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Overview
Corporate Angel Network is
the only charitable organization in the USA whose sole mission is
to ease the emotional stress, physical discomfort and financial burden
of travel for cancer patients by arranging free flights to treatment
centers, using the empty seats on corporate aircraft flying on routine
business.
Based in White Plains, NY, Corporate Angel Network occupies an office
donated by the Westchester County Airport. 50 part-time volunteers
and five paid staff work with patients, physicians, corporations,
flight departments and leading treatment facilities to arrange 2,500
flights a year.
Eligibility to participate in our program is open to all cancer patients,
bone marrow donors, and bone marrow recipients who are ambulatory
and not in need of medical support while traveling. Eligibility is
not based on financial need, and patients may travel as often as necessary.
Thanks to the generous cooperation of 500 of America’s top corporations,
including 56 of the top 100 in the Fortune 500, Corporate Angel Network
has coordinated more than 25,000 flights since it’s founding
in 1981. The program offers an obvious and meaningful benefit to cancer
patients along with the opportunity for companies with corporate aircraft
to provide a wonderful community service by merging business activities
with social responsibility.
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