Gilda's Club Worldwide


Gilda's Club Worldwide Vision

The mission of Gilda's Club Worldwide is to develop strategies and lead activities that will enable our worldwide group of independent affiliates to become the premier emotional and social support community for people with cancer and their families and friends. To nurture affiliate network growth and serve as a unifying voice and catalyst to ensure program effectiveness, a quality brand image and the highest standard of operation wherever Gilda's Clubs exist. 
 

Affiliates

The first Gilda's Club opened its signature red door in New York City in 1995. Additional clubhouses have since opened in dozens of large cities, small cities, and several points in between throughout North America including two in Canada with a third underway in Eastern Ontario. Gilda's Club has helped change the lives of tens of thousands of members, restoring a sense of control and enriching the entire family. Gilda's spirit lives on at every Gilda's Club.

The headquarters organization for a network of 30 affiliates, Gilda's Club Worldwide works with communities to start and sustain local clubhouses. Over the past 12 years, Gilda's Club Worldwide has built a solid reputation of care and accomplishment, as well as a distinguishing brand presence nationally.
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Advocacy Role

Our long-term goal is to strengthen the global understanding that emotional and social support are as essential as medical care when cancer is in the family. Gilda's Club founder Joanna Bull is a frequent lecturer at cancer-related institutes and psycho-oncology meetings and conferences around the world, and has been an advisor to the National Cancer Legislation Advisory Committee.

Affiliate - Worldwide Relationship

The relationship between Gilda’s Club Worldwide and its affiliates is close but flexible. Gilda’s Club Worldwide is dedicated to maintaining the standards that scrupulously reflect the philosophy and program fundamentals and vigorously supports these standards. Worldwide believes the Gilda’s Club movement is enlivened by input from the personal and collective wisdom of its affiliates. Gilda’s Club Worldwide provides affiliate staff training at the Worldwide Training Center and also hosts an annual Affiliates Conference for networking and education. The Gilda’s Club Worldwide philosophy is that all money that is raised locally stays within our community.