The Sisterhood Update: What’s Happening at My Sister’s Keeper Cleveland
- Sherri White
- 20 minutes ago
- 6 min read
Support. Connection. Healing. Action.
Sisterhood in Motion
In the heart of Cleveland, our sisterhood grows stronger through shared stories and collective action.
There is a lot happening at My Sister’s Keeper Cleveland.
Over the next several weeks, our Sisters and supporters will see new healing resources, confidence-building experiences, awareness campaigns, community fundraisers, and opportunities to come together in support of individuals and families affected by cancer.
Every initiative may look different, but they are all connected by one goal:
To make sure no woman has to navigate cancer without meaningful support.
Here’s what’s happening at MySKCle.
Note from the Desk
August is a time for reflection and preparation as we gear up for a powerful Fall season of advocacy.
Introducing the Confidence Collective
My Sister’s Keeper Cleveland is proud to be part of the Confidence Collective, a collaborative initiative bringing together five organizations and businesses committed to supporting individuals impacted by cancer and survivorship.
The Confidence Collective includes:
My Sister’s Keeper Cleveland
Black Girls Fighting Cancer (BGFC)
The Gathering Place
Noire Wellness & Aesthetics
Thrive Beyond Survivorship Collective
Together, we are combining our strengths, perspectives, and resources to create meaningful experiences that address confidence, wellness, connection, and life beyond a cancer diagnosis.
Our First Event: Boldly Her
The Confidence Collective will launch its first collaborative experience with Boldly Her, an event created to celebrate the confidence, identity, resilience, and individuality of women impacted by cancer.
Boldly Her will bring women together for an experience centered on encouragement, connection, self-expression, wellness, and rediscovering confidence beyond the diagnosis.
Care Alliance Health Center will also be on site offering health screenings, giving attendees an additional opportunity to connect with preventive health resources during the event.
We are especially grateful to Honey Baked Ham for sponsoring our inaugural event and helping the Confidence Collective bring this experience to life.
Boldly Her is just the beginning.
Through the Confidence Collective, our organizations are demonstrating what is possible when the cancer-support community comes together—not to duplicate efforts, but to expand what we can offer the women we collectively serve.
Boldly HER: The Confidence Experience
August 29, 2026 | 1:00 PM
Experience a day of self-care activities, resource tables, and supportive health screenings at Lyndhurst, OH.
Walk With Us — And Bring Your Team
Cancer awareness walks are about more than walking a route.
They are an opportunity to honor someone, remember someone, support someone, raise awareness, and remind families that an entire community is standing with them.
This season, we want to see My Sister’s Keeper walk teams grow.
We encourage Sisters, families, friends, coworkers, churches, businesses, and community organizations to form teams and walk together.
Your team can be five people or fifty.
What matters is showing up.
Build your team.
Invite your people.
Wear your MySKCle spirit proudly.
Walk with purpose.
We will continue sharing opportunities for our Sisters and supporters to participate in upcoming walks.
Help Us Reach Our $7,500 Walk Goal
This year, My Sister’s Keeper Cleveland has set a goal to raise $7,500 through our walk campaign—and we need our community to help us get there.
Every team, every walker, and every donation moves us closer.
Funds raised help support the real work happening behind the scenes: direct assistance, educational resources, healing experiences, peer support, family-centered services, and programs designed to help women navigate life during and after cancer.
Here’s how you can help:
Form a walk team with family, friends, coworkers, your church, or your organization.
Set a team fundraising goal and ask your network to support you.
Donate directly even if you are unable to walk.
Share the campaign with people who may want to support the mission.
Ask your employer or business to match donations or sponsor your team.
If 75 people raise $100 each, we reach our goal.
If 30 teams raise $250 each, we reach our goal.
If 15 businesses or community partners contribute $500 each, we reach our goal.
However we get there, the result is the same: more resources available when a woman affected by cancer reaches out for help.
Let’s turn every step into support.
Our goal: $7,500. Our reason: the Sisters and families who need us. Our challenge to you: walk, give, share, and bring someone with you.
When someone donates, sponsors an event, purchases a ticket, participates in a fundraiser, or partners with My Sister’s Keeper, those resources help us continue supporting women in practical and meaningful ways.
Community support helps us provide and develop:
Direct assistance based on identified needs
Sister-to-Sister peer support
Educational programming
Creative healing experiences
Confidence and personal-development programming
Cancer awareness initiatives
Resources for newly diagnosed women
Family-centered support, i.e. Waiting Room Watchers
Community partnerships
Programs that help women rebuild beyond treatment
We want donors and supporters to see the connection:
Your participation becomes resources.
Resources become programs.
Programs become support.
Support reaches a Sister.
That is the impact.
Pink Mamas 2026: Let’s Move for a Cause
Get ready to move.
Pink Mamas 2026 returns on:
Sunday, October 4, 2026
3:00–5:00 PM Cleveland, Ohio Tickets: $25
The annual breast cancer awareness event and Zumba® Master Class, presented by Island Beats, will bring the community together to move, raise awareness, and support women and families affected by breast cancer.
This year, My Sister’s Keeper Cleveland has been selected as the supported organization.
Pink Mamas is working toward an exciting goal of:
200 attendees
$7,500+ raised
Sponsors and vendors are also welcome to participate.
We would love to see our Sisters, families, friends, supporters, healthcare partners, and community members fill the room.
Come move with us.
Bring somebody with you.
And help us turn an afternoon of movement into meaningful support.
Strengthening the Big Sister Experience
Sisterhood remains at the heart of our organization.
We are continuing to strengthen our Big Sister support model so that women connected to MySKCle have someone checking in, listening, encouraging, and helping them stay connected to available resources.
New tools are being developed to help Big Sisters navigate check-ins, recognize when additional support may be needed, maintain appropriate boundaries, and provide more consistent peer support.
Our goal is simple:
A Sister should never have to wonder if anyone noticed she was struggling.
September is Leukemia Awareness Month
This September, My Sister’s Keeper Cleveland will recognize Leukemia Awareness Month through education, storytelling, and community engagement.
The effort is being led by Ieasha Parker, Leukemia Warrior who will help guide MySKCle’s awareness activities and outreach throughout the month.
Our campaign will focus on helping the community better understand leukemia, amplifying the voices of those impacted, encouraging people to wear orange, and creating opportunities to turn awareness into action.
Orange U Aware?
Throughout September, we will invite schools, businesses, churches, healthcare teams, community organizations, families, and individuals to participate in our Orange U Aware? campaign.
A featured part of the campaign will be our Orange Out for Leukemia Weekend, September 25–27.
We are asking the community to:
Wear orange
Take and share photos
Tell others why you are wearing orange
Encourage your workplace, school, church, family, or organization to participate
Help start conversations about leukemia and blood cancer
Support our Leukemia Awareness Month fundraising efforts
Campaign hashtags: #MySKCleGoesOrange #OrangeUAware
We will also share personal stories and experiences that help “peel back the layers” of what it means to live with, support someone through, or be impacted by leukemia.
Our goal is to make September more than an awareness month.
We want it to be a month of education, visibility, support, and action for individuals and families affected by blood cancer.
Turning Awareness Into Action
We are proud to offer products that serve a higher purpose. Each purchase helps us continue our mission of support and advocacy within Cleveland. Check out our featured awareness apparel below.
Leukemia Awareness T-Shirt
Join us this September. Pre-order is open until August 24. A meaningful gift for survivors and supporters alike.
$20.00
Join Our Upcoming Creative Event
Celebrate self-expression and sisterhood at our upcoming Wearable Art Experience. Choose exclusive designs, select your power word, and create a one-of-a-kind T-shirt that reflects your inner strength. Space is limited to 15 participants, so reserve your spot for this afternoon of creativity and connection.
Paint Your Power: A Wearable Art Experience
Turn a simple T-shirt into a wearable expression of YOU. Select your colors and a personal Power Word representing strength and resilience.
September 12, 2026, 1:00 – 3:30 PM
16200 Euclid Ave, East Cleveland, OH 44112
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