Partner-Owner Donna Paolino Coia is honored to serve on the 2024 Prevention Party Committee for the Find the Cause Breast Cancer Foundation. Learn more about this year’s fundraiser, how to donate, and more in their most recent event committee spotlight:
Our 2024 Prevention Party Committee members are dedicated to securing support for many reasons…
As we continue to shine a spotlight on the incredible efforts of our event committee members, today we would like you to meet Donna Paolino Coia. Donna is the Partner-Owner of Paolino Properties in Providence, RI.
Read what fuels Donna’s passion for breast cancer prevention:
“I became involved with Find The Cause three years ago through my dear friend, Tricia Wynn. I met Tricia many years ago, when she was just a young woman in college.
In recent years we have reconnected and, over dinner about five years ago, she shared with me that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. I was shocked when she shared the statistic that 90% of all those diagnosed have no family history!
I know of no one in my family, as far back as my great-grandmothers, who has had breast cancer. Because of this, I thought my family had a better chance of not being diagnosed, that is until Tricia enlightened me.
This statistic frightened me. I wanted to know more and why this is happening to younger and younger women (and men).
Tricia introduced me to Find The Cause. I am so very thankful for their work and for the research being done by the Find The Cause Consortium.
I have eaten a plant-based diet for many years. I always look at food labels. I buy organic and I stay away from buying foods that are processed. With the information I have learned from Find The Cause, I have become even more vigilant.
My younger daughter Kara, a mother of two small children, keeps me on track too by sharing her research on foods, cookware, plastics, makeup, pesticides and more.
I realize that we cannot live in a bubble. Harmful chemicals are all around us. But, thanks to Find the Cause, the research they fund and their educational initiatives, I have hope that my cherished grandchildren will grow up in a safer world.”