A Second Life

In the past 18 years I have flourished. I have had the opportunity to spend time with Greg, my husband — sharing time we had never had with two busy careers, often from two different countries. We have laughed, we loved, and had the benefit of travelling extensively all while navigating life’s challenges.
I have enjoyed countless cherished times with my three sisters; learned to row a single scull; designed and renovated two apartments; built our dream home on Gabriola; and helped community charities that are important to me, especially the Minerva Foundation, Simon Fraser University, and OVCARE, B.C.’s ovarian cancer research program. I have watched the next generation of leaders at Odlum Brown flourish, contributed to the success of four corporate boards, and spent time with close friends and family.
This is the life that was given to me because of the groundbreaking research in gynecologic cancer in our province. In 2005, I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, which is usually a death sentence for women and a huge loss for those who love their mothers, wives, daughters, sisters and friends.
How grateful I am to have survived. How blessed, how fortunate I feel to have had those 18 years. But now the cancer has returned to my body with a strength that cannot be beaten back.
In the time I have left I want to make one more investment. Like the ripples in a pond, I want the impact I have been able to make to spread even further.
I hope you will join Greg and me in contributing to further breakthroughs in ovarian cancer research and the resulting innovation in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and survivorship of women. We have created the Nancy McKinstry Endowment Fund for Ovarian Cancer Research held at the BC Cancer Foundation and Greg and I have initially seeded it with $50,000. We have set an ambitious goal to raise $250,000 in order to establish a permanent endowment to fuel this work, and to continue to attract and retain the brightest minds to the team.
FUNDRAISING GOAL: $250,000
of Goal
$291,911
Raised
$250,000.00
Supporters
Nancy & Greg McKinstry
$61,958
Bright Futures Education Fund, held at Vancouver Foundation
$25,000
Christina & Matthew Anthony
$25,000
Friends of the P.A.
$25,000
Lin and the late Phil Perceval
$10,448
Pat Jacobsen
$10,000
Danielle Melchior
$10,000
Bev Park and Jim Logan
$10,000
Elizabeth Watson & John McLean
$10,000
Odlum Brown
$10,000
Jill Leversage & David Gray
$10,000
Alice and Larry Laberge
$10,000
Anonymous
$10,000
Carole Taylor
$10,000
Bev Briscoe and Art Vertlieb
$10,000
Peter and Sandra Powell
$8,025
Susan Yurkovich and Jonathan Burke
$5,000
Mary MacDonald
$2,617
Margaret Mason and Brian Taylor
$2,500
Debra Doucette and Dana Prince
$2,500
Zdenka Buric and Alec Maclean
$2,000
JudyRogers and Grant Close
$2,000
McInnes Family
$2,000
BCIT Marketing Management Class of 2024
$1,536
Moura Quayle
$1,000
Bob and Katie Trydal
$1,000
Patricia Graham
Ray and Dawn Heysell...
$1,000
Carol Woodward
$1,000
Barbara & Bob Chase
$1,000
Marilyn and Dennis Block
$1,000
Myrna Hastings
$1,000
Ruth, John and Ranger
$500
Susan/Loch Trimingham
$500
Greg McKinstry, in memory of Helen Colcomb
$500
Marylou Chapman
$500
Julianna Zumpano
$500
Norma McLeod
$500
Nigel Wells and Alison Thomas
$500
Geoffrey, Erin & Olivia Bird
$500
Jean and Stephen Bryans
$500
Libby Gunn
$300
Kim Anh Nguyen & Thomas Chau
$300
Kirk Hill
$250
MARGARET DAVIDSON
$250
Jackie Lee-Son
$250
BOSWELL MALCOLM
$250
Michelle B
$250
Kirsty Maxwell & Phil Salt
$250
Chris Taylor & Erin Stamp
$250
The London Team
$250
Jude Briscoe
$250
John and Lynne Grant
$150
Matthew Bennett
$100
Cathy Ngo
$100
Anonymous
$100
Dale Dreffs
Donald Hickling
$100
Deborah Taylor
$100
Darci L. Swinton
$100
Gary & Jane Stamp
$100
Farah Steen
$25
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