Introducing Family House Family Stories videos - sharing the brave and inspiring stories of families of children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. This story features Nino, a survivor of Rhabdomyosarcoma cancer.
Family House: Living Love
The Mission of Family House is to serve as a home away from home for families of children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses by providing physical comfort and emotional support, free from financial concerns.
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”-Aaron Siskind ....this site is a living history of the work we do here at family house, it captures the moments and the people who have forever changed our lives.
Thank you so much to Pat Monahan from Train for visiting Family House! The love and impact you’ve had on Family House is immeasurable, and we are so honored by and grateful for your support! Check out the full photo set at the link below:
Our first Mission Bay success! Thanks to the overwhelming response of letters in support of the new Family House at Mission Bay, we are happy to report the Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency has approved our petition to move forward with land acquisition. We still face several more Committees before the land is officially ours, and we appreciate your ongoing support and love!
Check out photos from the latest Family Dinner. Thank you Giving Tree! http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-Giving-Tree
Thank you to our friends at Intuit for volunteering at Family House! By deep-cleaning the kitchens and bedrooms, you help make Family House safe for immune-compromised kids. Thank you!
Thanks to the many Therapy Dogs who visit Family House! We have lots of fuzzy visitors from the SFSPCA, PAWS for Healing, and 4PAWS. Special 4-legged-guests like Marley, Jonny, Sophie, and Bindi. Fozzy Goldfarb from 4PAWS (Happy 8th birthday, Fozzy!) wrote a book about his friend Raul - check out the photos. Thank you to all of our visiting Therapy Dogs, and their people, too! Your visits are a highlight for all of the Family House families, and you create such special memories!
And check out the amazing photos from the photo booth gallery at the link below! Mad Men & Women indeed!
So much fun at the 32nd Annual Family House Gala - Mad Men & Women! Thank you to the volunteers, sponsors, donors, attendees, and everyone who helped make this event a success! View the rest of the pix at the link below:
So much fun at the Family House Cinco de Mayo party! Special thanks to Rawhide from the SF Bulls Hockey team for hanging out with us, to Three Twins Ice Cream for bringing the delicious ice cream, and to the El toyanese taco truck for making us all super full of deliciousness. Click the link below to view all of the pictures!
Happy Mother’s Day from Family House! We wouldn’t be anywhere without our mothers. It’s not too late to make a donation to Family House in her name for Mother’s Day! Thank you to the staff at UCSF for making these beautiful cards to be shared with all of the Family House Moms!
UCSF Ice Cream Social
Thanks to the doctors, nurses, and hospital support staff at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital for attending our ice cream social earlier this week! It was so great for the staff to meet all of you, and have a chance to get to know you. So many of you we’ve heard of, and even talked to on the phone for years, and can now put a face to the name! And thank you to Three Twins Ice Cream for sponsoring treats for the event. We love and support the same families, and we appreciate all you do for the sick kids at the hospital. Much love!
UCSF Ice Cream Social
Thanks to the doctors, nurses, and hospital support staff at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital for attending our ice cream social earlier this week! It was so great for the staff to meet all of you, and have a chance to get to know you. So many of you we’ve heard of, and even talked to on the phone for years, and can now put a face to the name! And thank you to Three Twins Ice Cream for sponsoring treats for the event. We love and support the same families, and we appreciate all you do for the sick kids at the hospital. Much love!
Ad Hoc Family Dinner
Thanks to Chef David from Ad Hoc and board members Linda and Steve Goldfarb for hosting and cooking an amazing dinner for our families. This was the first Family Dinner ever where there were no leftovers - yum! #FamilyHouse
Thank you Salesforce.com Volunteers for helping to keep our 10th Avenue House clean! #FamilyHouse
Thank you Salesforce.com Volunteers for helping to keep our 10th Avenue House clean! #FamilyHouse
