Our Story
In 2009 Audrey Guth, a mother in the midst of her own cancer journey, witnessed a mother and child in a cancer waiting room and recognized a critical gap in care: parents struggling to balance treatment with caregiving. She founded the Nanny Angel Network (NAN), driven by a mission to reduce the social and emotional toll of cancer on families through free support for mothers, fathers, and primary caregivers.
NAN has since evolved into Nankind, expanding to deliver critical intervention for children experiencing the trauma of parental cancer. Through a growing community of Volunteer Angels, referral partners, and sponsors, Nankind provides free supportive cancer care to families, one at a time.
To date Nankind has supported 3,000+ families, empowered 4,000+ children, provided 70,000+ meals and delivered 100,000+ hours of free childcare.
Mission
To lessen the social and emotional impact of cancer on families.
Vision
A world where every parent with cancer receives the support they need to no longer choose between their care and the care of their children. Where their children have the support of a specially trained volunteer angel to share their feelings in a healthy way and build emotional resilience.
Values
- Excellence: Thirty years of nanny agency expertise matched with our Certified Child Life Specialist team, we have developed evidence based, personalized support for our families. Our trained and screened volunteers deliver our programs with excellence through all stages of the cancer journey.
- Inclusion: We believe all parents with cancer regardless of income should receive supportive cancer care at every stage of their journey.
- Accountability: We are accountable to all our stakeholders – parents, children, families, volunteers, community partners, funding partners and supporters – and are committed to evaluating our performance, measuring our impact, and improving our results.
- Compassion: We know what a difficult time this is for a family. We are here to give hope and support at every stage.
- Innovation: We are nimble and driven to respond to the changing needs of our community with creativity and insight.
Four Pillars, One Resilient Child
We believe every child deserves the tools to face hard things.
Our Theory of Change guides everything we do, helping children build the emotional resilience and coping skills they need to navigate their parent’s cancer journey, and still find joy.
