Chemo Companions recently partnered with the Arizona Coyotes hockey team and their wives at The Henry restaurant to fill 100 comfort bags for cancer patients at MD Anderson and Ironwood Cancer centers.
Name: Alyssa Dinowitz. I’m the founder and executive director of nonprofit Chemo Companions.
What we do: We provide hundreds of Chemo Comfort bags to cancer patients while they’re receiving oncology treatment in the Valley and Flagstaff. We donate hundreds of bags to the Cancer Support Community, campus in Flagstaff. We provide gas, grocery cards and pantry items and we adopt a family during the holidays to help them get through. We also provide dinners for a teen support group and I teach free monthly yoga. We are working on an inspirational speakers bureau at the moment. I have been sitting with cancer patients every Friday since I lost my mom in 2009. It’s she working through me.
