It’s our 10th anniversary year! We can’t quite believe 10 years have passed since we formed the David Cornfield Melanoma Fund in 2007 to fulfill David’s goal of saving lives from melanoma. We are proud of what we have achieved and so grateful for all the amazing support we have received along the way.
To mark our anniversary, throughout 2017 we will recognize the people and partners who helped us over the years, reflect on our accomplishments, and look forward to the future.
Read our 10th Anniversary blogs:
Dear 16 Year Old Me saved my life
When “Dear 16 year old me” started making the rounds, it was two days before I would receive the results for an abnormal mole I had removed on my side.
Melanoma Awareness Month 2017
This year’s Melanoma Awareness Month was a great one for DCMF. Our awareness, prevention and research efforts were in full swing. Our 2017 Sun Smart Kids Program starting rolling out across Ontario, our melanoma awareness videos Dear 16 Year Old Me and #newfamilyrule continued to empower people to protect and check their skin, and the DCMF Award at the University of Toronto began to take shape.
We Love Our Volunteers
Every organization, especially a small grassroots charity like ours, knows it would be impossible to function without volunteers. In fact, the David Cornfield Melanoma Fund (the “DCMF”) started because a group of dedicated volunteers got together to ensure that David’s wish to take steps to ensure that no other family had to lose a loved one from melanoma was attained.
The story behind Dear 16 Year Old Me
David and Sari Cornfield were two of our closest friends. Mark and I met David at Deloitte where we worked. David was the one who, much to his amusement and delight, first discovered our blooming interoffice romance a few years before.
The inspiration behind the David Cornfield Melanoma Fund
My name is Sari Cornfield and I was blessed to be David Cornfield’s wife. Our love story began as do most – boy meets girl, girl and boy fall in love, get married and so on. We were young and in love, we were best friends who spent every free moment together. We were starting our life together, having adventures, working hard at our respective careers and planning to start a family. Unfortunately, that’s where our love story took a turn.