Category Archives: Press
Sam’s Club Honors Cinco Charities for Third Consecutive Year
On Jan. 9, 2012, Sam’s Club presented a $1000 check to Cinco Charities for outstanding community service in the Katy area. The flooding streets and tornado warnings did not put a damper on the spirits of the loyal employees of …
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Cinco Charities Seeks Hospitality House for Medical Patients
Katy manufacturer Monty Ballard and his wife, Erin, a recent cancer patient, have pledged $1.5 million to Cinco Charities, dedicated to finding a site and building a Ronald McDonald type hospital hospitality house in the Katy area.
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Couple Pledges $1.5M for Patient Facility
A Katy-area couple in the middle of their battle with cancer has pledged $1.5 million to help build a new home-away-from-home for patients undergoing treatment for life-threatening illnesses. Announcement of the gift from Erin and Monty Ballard came Sept. 1, as supporters of Cinco Charities toured a three-bedroom Katy-area residence recently loaned to the volunteer organization by the same couple until a permanent facility can be built.
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Cinco Charities serving families with medical needs
In the past 12 years, Linda Piazza has lost her mother, father-in-law and four close friends to cancer. Feeling strongly that God has a purpose for why this disease has been so entrenched in her life, she doesn’t have a full understanding or explanation, but firmly believes that her role as a volunteer with Cinco Charities Inc. is important.
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2010 State of Affairs Address
On behalf of the entire Board, allow me to express our sincere appreciation to all of our many loyal supporters; we see so many of your faces – time and time again – at
our events. And the response from local businesses continues to be phenomenal when we ask for their support and sponsorship.
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Local Charity Provides Housing to Influx of Patients
A Katy-based organization, Cinco Charities has found a different way to help patients and their families during treatment of a terminal illness. Distinct from the Cotton Foundation, Cinco Charities does not have a facility. Rather, this organization applies a budget to housing its approved applicants. Within the month of December, Cinco Charities’ Board of Directors approved four applications to provide nearly $8,000 in support to house patients and their family members.
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Katy nonprofit helps cancer patients
Patients travel from around the world to seek care at Houston’s Texas Medical Center because of its reputation for doctors and staff. Yet, as those major hospitals launch satellite centers in Houston suburbs, some out-of-town visitors are making Katy their treatment destination.
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Local Organization Provides Housing for Out-of-Town Patients
Katy is a great place to visit. Just ask Diana Kerrigan, an orapharyngeal cancer patient. When patients like Kerrigan come from out-of-town for treatments, lodging can be an issue. With this in mind, the associates of Keller Williams Realty Katy @ Cinco Ranch formed Cinco Charities. Their goal is to provide temporary housing for patients and their families who are hospitalized or receiving treatment for serious medical needs.
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Cinco Charities Hosts First Guest
You have cancer. When Lionel Sleeper, 44 years of age and a resident of Austin, first heard these words he, quite naturally, was taken aback. But Lionel didn’t waste time, for there was none to be wasted. He contact M.D. Anderson, the world-renowned cancer treatment center location in Houston to schedule the surgery he needed to remove the cancerous growth.
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A Home for Healing
Katy, Texas has spirit! Keller Williams culture spirit! One can feel it in the air and it is a direct result of the phenomenally inspiring endeavors of Cinco Charities!Ignited by the 2006 family Reunion challenge for market centers to leave a legacy within their individual communities and led by the passion of Gayle Huffman and Kathy Girgenti, the Katy team immediately sprang to action! Combining several team member’s personal experience with the associate’s knowledge of their community’s future hospital development plans, a very distinct need was born.
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