August 04, 2016
We are honored to announce a new carrier designed in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and in support of Susan G. Komen®. In 2016-2017, Ergobaby will make a guaranteed minimum donation of $25,000 to Komen in connection with the Ribbons Carrier regardless of sales ($5 per Ribbons Carrier).
We are proud to support Komen in its efforts to save lives and inspire hope for all who have been affected by breast cancer. Through our Carry For A Cure initiative, we will help spread the message of education and prevention to the parenting community by sharing the inspirational stories of real parents who are breast cancer survivors.
“At Ergobaby, we seek to find new ways to support families through every phase of life. Breast cancer has impacted many of the families we serve, as well as those of us at Ergobaby. Everyone has a friend, family member or co-worker affected by this disease. Recently, one of our own team members, Cynthia Neiman, battled breast cancer. We were truly inspired by Cynthia’s strength and designed this carrier to honor her and demonstrate our support in the quest for a cure,” says Margaret Hardin, CEO of Ergobaby. “We want to take this opportunity to help spread the message of education and prevention among our parenting community and beyond in support of all the parents who fight this battle every day.”
We are honored to share the stories of two inspirational moms, one in Los Angeles, Nikki-Weiss Goldstein and one in New York, Ana Fritsch.
In Los Angeles, we collaborated with breast cancer survivor Nikki Weiss-Goldstein and her wife Jill Goldstein to share their family’s inspiring story. Justin Baldoni, star of the CW’s Jane The Virgin, and his production company Wayfarer crafted an intimate video portrait of Nikki and Jill’s perseverance through diagnosis, surgery, and finally recovery to the point that Nikki can finally wear her baby close to her heart. The video will premier in October for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
And in New York, we were lucky enough to collaborate with Ana Fritsch and her family. Ana is a wife, mama, blogger, and talented writer who lives with her family in Brooklyn. Her story is incredibly inspiring, and we are honored to share more about Ana on our blog. Ana is a fighter and survivor, and the love she feels for life spills out into everything she does. This passion is so evident even in the short film telling her story, and we are so honored to also premier it in October for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Our Ergobaby team will be participating in the Susan G. Komen Orange County Race for the Cure® as well, so be on the look out for #TeamErgobaby sign-ups if you would like to join our team.
And we want to hear your stories, too. Tell us your story here.
Photos by Nicki Sebastian.