
$50 on behalf of Donald Phillips
$50 on behalf of Geoffrey Gilbert
$50 on behalf of Luca Kantro
$50 on behalf of Marisol Estremera
$50 on behalf of Nancy Dominguez
$50 on behalf of Nicole Sodano
$36 on behalf of Elliot Kula
$30 on behalf of David Murray
$30 on behalf of Marianne Reeves
$30 on behalf of The Felix and Lindsey Mesa Endowment Fund

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