Barbara Hanania started constructing her legacy lengthy earlier than she realized it.
From her entry to the movie trade as its first feminine cinematographer to her give attention to the nonprofit enviornment in public tv to her work on many documentaries to the beneficiant present to PanCAN from her property this 12 months, Barbara’s life’s work was to enhance the world round her.
In line with that legacy, the Property of Barbara Hanania made a $500,000 present to PanCAN this 12 months, $300,000 of which was designated for a Giving Tuesday Triple Problem, meant to encourage others to do extra towards the illness. And encourage it did, because the PanCAN group rose to satisfy the problem! This beneficiant bequest follows one other present made earlier in 2023.
Barbara traveled everywhere in the world filming for reveals like “Nova,” “Eyes on the Prize” and “Frontline.” Extra in her personal phrases, from a bio she had submitted to Brandeis College, her alma mater:
“I graduated early and received a job at WGBH (Boston’s PBS station) within the movie division and labored there as a movie editor for 10 years. After deciding I might not be encased in a windowless room, I clawed my means into changing into a contract cinematographer, the place no ladies had been allowed. Fortunately, issues have improved, however not sufficient.”
Barbara handed away from pancreatic most cancers within the fall of 2022. Each her grandfather and her father additionally handed away from the illness. In actual fact, when her father was identified in 2004, she by some means discovered the nascent PALs program at PanCAN (now PanCAN Affected person Companies) and reached out for info and sources.
Life-long good friend Nick Monsma says he’s not stunned that Barbara was capable of finding such a program, even in its early levels.
“She was skilled as a scientist, then discovered her means into movie,” mentioned Nick, who was like household to Barbara. “She was some of the clever individuals I’ve ever recognized, capable of finding out something, so it makes excellent sense she would have uncovered this assist for her father.”
Nick and Barbara Epstein, co-executor of the Property of Barbara Hanania, made the selections concerning Barbara’s property collectively. The present to PanCAN adopted, in Nick’s phrases, “a circuitous route,” with three essential occasions.
Nick is shut mates with one of many founders of Stand As much as Most cancers, to whom the same present was made. She prompt Nick have a look at PanCAN, as properly. In the meantime, Barbara Epstein was doing her personal analysis and located PanCAN by means of a web based search. The circle was closed with the conclusion that Barbara Hanania herself had reached out to PanCAN so a few years in the past on behalf of her father.
What differentiated PanCAN to Nick and Barbara Epstein? The human contact.
“PanCAN’s public outreach is second-to-none. This present is about with the ability to multiply efforts and have interaction extra individuals,” Nick mentioned. “Elevating consciousness – and galvanizing others to step as much as give.”
Barbara Hanania continues to encourage by means of her life and her legacy. All the PanCAN group is grateful to Barbara and her property for his or her generosity and their confidence.