A heartfelt thank you and goodbye
Since the Spring of 2020, our family made a commitment to raising awareness and funds for brain tumour patients and their caregivers in Canada.
We created The Adam Fanaki Brain Fund and with the generosity of our hundreds of donors, volunteers and our major sponsor Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, we raised over $275,000 that went to support or establish essential programs and services at a variety of organizations across Canada.
From helping families living with financial challenges by absorbing their parking and transportation costs as well as paying for medicine and other medical needs at The Odette Cancer Center at Sunnybrook and St. Michael's Hospital; running virtual therapy and support groups during the pandemic, creating a mobile app as well as the printing of handbooks for the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada; and sibling support at Sick Kids, we are very proud of what we have achieved in a short amount of time.
This fundraiser began as a way to give back to the community that helped us while also providing ourselves with something positive to focus on in our grief.
After nearly four years, it's with bittersweet feelings that we have decided to wrap-up the Fund at the end of 2023. We leave the campaign knowing that so many brain tumour patients and caregivers have benefited from our initiatives . Our family, however, will continue to make personal financial donations to our partner charities.
We want to send a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported us and hope that you will continue to support our partner charities in memory of Adam.
Sending you our best wishes and deepest gratitude,
Janet, Isobel and Sam Fanaki
We created The Adam Fanaki Brain Fund and with the generosity of our hundreds of donors, volunteers and our major sponsor Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, we raised over $275,000 that went to support or establish essential programs and services at a variety of organizations across Canada.
From helping families living with financial challenges by absorbing their parking and transportation costs as well as paying for medicine and other medical needs at The Odette Cancer Center at Sunnybrook and St. Michael's Hospital; running virtual therapy and support groups during the pandemic, creating a mobile app as well as the printing of handbooks for the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada; and sibling support at Sick Kids, we are very proud of what we have achieved in a short amount of time.
This fundraiser began as a way to give back to the community that helped us while also providing ourselves with something positive to focus on in our grief.
After nearly four years, it's with bittersweet feelings that we have decided to wrap-up the Fund at the end of 2023. We leave the campaign knowing that so many brain tumour patients and caregivers have benefited from our initiatives . Our family, however, will continue to make personal financial donations to our partner charities.
We want to send a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported us and hope that you will continue to support our partner charities in memory of Adam.
Sending you our best wishes and deepest gratitude,
Janet, Isobel and Sam Fanaki
A bit about The Adam Fanaki Brain Fund
Adam Fanaki was one of Canada's brightest lawyers, an accomplished public speaker, a terrific dad, husband and all-around great guy. He was loved by all who knew him.
In 2016, at the age of 47, Adam was diagnosed with glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. He succumbed to the disease on February 15, 2020.
Adam lived with GBM the same way he had always lived his life. With perseverance, determination, a great sense of humour and adventure. - setting an example for all of us.
To pay tribute to him, his wife Janet with their children Isobel and Sam established The Adam Fanaki Brain Fund. The fund aimed to financially support the charities that run programs and services to help brain tumour patients and their caregivers. The goal was to provide some relief from the stress of living with a brain tumour and offer hope too.
Some of the essential programs and services that have benefited from The Adam Fanaki Brain Fund's donations include:
The partner charities are:
In 2016, at the age of 47, Adam was diagnosed with glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. He succumbed to the disease on February 15, 2020.
Adam lived with GBM the same way he had always lived his life. With perseverance, determination, a great sense of humour and adventure. - setting an example for all of us.
To pay tribute to him, his wife Janet with their children Isobel and Sam established The Adam Fanaki Brain Fund. The fund aimed to financially support the charities that run programs and services to help brain tumour patients and their caregivers. The goal was to provide some relief from the stress of living with a brain tumour and offer hope too.
Some of the essential programs and services that have benefited from The Adam Fanaki Brain Fund's donations include:
- the creation and ongoing maintenance of a first of its kind mobile app for brain tumour patients and caregivers
- virtual support and counselling
- printing and distribution of adult and paediatric patient and caregiver handbooks
- art therapy
- sibling support programs
- financial aid with medications, transportation costs, meals and parking for those living with financial challenges
- palliative support programs
The partner charities are:
- Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada
- The Odette Cancer Centre at Sunnybrook Hospital
- St. Michael's Hospital.
- Sick Kids
Over $275,000 raised
