What is Gilda's Club?

• It is a warm and welcoming meeting place where people touched by cancer can come together to learn how to live with cancer and to celebrate the challenges and opportunities of everyday life.
• Gilda's Club is a free of charge cancer support community whose program is driven by its membership.
• It is a non-residential, home-like setting with rooms for quiet chats, support groups, children's supervised play area, teen/young adult activities, lectures & workshops, and social events.
• It supports the philosophy that no one should have to face cancer alone.
• Funding is provided from donations from individuals, local businesses, corporations, foundations and service clubs.

Gilda's Club focuses on living with cancer

• Gilda's Club is a non-institutional community centre for people living with cancer.
• Gilda's Club takes an innovative approach to the needs of the whole person - as well as those of the people in their lives.
• Our program complements our members' choice of medical treatment through attention to social and emotional needs.
• The Gilda's Club program is driven by our members - the experts in emotional and social support.

The Origins of Gilda's Club

Gilda's Club is the culmination of that dream: a warm and welcoming place to share feelings, fears and fun with others who understand, because they know and because they care.