Dear friends, family, and colleagues,

Please consider making a contribution to support my fundraising goal in fortifying the Patient and Family Assistance Fund (PAF) administered by the Department of Social Work at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 

The PAF program acts as a bridge to patients who experience financial hardship (gross income under 400% of FPL per household) and provides financial assistance to eligible patients and families actively receiving care at BWH. 

Your contribution, small or large, will help replenish depleted funds — and directly benefit and support patients struggling to access basic needs including but not limited to food insecurity, transportation barriers, clean and weather-appropriate clothing, and newborn essentials. 

In advance, I appreciate your willingness to engage in making the lives of our most marginalized in society, slightly more just. 

In solidarity,Milton Joel, LICSW  

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Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), a founding member of Mass General Brigham and a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital (BWFH) provide compassionate, high-quality care in virtually every medical and surgical specialty to patients locally, regionally, nationally and around the world. Every day, our clinicians, researchers, and caregivers work to find new ways to predict, prevent, and treat the most challenging diseases of our time while delivering world-class care with a profoundly human touch. Our Brigham 10K Teammates are proud to fuel quality patient care, innovative training, and life-changing discoveries that will benefit patients here in Boston and around the world, all in support of an area that is meaningful to them.

Thank you for supporting this extraordinary group of runners.