Corporate Angel Network (CAN) had the most profitable year in its history last year, although it’s important to understand that the concepts of profit and loss are measured in very different ways for this organization. For the last 22 years, CAN has been helping cancer patients, many of them children, connect with business aircraft operators so they can get to treatment centers around the country.
It was in 1981 that CAN was founded by Pat Blum and Jan Weinberg, both cancer survivors, and Leonard Greene, who lost his wife to cancer. Having gone through the experience, they all knew just how emotionally difficult and financially taxing travel to and from treatment can be for people battling cancer. And because they were involved in business aviation, they also knew that business aircraft often fly with empty seats. It seemed a natural to approach flight departments and ask them to donate these empty seats to a cancer patient in need.
