For Immediate Release
Children’s Cancer Association’s Executive Director Chosen for National Award by Working Mother Magazine
April 20, 2004 – Portland, OR – Regina Rathburn Ellis, Executive Director and co-founder of the Children’s Cancer Association, was chosen among thousands of entrants, for Working Mother Magazine’s “Raising a Ruckus Award” for 2004. Working Mother honors Regina Ellis and two other national award winners in its May issue.
The Children’s Cancer Association, (CCA) is a 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization that was established in memory of Alexandra Ellis, a five-year-old Portland girl, who courageously battled cancer for two and a half years before she died on May 7, 1995. CCA is a source for creating child-centered programs as well as information, advocacy, and support for children with cancer and life-threatening illnesses, their families in crisis, and the medical professionals who care for them.
This organization, with a current budget that exceeds $1 million, a volunteer roster of 800, a dedicated and talented staff of 14 and a dynamic board, was founded in 1997 at Regina Ellis’ kitchen table after the devastating loss of her daughter, Alexandra. Together, by challenging attitudes about pediatric care, the organization is affecting the treatment of life-threatening illness on a national level. Regina, a former junior college instructor and marketing executive, runs CCA full-time. "My story is sad—devastating," she says. But CCA's story "is about finding the possibilities in life." That's not blind optimism, she adds, but realism. "It's just, 'Well, here we are. Okay. Let's find what's magical about today.' "
- The entire article can be found below and on-line here:
- http://www.workingmother.com/May04feature_Ruckus.shtml
