We present our 2015 Volunteer of the Year award to Christine V. Kanter for outstanding service and dedication to HelpHOPELive.
Chris first began contributing to HelpHOPELive, then the National Heart Assist and Transplant Fund, in 1983, as one of its founding employees. She joined a powerful community of individuals working to empower heart transplant patients to fundraise for a procedure still considered “experimental” and therefore not covered by insurance. Chris witnessed the financial and emotional impact of transplantation in a family member and used that awareness to fuel her service to HelpHOPELive.
Christine (right) with HelpHOPELive co-founder Pat Kolff in 1983
“Going to work every day was exciting,” Chris recounted in a HelpHOPELive interview. “The need was there, and we were there for our patients at every twist and turn as the field of transplantation progressed…It was energizing – what we did worked!”
After 20 years of devoted service in the Patient Services department, Chris retired from her position and joined the HelpHOPELive Board in order to continue serving the organization. Christine was instrumental in planning the first-ever HelpHOPE-Live It Up! annual fundraising event in 2013 to raise funds and awareness for HelpHOPELive. After helping to launch the event, Chris served as its co-chair in 2014 and participated in 2015 as an active member of HelpHOPELive’s Live It Up! event committee.
Christine (right) with her HelpHOPE-Live It Up! co-chair Heather Moore
During her quarter-century of service to HelpHOPELive, Chris has attracted loyal supporters in her extended community to the organization’s cause through word-of-mouth and home fundraising events. A friend of HelpHOPELive founders Dr. Jack and Patricia Kolff, Chris is a founding member of the Kolff Society, a giving society whose members strive to assist HelpHOPELive in furthering its mission to reach families in need across America by providing cumulative gifts of $1,000 or more each year.
Christine continues to passionately support HelpHOPELive
“I cherish my involvement with HelpHOPELive,” Chris said. “For…30 years we have helped people in need – I want that to continue. I give to HelpHOPELive because I want to support the passion [and] the hope.”
Join us at HelpHOPE-Live It Up! on October 16 as we honor Chris for her service and dedication to our mission.
Each year at HelpHOPELive’s annual signature fundraising event, HelpHOPE-Live It Up!, we honor community heroes who prove why our mission matters with the Help, HOPE and Live awards. In 2015, we’re also giving out an Advocacy and Volunteer of the Year award.
We present our 2015 Volunteer of the Year award to Christine V. Kanter for outstanding service and dedication to HelpHOPELive.
Chris first began contributing to HelpHOPELive, then the National Heart Assist and Transplant Fund, in 1983, as one of its founding employees. She joined a powerful community of individuals working to empower heart transplant patients to fundraise for a procedure still considered “experimental” and therefore not covered by insurance. Chris witnessed the financial and emotional impact of transplantation in a family member and used that awareness to fuel her service to HelpHOPELive.
“Going to work every day was exciting,” Chris recounted in a HelpHOPELive interview. “The need was there, and we were there for our patients at every twist and turn as the field of transplantation progressed…It was energizing – what we did worked!”
After 20 years of devoted service in the Patient Services department, Chris retired from her position and joined the HelpHOPELive Board in order to continue serving the organization. Christine was instrumental in planning the first-ever HelpHOPE-Live It Up! annual fundraising event in 2013 to raise funds and awareness for HelpHOPELive. After helping to launch the event, Chris served as its co-chair in 2014 and participated in 2015 as an active member of HelpHOPELive’s Live It Up! event committee.
During her quarter-century of service to HelpHOPELive, Chris has attracted loyal supporters in her extended community to the organization’s cause through word-of-mouth and home fundraising events. A friend of HelpHOPELive founders Dr. Jack and Patricia Kolff, Chris is a founding member of the Kolff Society, a giving society whose members strive to assist HelpHOPELive in furthering its mission to reach families in need across America by providing cumulative gifts of $1,000 or more each year.
“I cherish my involvement with HelpHOPELive,” Chris said. “For…30 years we have helped people in need – I want that to continue. I give to HelpHOPELive because I want to support the passion [and] the hope.”
Join us at HelpHOPE-Live It Up! on October 16 as we honor Chris for her service and dedication to our mission.
Each year at HelpHOPELive’s annual signature fundraising event, HelpHOPE-Live It Up!, we honor community heroes who prove why our mission matters with the Help, HOPE and Live awards. In 2015, we’re also giving out an Advocacy and Volunteer of the Year award.
