Gilda's Club Seattle provides a meeting place where men, women and children living with cancer, along with their families and friends, join with others to build social and emotional support as a supplement to medical care.

Description:
Free of charge and non profit, Gilda's Club Seattle offers support and networking groups, lectures, workshops and social events in a nonresidential, home like setting. Funding is solicited from private individuals, corporations, and foundations.

History:
We are named after Gilda Radner, Saturday Night Live comedienne in the 1970's. Gilda died of ovarian cancer in 1989. Before her death she asked that a social and emotional support community be started on the east coast. Joanna Bull, her psychotherapist, and her husband, Gene Wilder, developed the Gilda's Club philosophy based on the Wellness Community and raised the necessary funds to open the first Gilda's Club in New York City in 1995. There are currently 15 Gilda's Club opened throughout the United States with two locations in Canada.

Contact people:

Susanna Rempel, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email) Sally Benson, Program Director, (phone), (email) Anna Gottlieb, Executive Director, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (206) 709-9719

Address:

1400 Broadway Seattle, WA 98122 This location is handicap accessible (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.gildasclubseattle.org

Directions:

We are located on the northeast corner of Broadway and Union. If you're traveling south on I-5, take exit 165-A. Turn left on James Street, then turn left on Broadway. If you're traveling north on I-5, take. . . (more)   Nearest Bus Stop: 2,9, and 60

Miscellaneous Information

Does your organization welcome court-ordered community service volunteers?
	No
Does your organization have volunteer positions for youth 12-18?
	Yes