Posted by: Kiki Underwood
This Thanksgiving season, Zinner & Co. encourages you to support the Baskets of Love Program created by the Michelle’s Wish Foundation, a client very close to our firm’s heart.
Dan DiCillo started the foundation for his wife, Michelle Cirino-DiCillo, who he lost in 2004 from heart disease at the tender age of 33.
By putting together a Thanksgiving Basket of Love and/or participating in the Michelle’s Wish Foundation’s annual food drive, you can help present area families in need with food and other items for a Thanksgiving feast and everyday necessities!
A weakened heart affliction would have no bearing on the strength of the endless and effortless care and love that Michelle – a dedicated wife, loving and tireless mother of two young boys and a career-long nurse – would spread during her abbreviated life. She always concerned herself deeply with the problems of others, endlessly seeking out ways in which she could help. Humankind, the beneficiary of Michelle’s “strong heart,” became cheated by its absence upon her untimely death.
The Michelle’s Wish Foundation is a non-profit organization created to carry on the simple brilliance of lifelong wishes to help care for people who have suffered through no choice of their own. Specifically, the foundation, through various fundraising efforts, will seek to benefit worthy causes closest to Michelle’s caring heart, including:
- Children – through a children’s wish program and a children’s scholarship program, specifically dedicated to giving a truly memorable experience, gift, or scholarship to children either with life-threatening illnesses or without financial means;
- Education – through a scholarship program specifically dedicated to aiding aspiring nurses with a deeply compassionate interest in medical-related and bedside-related care; and
- Medical research – through a heart disease research and education fund.
To learn more about Michelle’s Wish Foundation, or to donate, please visit http://michelleswish.org/.
Barb Theofilos, Mary Ann Mezacapa, Kiki Underwood & Colleen Kaminsky with the baskets Zinner & Co. put together for donation
