On Friday March 21st, sixteen runners joined Gift of Life for the Fourth Annual Jerusalem Marathon. All proceeds will be used to add new donors to the worldwide registry and give the hope of a cure.
Gift of Life’s Founder and Executive Director was the inaugural recipient of the Charles Bronfman Prize in 2004. He was delighted to join fellow honorees at the International Conference of the Jewish Funders Network held in early March in Miami Beach.
Gift of Life’s newest staff member and blood stem cell donor, Alec, came on board just a few weeks ago, but he already feels that his work will allow him to continue to develop into the best version of himself.
As a husband and father of two young boys, Bill is a busy family man whose weekends are filled with soccer and fun. That active and full life was suddenly at risk when at the age of 36, he suffered a heart attack resulting from a blood clot.
