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Children’s Cancer Center Helps Families Focus on Coping

Jonathan Yob Tampa

· Cancer Center
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As the president of the Yob Family Foundation, Jonathan “Jon” Yob leads the philanthropic fund in contributing to a variety of social-service, medical, and educational organizations and programs in Tampa, Florida, and beyond. An award-winning entrepreneur who heads the JAY Management Corporation, Jonathan Yob gravitates toward groups that concentrate on improving the lives of young people.

One of the more than 70 nonprofits that his foundation has assisted over the years is the Children’s Cancer Center, which serves families of children with cancer or chronic blood diseases like sickle-cell anemia in the Tampa Bay Area. It works with more than 850 families with a goal of relieving burdens that hinder families from focusing on helping their children get better.

Administrating two dozen programs, the center assists with strained finances and emotional care at no cost to help soothe anxieties. Such programs range from counseling and art-therapy workshops to family-fun events and outreach initiatives. The center also provides gas and grocery-store gift cards and the Big Buddy program, which offers mentoring relationships for siblings of children with chronic blood diseases or cancer by pairing them with first-year medical students.