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Thank you!

Thank you to everyone who participated for #MindiansCare week. All of your stories were inspirational and so touching!

For those that didn't post but who spread some positivity and kindness over the week - thank you!

It's so nice to be a part of a fandom that is so enthusiastic and giving. I hope we get to do a #MindiansCare week for season 4!

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Mindy instagrammed this photo of Gilda's Club NYC. Here is more info about Gilda's Club and you can donate here:

http://www.gildasclubnyc.org/

Gilda’s Club New York City was named for Gilda Radner, the brilliant comedian and one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live. For years, she made us laugh with memorable characters like Baba Wawa, Emily Litella and Roseanne Roseannadanna. Gilda was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1986. She learned to live with cancer with help from a support community she joined in California, where she felt she could express what she was really feeling—an experience she described in her autobiography, It’s Always Something. It was her dream that anyone touched by cancer would be able to receive the kind of emotional and social support that she had found. Following her death in 1989, Gilda’s husband, Gene Wilder and her cancer psychotherapist, Joanna Bull started the Gilda’s Club movement. In June, 1995 GCNYC opened its signature red door – Gilda’s legacy to everyone living with cancer. Since opening, GCNYC has offered a place where men, women and children living with cancer – and their families and friends – can join together to build social and emotional support as a supplement to medical care. New Yorkers touched by cancer embraced the opportunity to join our free support community, and by 1997, GCNYC had over 1,000 members. The success of our flagship prompted the formation, in 2000, of Gilda’s Club Worldwide, an organization dedicated to developing a national network of clubhouses. Many other milestones have followed.  We now have over 5,000 members, including many at our community satellites in Brooklyn and the Bronx, and our Manhattan Clubhouse has seen over 100,000 member visits. And in honor of our 10th anniversary in 2005, the City of New York renamed West Houston Street between Varick Street and 6th Avenue “Gilda Radner Way.” Gilda’s Club New York City continues to grow, expanding both our program and our membership. Every year, nearly 35,000 people are diagnosed with cancer in New York City, and each diagnosis affects an entire circle of family and friends. Once you walk through our red door, you enter a special community where living with cancer is the common denominator — and you can choose how you would like to participate. Our goal is to ensure that social and emotional support is available to every New Yorker, because no one should have to face cancer alone.

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MINDIANS CARE PART 2

To be honest, I wasn’t planning on submitting this because it is something that I have been regularly doing (2 - 3 times a year) for many years now. Today I donated a whole bunch of clothing, boots and handbags to charity (10 bags worth). Like I said, this is something that I do all the time. I started doing this (along with my family) many many years ago when we realized that we had a whole bunch of clothing that we never wore (mostly because my sister and I had outgrown our clothes) and that it would have been a waste to just throw them out. Now, I do it because it’s become a habit (a good habit, I like to think). I do it to keep me organized, and to stop me from becoming a hoarder, but mostly because I know that a little donation like this can go a long way to helping someone in need.

- evmlove 

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This week I chose to support F*ck Cancer's campaign by buying this tee. Get your own!

- amindyproject 

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September 11th

Being that it’s September 11, I thought I’d keep with that idea for today’s activities.

I made an appointment with the Red Cross to give blood because that’s always one of the first things needed in the event of a national emergency. (Sadly, I cannot do it today, but they have a handy appointment-maker on their website now. http://www.redcross.org/m/index.jsp)

I’ll also be making a donation to the Wounded Warrior Project, an organization which holds a special place in my heart. My father, who is in his 36th year in the National Guard, was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan after the events of 9/11. Thankfully, he was never injured, but many of his fellow soldiers were.

The WWP was created in 2002, after the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their mission is simply to help rehabilitate injured soldiers emotionally, mentally, and physically and to make their transition back into civilian life easier. The soldiers who need the services of the WWP pay nothing for them, so the organization relies heavily on donations.

You can learn more here: http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/

- clrmyr

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Beth Grant tweeted about winning some money for Habit for Humanity at the Fox party. She also mentioned the Motion Picture Television Fund as being a cause close to her heart for the care they provided for her mother.

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Race For The Cure

For my second contribution to Mindians Care week, I signed up for a Race For The Cure, to fund research for a cure for breast cancer. With the show being set in an ob-gyn practice, I think it fits, and as a more personal cause also, because so many of my friends and family have been affected (including my Mom, who just finished chemo).

- fortlaudertales2720

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Stand Up to Cancer

I just pledged to donate to Stand Up to Cancer https://www.standup2cancer.org

It’s special for two reasons: 1) 100% of its donations go directly to support the cause. This project is a “groundbreaking initiative created to accelerate innovative cancer research that will get new therapies to patients quickly and save lives now.”

2) This is in honor of two very brave people: one is a special friend who is a true Mindian and the other is Mindian-adjacent and just as special :)

Praying for hope and healing for all people who are touched by this disease.