Singer-Songwriter Shuffle
Concert & Auction

2024 Sponsor Soiree and Songwriter Shuffle Gallery

Thank you to everyone sponsoring, attending, and volunteering at our events.

$1,100,000 raised and TWO transportation vehicles donated!

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Your support helps our community thrive!

Songwriter Soiree Chefs to be announced.

EARLY DETECTION & SUPPORT FOR LIFE-SAVING SCREENINGS

Provide life-saving cancer screenings for those who do not have insurance.  

Help to raise awareness around the importance of early screening for cancer. 

Gunnison Tough (TETWP) has ramped up our awareness campaign resulting in a 40% increase  in the number of women getting their annual mammogram! 

More and more women have been getting their annual mammograms at GVH. With this great success, we have also experienced an increase in requests for financial assistance to help cover the cost of mammograms, ultrasounds, and/or biopsies for the uninsured or underinsured. 

Our financial support program for mammograms, ultrasounds, biopsies, and MRIs have seen increasing demand over the last couple of years. With more and more individuals becoming aware of the program and able to access additional diagnostic screenings at Gunnison Valley Health many women are getting their mammograms and following through with additional recommended diagnostic screenings.

In 2023, TETWP helped support 105 uninsured or underinsured women with screening mammograms, diagnostic ultrasounds, MRIs, and biopsies. In 2023, these charges added up to $45,526.48 for all screenings and diagnostic procedures. 

TETWP TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM

A special thank you to Carol Ann May & Jim Saindon for donating Bucky!
And to Russ & Celina Harrison for donating Betty Ann!

Our three vehicles help get people with any type of cancer safely to their out of town appointments and treatments.

Our three transportation vehicles – Tuffy, Bucky, and Betty Ann are staying very busy getting people safely and comfortably to their appointments outside the valley.

Total Miles Traveled in 2023 : 45,530 miles
9 individuals with breast cancer, 15 individuals with other forms of cancer

LUCY’S HOUSE – LODGING PROGRAM

A special thank you to Norman & Dorothy Eastwood for generously creating & funding this critical program.

Since 2019, over 974 nights of lodging have been provided to individuals with various forms of cancer. 

In 2023 our organization saw a DRAMATIC increase in our Lucy’s House program utilization compared to 2022. 

Providing 461 nights of lodging for 24 individuals in 2023 compared to 164 nights of lodging in 2022! 

A 181% increase!  

FRIENDS OF TOUGH

Since 2015, Friends of Tough (formerly Friends of Pink) has given over $182,000 in financial support to individuals going through cancer. 

In 2023, this program assisted 6 individuals with over $24,000 in financial assistance, including but not limited to, treatment expenses, transportation costs, grocery and housing bills, house cleaning and lost wages.

GUNNISON VALLEY HOSPITAL

Provides state of the art equipment, physicians,  and services to be the best small town cancer care hospital in the USA.

In 2023 TETWP purchased an ABUS breast ultrasound machine for Gunnison Valley Health.
The cost of the machine was $279,807.50

Adding to the inventory of top of the line equipment that Gunnison Tough has provided to our local hospital which includes a 3D Tomosynthesis  Mammography machine, digital ultrasound, stereotactic biopsy equipment, and breast MRI coil. 

All of this state of the art equipment allows our community to receive  the necessary screenings and treatments for breast cancer here at GVH.  

Oncology Nurse Navigator

We support a portion of the salary of the nurse navigator who helps anyone going through a cancer diagnosis in the Gunnison Valley (not just those who are using the the services of the hospital)

Salary support in 2023 was $9,436.00

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY

Gunnison Tough gives cancer patients and their caregivers the opportunity  to access  integrative therapies such as reiki, massage, acupuncture, light therapy, nutrition, ortho bionomy.

These therapies have been proven to help cancer patients stay strong mentally and physically while they are going through their surgeries and treatments. Research findings show that integrative therapies can help to boost the immune system and reduce pain. 

In 2023, Gunnison Tough provided $12,736.00 in integrative therapy support.

SPARKY’S FUND

In 2023 Gunnison Tough was able to provide a total of $18,353.00 in financial support to six families with children.

This support included helping one family go on a quick vacation to a place they had always wanted to visit, help with college tuition, a purchase of a child’s bike, child care tuition assistance, support of a family whose child is going through a pediatric cancer diagnosis and a scholarship for two children who lost a parent to cancer.

Learn more about all of our Programs.

Please contact Shannon at events@gunnisontough.com, or call 303-250-8302 if you would like to sponsor the Songwriter Shuffle. Thank you!