Jonathan Beech Memorial Concert

 

 

This year’s Third Annual Concert will benefit Camp Sunshine in Casco, Maine.  Camp Sunshine is a family camp for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.  Our family enjoyed three visits to this incredible camp with Jonathan, attending their Brain Tumor sessions.  After Jonathan died, our family of three returned to Camp for their Bereavement sessions.  Each session provides us and all families with enormous support, compassion, and coping mechanisms, in addition to invaluable connections with dozens of other families in similar circumstances.  To us, this Camp epitomizes healthy living through great adversity.  It is free to all who attend.  Click on the link to visit their site: http://campsunshine.org/.

 

Our Second Annual Concert (2009) benefited Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation.  Each year, CBTF very generously funds the Brain Tumor Week for all participating families at Camp Sunshine in Maine.  This is a free week-long summer camp experience enjoyed by our entire family, a time and place for us to forge bonds with other families dealing with pediatric brain tumors, an opportunity to help others and be helped by others on this most profound and difficult journey.  We are deeply grateful to CBTF for such great generosity as we attended this particular camp during the past five years.  Click on their website to learn more about this Foundation and its funding of research and other family fun events.

 

Our First Annual Concert (2008) was for the benefit of Compassionate Care Hospice Foundation, the wonderful hospice in Delaware that supported and guided us through Jonathan’s final three months, and upheld us for thirteen months afterward through their bereavement program.