Wake-y, wake-y, eggs and bake-y! It's almost time for our Breakfast Benefit! The 5th Annual Compass to Care Breakfast Benefit is coming up on Tuesday, May 1st from 7-9 am in Dubuque, Iowa. The annual Compass to Care Breakfast Benefit is our marquee event in Iowa. The 2017 event had 30 sponsors, 250 guests and raised $65,000 to help children
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Being a single parent of two young boys is tough enough, but what do you do when you find out your youngest has a brain tumor? Everything you possibly can, according to Katie, Jax’s mom. Jax was just 6 years old when he began having hand tremors last year. After the usual battery of testing, doctors determined Jax had a brain tumor. They also disco
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Baseball season’s underway – and after what he’s been through, Quinn couldn’t be more excited! Near the end of last season, no one was quite sure if 12-year old Quinn would ever be playing baseball again. Fast forward to today, and you will see Quinn taking practice with his team and working toward the goal of complete recovery. Last fall, Quinn pi
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Michelle and David were willing to do whatever it took to give their son, Kyle, a future - including driving him two and a half hours away to receive proton radiation therapy, in hopes of shrinking his cancerous brain tumor. However, they could not have done it without your help. “Thank you for taking the weight off our shoulders. It’s so hard for
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Looking at 4 year-old Itzel’s adorable smile, you would never know her childhood has been filled with early morning trips to chemotherapy and radiation, lung surgery and long hospital stays. But it has. In December of 2015, Itzel’s parents found a mass in her thigh. After a visit to her pediatrician, and then to the emergency room, Itzel was admitt
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You wouldn’t normally see a 4-year-old riding his dirt bike to cancer treatment. But if you were in the tunnels at the Mayo Clinic this past spring, you may have seen Sam doing just that. In March, Sam was diagnosed with a medulloblastoma brain tumor after suffering through headaches, a double-ear infection and a swollen optic nerve. He underwent s
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From California to New York and Michigan-with the help of Compass to Care-Parker, 10, and his family received the care he needed to beat Neuroblastoma. As 10-year-old Parker and his family settle back into their San Diego home from a camping trip to the beach, his mother Crystal is thankful for memories like these. Without the help of great healthc
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We are proud to present our 2016 Annual Report. We would like to extend sincere gratitude to all of the sponsors, grantors, donors, and volunteers who contributed our success in 2016. Click here to download the report.
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Vinnie is just like most other 9 year-old boys. He loves to play outside with his friends, climbing trees, horsing around, and having fun. Last summer, he took a tumble off some playground equipment, nothing unusual. Except this time the aches slowly turned to pain. His mom, an x-ray technician, thought maybe he had broken his tailbone, but x-rays
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What a way to kick off May! There’s nothing like an early morning concert, a delicious breakfast, and an inspirational speaker to get your day off to a great start! Compass to Care’s 4th Annual Dubuque Breakfast Benefit was a HUGE success! With more sponsors than ever before (30), and almost twice as many guests as in 2016, it should come as no sur
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