American Most cancers Society launches Accountants United to Finish Most cancers Council

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The American Most cancers Society was based in 1913, with the principled mission of bettering the general lives of the folks going through most cancers and for his or her respective households. 

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The ACS supplies a myriad of 24/7/365 help to sufferers and their caregivers by their helpline together with working their famend Hope Lodge communities that present a complimentary house away from house to those that should journey for his or her most cancers therapy in addition to complimentary rides to therapy. The ACS additionally operates an internet group for most cancers sufferers, survivors, and caregivers by its Survivors Community, together with promising lobbying efforts by its Most cancers Motion Community to advocate for laws and coverage change.  

As a passionate philanthropist dedicated to well being and wellness, I based the ACS’s Accountants United to Finish Most cancers Council this 12 months as a nationwide platform to unite the accounting occupation as one to finish most cancers. There are roughly 87,000 accounting corporations all through the USA, so the year-over-year scalability to boost each consciousness and safe vital funding for the ACS to hold out its mission is promising. An accounting agency member can develop into an esteemed fellow of the council if it agrees to fundraise for our mission, which might embrace:

  • Organizing accounting corporations’ fundraisers in unison with the ACS’s notable fundraisers, together with however not restricted to Relay for Life occasions and Making Strides Towards Breast Most cancers Walks; 
  • Organizing accounting corporations’ fundraisers month-to-month all year long to help most cancers consciousness month by the particular sort of most cancers for that designated month;
  • Fundraising inside accounting corporations’ present stewardship packages;
  • Fundraising inside accounting corporations’ deliberate giving packages;
  • Fundraising inside accounting corporations’ personal charitable foundations;
  • In-kind donation planning; 
  • Contributing presents in honor or reminiscence of a beloved one; and/or
  • Deliberate giving with an property reward from accounting agency’s companions, workers and/or their shoppers. 

The council’s inaugural in-person assembly can be held on Tuesday, Dec. 16 from 12:00 p.m. EST by 1:30 p.m. EST at Sax’s New York Metropolis places of work, Empire Boardroom at 1040 Avenue of the Americas to debate the council’s 2026 objective setting and aims. Moreover, this council assembly will focus on the deliberate 2026 City Corridor Council conferences on the ACS’s NYC Hope Lodge situated at 132 West thirty second Avenue and deliberate galas, balls and extra themed fundraising occasions. Please register prematurely as seating is restricted at AccountantsUnitedtoEndCancerCouncilMeeting 

I extremely encourage members of accounting corporations of all sizes throughout the nation who’ve an curiosity in combating most cancers to discover their involvement on this council and schedule a complimentary discovery name by contacting me, Peter J. Scalise, Sax LLP’s nationwide partner-in-charge of the federal tax credit and incentives follow and the founding chair of the council, at pscalise@saxllp.com and/or Austin DeSavino, director of improvement on the American Most cancers Society, at Austin.desavino@most cancers.org

To make a year-end tax deductible donation, please go to https://acsengage.org/AccountantsUnited. I thanks very kindly prematurely on your generosity in serving to the ACS’s mission of cancer-fighting by advocacy, analysis and affected person help to make sure everybody has a chance to forestall, detect, deal with and most significantly survive most cancers.

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