About us

The name of our company can mean many different things: 1. the hope that a cure for breast cancer will be found before the disease recurs in someone you love; 2. the hope that breast cancer will never directly affect your family; 3. the hope that all women - sisters in the general sense - will join together to conquer breast cancer.

Whatever it means for you, let that definition guide you.

A Sister's Hope became reality in 2006 after three years of dreams and plans. The company's mission is to create and produce events that will raise substantial funds crucial for breast cancer research and programs that will improve proper diagnosis. Events in the United States launched in 2010, though the organization already has provided researchers more than $4.8 million over the past five years.

A Sister's Hope - United States and The Netherlands

A Sister's Hope, initially created in the U.S. to produce events in the Midwest, fatefully ended up igniting actions overseas.

Stichting (the Dutch word for non-profit) A Sister's Hope was founded in The Netherlands in the fall of 2006 by Cathy Seabaugh and Martje Hoekmeijer. Cathy had worked for several years on the breast cancer fund raising walks in the United States and Martje was working on different special events in Holland. In its young history, A Sister's Hope has generated more than 3.5 million euro for breast cancer researchers in The Netherlands. Donors in the United States have combined for more than $92,000 in research funds for a project at Northwestern University/Lurie Cancer Center in Chicago and a project at the University at Albany-New York.

Both Cathy and Martje have strong motivation for what they are doing.

"I vividly remember the night I found out my sister had been diagnosed," Cathy said. "I felt completely helpless and was so afraid of what the diagnosis might mean." Twelve years have passed and Cathy's sister continues living in the Midwest of the U.S., spending as many hours as possible with the small grandson that was born on her birthday, and the granddaughter born in January 2010.

Martje lost her maternal grandmother to breast cancer. An avid runner and formerly a 10-year physical education instructor at an Amsterdam school, Martje strongly believes in people being active and sees A Sister's Hope events as an opportunity for people to not only raise significant funding for breast cancer research, but also a way to become more healthy themselves by participating in the events.

The 2012 60K Walk will be the sixth annual event and this promises to be an amazing year! There really is no limit to what can be accomplished.

To learn how you can start making a difference now, check out
Pink Moon Run & Walk
Take a Swing at Breast Cancer
A Sister's Hope 60K - Amsterdam.

You can write to us at info@ASistersHope.org or call (773)412-6397 in the U.S., or 06 47 94 1730 in The Netherlands. We look forward to talking with you.