Mama Mare Breast Cancer Foundation
In the News
Stories about our foundation and the people whose lives we have touched
Foundation Updates
Recent milestones from our programs and community
December 2025
We surprised a single mom from Brick, NJ with a week-long vacation of her choice.
November 2025
Katie and Bull Nation raised awareness and funds live on TikTok during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
June 2025
Our 2024 Christmas Miracle Dream Trip family returned to the resort where it all started.
Patient Care
Comfort bags for patients at the Steeplechase Cancer Center at RWJUH Somerset and beyond.
May 2024
Presented to a Monroe Township High School senior, part of nearly $40,000 in Think Pink scholarships.
July 2024
Peter, Samantha and their girls returned home from a week of memory-making at Disney World.
NJ.com / The Star-Ledger · December 25, 2019
When her cancer returned, seemingly the entire town showed up on her doorstep
Front page of the Star-Ledger on Christmas Day. When Garwood's Cindy Krauss learned her breast cancer had returned after 20 years, Mama Mare teamed up with the town's police and fire departments, carolers and Santa to surprise her at home with a trip anywhere in the world for her family.
WFMZ-TV 69 News · December 4, 2019
Cancer survivor who took trip to Disney World pays it forward
After the Mama Mare Breast Cancer Foundation sent Bridgette Elston and her family to Disney World, they wanted another family to have the same experience. The Easton, PA family lit their home with pink lights and invited neighbors to hang a ribbon in honor or in memory of someone touched by cancer — selling more than 50 ribbons and raising nearly $350 for Mama Mare, while spreading breast cancer awareness.
TAPinto Milltown/Spotswood · December 17, 2017
Mama Mare Foundation Delivers a Special Holiday Gift to Spotswood Breast Cancer Survivor
Santa came early for teacher and mom Alison Shornock and her sons, who were surprised with an all-expense-paid Disney World vacation from the Mama Mare Foundation and the Jilly Bean Dream Trip Award Program, with Dale Gregorin playing Santa.
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In Disney it didn't revolve around my cancer. I was mom. I was wife. I was Bridgette.
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