Background and History

After Gilda Radner, the well-known "Saturday Night Live" comedienne, died of ovarian cancer in 1989, her husband Gene Wilder and friends created Gilda’s Club in her memory. Gilda’s Club is a cancer support community where men, women, and children who have any type or stage of cancer, and their families and friends, can come together for social and emotional support. Gilda’s Club has grown to include 21 clubhouses in the United States and Canada, with 7 additional clubhouses in development. The Gilda’s Club program has served more than 32,000 members—all completely free of charge

GCWW is the headquarters of the Gilda’s Club network, providing the leadership, assistance, education, training, and advocacy that make the Gilda’s Club program possible. Gilda’s Club Worldwide develops clubhouses in new communities, trains staff and board members in the Gilda’s Club program, and provides open clubhouses with intensive, ongoing assistance. Gilda’s Club Worldwide continually improves the Gilda’s Club program, advocates for and promotes research about social and emotional support, and solicits and establishes fundraising partnerships to benefit the clubhouses. The organization relies exclusively on philanthropy for support.

Gilda's Club Worldwide 322 Eighth Avenue, Suite 1402 New York, NY 10001 Phone: (917) 305-1200
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