Mon, Dec 25, 2006
50 Hours of Falcon 2000 Fractional Time to Help Cancer
Patients
Corporate Angel Network
(CAN), the national non-profit organization that provides free air
transportation for cancer patients by using empty seats on
corporate and fractional aircraft, announced that MBIA Inc.
a provider of specialized financial services has donated 50
hours fractional jet flight time in their NetJet Falcon 2000
aircraft for use by CAN to transport cancer patients to
treatment.
“CAN patients face daunting challenges in their battle
against cancer; the least of these should be transportation to
treatment,” said C. Edward Chaplin, MBIA chief financial
officer. “MBIA employees are proud of their company’s
support of CAN, and we encourage other companies to participate in
this wonderful program.”
“MBIA’s generous donation will clearly increase the
number of cancer patients we transport to treatment centers,”
said Randall Greene, CAN’s chairman. “We often use
donated fractional time for flights to remote or seldom traveled
locations where patients can’t typically be reached with
regular corporate flights,” continued Greene. “Whenever
possible we schedule multiple patients on each individual MBIA
donated flight and these flights often make a critical and lasting
difference in the lives of our patients.”
Corporate Angel Network (CAN) arranges free flights to treatment
for cancer patients using the empty seats on corporate flights.
Since its founding 25 years ago, CAN has grown to include 530
participating corporations, five paid staff, and a team of 50
part-time volunteers who work with patients, physicians, corporate
flight departments, and leading treatment centers to coordinate
medical travel needs of cancer patients with the scheduled flight
activity of participating corporations. To date, CAN has arranged
nearly 25,000 flights and currently provides about 200 patient
flights a month. CAN has received numerous awards in recognition of
its service to cancer patients, including The Volunteer Action
Award, the highest volunteer award from the President of the United
States.
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