Ready for Take Off

Now boarding … a first class event to put fun on the calendar of women living with breast cancer.

17th Annual Karen’s Gift: Take Flight

Saturday, April 13, 7 p.m.
Hard Rock Casino, 1000 Broadway,

Immerse yourself in a world of premium pours with our open bar, carefully curated cuisine + our late night bites! Let the Sly-Band be your in-flight entertainment as you dance the night away amongst the stars with friends.

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The Karen Wellington Foundation, the organization that puts the FUN in fundraising, is taking a vintage aviation theme into the weekend as it hosts its biggest event of the year, the 17th annual Karen’s Gift: Taking Flight.

Buckle up for takeoff at the Hard Rock Casino. Tickets remain, and KWF is holding a “Final Boarding Call” sale with the code TAKINGFLIGHT17.

KWF is the anti-cancer, cancer foundation. It knows other organizations focus on the science, the awareness, and the serious. KWF recognizes that life is better lived with FUN on the calendar and cancer is better when kicked to the curb. Its mission is to make sure that women dealing with appointments, therapies, radiation, chemo, surgeries and stress have an opportunity to put all that behind them with KWF’s Gifts of Fun.

This year, KWF celebrates 17 years of giving those gifts of fun, like the namesake of the organization did her entire life. Karen Wellington lived with breast cancer for 10 years, but still found moments of fun. She would take her kids, Angeline and Robby, ‘reverse trick or treating’ during Halloween. Decked out in their October best, the kids would pass out candy to women getting chemotherapy. And so the idea of giving gifts of fun began. Her family and the Karen Wellington Foundation continues this tradition, now impacting thousands of women and their families through the mission of her foundation. Just this month, on Karen’s birthday, April 1, volunteers dropped off cookies at local chemotherapy centers in memory of Karen.

KWF accepts nominations of women who are living with breast cancer and provides recipients with everything from a “Lemons to Lemonade” box, filled with comfort items like socks, candles and silk scarves featuring Karen’s artwork, to spa days, vacations and beach weekends. All of this comes at no cost to the women and their families.

On stage Saturday night, volunteers and staff will celebrate Karen’s legacy by giving the organization’s 3,000th Gift of Fun – with a goal of giving away 1,000 more this year alone.