THRIVE for Life Foundation Hosts Cooking for Cancer, a benefit for individuals diagnosed with cancer seeking treatment at the Penn State Cancer Institute and its CARE (Cancer Assistance and Resource Education) Center

The THRIVE for Life Foundation (thriveforlife.me) will host the 2nd Annual Cooking for Cancer on Sunday, June 4, 2023, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. at The Englewood, located at 1219 Research Blvd., Hummelstown, PA. The event features 25 guest Chef & Sous-chef teams, including community leaders from The Hershey Company, as well as Penn State Health leaders, faculty, and staff. The event showcases a variety of cuisine for attendees to sample.

Michele Buck, Chairman, CEO, and President of The Hershey Company and Steve Massini, CEO, Penn State Health are the Honorary Event Co-chairs. abc27’s evening anchor, Valerie Pritchett, will host the event as celebrity emcee. Live entertainment will be provided by the jazz duo of Steve Rudolph and Hassan Shakur. And a painting, created by central Pennsylvania artist Meaghan Troup live during event, will be offered to the highest bidder during a live auction just before the event concludes for the evening.

Keep on Tuckin’, the event theme, is an expression of hope for all those impacted by cancer. Tucker Davis coined Keep on Tuckin’ as a personal mantra while he battled a rare form of liver cancer. Tucker was diagnosed in August 2008 and succumbed to fibrolamellar liver cancer in February 2010. He was 28 years old. His parents, Marna and Chuck Davis, Co-chairs of the Fibrolamellar Cancer Foundation, will provide keynote remarks. They will be joined by Sandra Baksi and Michael Fagan, a patient of the CARE Center and her husband and caregiver. Sandi and Mike will give voice to their personal experiences of the CARE Center, its programs and services, shining a light – in the process – on “Why we THRIVE.”

Event Grand Sponsors include The Hershey Company and two former Chairmen of its Board of Directors, Chuck Davis and Jim Nevels, along with their wives, Marna Davis and Lourene Nevels respectively. They are joined in supporting Cooking for Cancer by leaders across the Hershey entities, including the Milton Hershey School.

Tickets are $100 per person, and a cash bar is available. Event tickets can be purchased online at: https://eventbrite.com/e/cooking-for-cancer-tickets-623815407677. For questions regarding Cooking for Cancer, please contact Michael Hayes, Ph.D., President, THRIVE for Life Foundation at mhayes.thriveforlife@gmail.com.

To support the THRIVE for Life Foundation and its sole beneficiary, the Penn State Cancer Institute CARE Center, secure online donations can be made here.

Proceeds raised from this event support the Penn State Cancer Institute CARE Center located on the campus of Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The CARE Center provides distinctively Penn State personalized medicine – CARE for the whole person that is tailored to each individual’s unique situation, connecting patients to the resources they and their families need during active treatment and beyond.