Are you looking for a new and unique way to raise funds and create awareness for your fundraising program? The F Cancer™ Embrace Life Ambassador Program may be just the answer you need. The objective of the Ambassador Program is to assist organizations and individuals in their cancer fundraising efforts. With every F Cancer™ Embrace Life bracelet sold for your cancer care cause, $50.00 is donated to that cause. You can purchase bracelets and sell them as part of an event or F Cancer™ can set up an account dedicated to your event and sell the bracelets for you.
FACING FEAR. INSPIRING HOPE. EMBRACING LIFE.
To date, almost $100,000 has been donated to Inspire Health. Every F Cancer™ bracelet sold raises $50 for Inspire Health, with the purchaser receiving a charitable tax receipt for their donation. By selling 30 bracelets in the next 30 days, F Cancer Embrace Life will reach their initial goal of a $100,000 contribution.
Just weeks after a Barrie man was approved for a personalized licence plate reading "F CANCER", the Ministry of Transportation has reversed the decision and rejected the application.
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Who doesn’t want to give the middle finger to cancer? Jewelry designer Susan Fiedler, creator of the sterling silver Fuck Cancer bracelets, has launched The F Cancer Embrace Life Ambassador program.
Since creating the bracelet two years ago, she has raised more than $70,000 for Vancouver-based InspireHealth, a not-for-profit integrated cancer care centre. Now Fiedler is offering individuals and organizations that meet the criteria the chance to sell the Fuck Cancer bracelet to raise money for their own cancer cause.
Look for October in the 2011 Pinups for Pink Calendar and you’ll find F Cancer Embrace Life founder Susan Fiedler channelling her inner Betty Boop. The calendar, featuring 12 lovely Vancouver women posing as classic pin up beauties raises funds for the Canadian National Breast Cancer Foundation through sales and events featuring the calendar.
What do you do when life deals you a terrible hand? You make the bet you can of it. ELLE gets exclusive excerpts from the INSPIRING blog of a brave warrior who is battling multiple myeloma.
Yes indeed, the F*** Cancer name Yael Cohen gave her charity in 2009 did surface a year earlier when city jeweller (and blood-cancer survivor) Susan Fiedler engraved it on bracelets that raised $35,000 for the InspireHealth cancer-care clinic.
W. Brett Wilson of Dragon's Den fame gives two thumbs up after receiving a degree of Doctors of Laws (honoris causa) at Royal Roads University convocationon Oct. 26, 2010.
A special Thank You goes to tattoo artist Jime Litwalk, Hart and Huntington Las Vegas and The Hard Rock Hotel for creating their own charity event: Rock the Ribbon. Held on October 29th, Rock the Ribbon offered the public an opportunity to have the F Cancer design tattooed free of charge. The event was inspired by our F Cancer friend and cancer survivor Tony di Giovanni who had the F Cancer artwork turned into beautiful body art on his 40th birthday (add link to video). Donations were accepted and proceeds passed onto Susan G. Komer for the Cure and F Cancer Embrace Life.
If a polite pink ribbon doesn't sum up your sentiments, try the blunt but cheeky F Cancer bracelet (fcancerembracelife.com), engraved in sterling silver by Vancouver-based Soul Flower jewelry designer Susan Fiedler, a cancer survivior herself. Fifty dollars from the sale of each one is donated to InspireHealth, a nonprofit integrative cancer care centre in Vancouver.
It's hard to believe it's been almost two years since the first F*Cancer bracelet was sold and fundraising for InspireHealth through F*Cancer Embrace Life was launched. As founder, I want to celebrate our success with you and share the highlights of this time.
Former Deep Cove resident Susan Fiedler has partnered with West Vancouver songstress Sarah McLachlan to create a jewelry line that is being sold at Lilith concerts across North America.
The line, designed by McLachlan, consists of a sterling silver necklace ($100) and earrings ($90) in a flowing design. The items can be purchased as a set for a discounted price. They're for sale online as well as at concert venues and at Y Yoga.
Susan Fiedler is pleased to be collaborating once again with Sarah McLachlan to produce jewelry for Lilith.
“Sarah is great to work with – she really understands how to design jewelry – and we share the same values when it comes to making socially and environmentally responsible product from eco-friendly reclaimed sterling silver right here in Canada,” says Susan.
Growing up in Toronto and Vancouver with an artist mother and a music-industry manager father, Susan says she learned early that creative expression and business smarts are complementary skills. In 1991, Susan founded Soul Flower – now one of the best known jewelry brands in Canada. In 2004 she was included in Business in Vancouver’s list of 40 Under 40 achievers in business.
April is Cancer Awareness Month in Canada. YYoga is proud to carry F*Cancer bracelets, designed by local Vancouver designer, Susan Fiedler. Support integrated cancer care and purchase a F*Cancer bracelet from your center's eco-boutique with $50 from each bracelet benefiting InspireHealth Integrated Cancer Care Centre. read the entire YYoga newsletter
The cheap plastic yellow LiveStrong bracelets by the Lance Armstrong Foundation have raised millions for the cause, but really, who is going to wear that on a daily basis, if at all? Of course the dollar cost is no biggie and a worthwhile, inexpensive purchase, but isn’t it better to have a piece of jewelry that you can proudly wear? Vancouver jewelry designer and cancer survivor Susan Fiedler of Soul Flower has been turning heads with her elegant sterling silver bracelet engraved with the words we all feel — “Fuck Cancer.”
I have been a jewelry designer and world traveler for most of my adult life. I’m accustomed to working hard and relying on myself: I’ve worked on a fishing boat, tended bar, lived in Bali and San Francisco, and taught myself to snowboard and ski. But in 2006, I found myself really struggling. I was seriously exhausted, spending more and more time in bed. I thought it was burnout. It never crossed my mind I had cancer. I’ve always been such a healthy, active person. And I was only 38!
Inscribed on an elegantly simple silver bangle, and resembling an EEG lifeline, is the defiantly positive message: F*ck Cancer. The work of Vancouver-based Susan Fiedler, who knows firsthand what it takes to face this disease, this charmed bracelet was an expression of her own experience, but she found many cancer survivors using the same motto, and was delighted to find it expressive of a shared attitude.
Imagine for me please……..you are a young, dynamic, world travelling, independent, creative jewellery designer. Now, try to also imagine, that you have just been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, told that you are basically incurable.
What would you do?
Would you lay down and die? Or would you fight?
Would you follow every order your doctor gave you unquestioningly, or would you demand second opinions and seek alternative healing options?
So, in the meantime, I’ll try to enjoy each day as much as I can - and take the advice that’s inscribe on a gift from my brother Moses, the founder of this magazine. It’s a handsome silver bracelet, and he wears one exactly like it in solidarity. The engraving looks like the squiggles on a medical monitor. But if you look closely, you can read the legend: F**k Cancer!
Jewellery designer Susan Fiedler gets right to the point with this eye-catching charm. As the review puts it, nothing against pink ribbons, but tough causes call for tough language. "The F*Cancer bracelet is delicate but strong, subtle but forthright. Wearing one brings plain speech and a little charm-bracelet magic into a battle that’s worth our lives."
Sure, pink ribbons and yellow wristbands send a positive message, but here’s a bracelet that doesn’t mince words. Embracing the strong and courageous spirit of many cancer patients and survivors, these bracelets by Vancouver jewellery company Soul Flower are delicate in design but strong in their message. Engraved within an ECG-like lifeline are the fighting words “F–k Cancer”—a sassy, life-affirming message juxtaposed with the tasteful design of the simple silver bangle.
I know the "perfect gift" term seems somewhat overused and meaningless these days, but I really have found the perfect gift. Unlike my other cheap-o ideas, this one is a little pricier, but totally worth it because it supports a good cause and it might even put a smile on the face of someone affected by cancer (and we all have been in one way or another).
Soul Flower has long been a favorite jewelry line of mine because, Susan Fiedler (the socially conscious designer behind the line) is committed to creating gorgeous jewels at affordable prices. From belly rings to finger baubles my jewelry box is full of Soul Flower.
In the vein of designing with soul, check out her F*Cancer bracelet. No more of those horrible rubber wristbands - this sterling silver bracelet really makes a strong statement about kicking ass on cancer.
We're all familiar with the high-profile pink ribbon campaigns for breast cancer research that were everywhere last month. But this audacious silver bracelet designed by Susan Fiedler for Vancouver's Soul Flower Jewellery says it like it really is.
Inscribed in flowing script on each band are the fighting words: "fuck cancer."
It’s breast cancer awareness month, and cancer survivor Susan Fiedler has designed this bracelet, with a wonderfully forthright message, for Soul Flower jewellery. $120, with $50 going directly to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
