Letter to the Philanthropic Community
May 2026
Dear Philanthropic Community,
North Bay Cancer Alliance is a community-based cancer support organization dedicated to keeping patients connected to treatment. Through direct financial assistance, transportation support, lodging assistance, grocery support, and rapid-response patient aid, NBCA helps remove the practical barriers that often determine whether cancer patients can successfully remain in care.
Working in close partnership with oncology social workers and healthcare providers, NBCA supports patients across multiple healthcare systems and counties throughout Northern California, including Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, Providence, Marin Health, Stanford, UCSF, Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino, Santa Rosa Community Health and others.
NBCA’s model is intentionally lean, highly responsive, and deeply integrated into the day-to-day realities of community oncology care. The organization focuses its resources on immediate patient impact while maintaining the operational infrastructure necessary to coordinate referrals, manage transportation assistance, steward donor support, and respond quickly to urgent patient needs.
These operational functions are not peripheral overhead. They are essential cancer care access infrastructure. Research breakthroughs and advanced therapies only help patients when individuals can physically reach treatment, remain in treatment, and navigate the financial and logistical pressures that accompany a cancer diagnosis.
NBCA therefore serves as a force multiplier for the broader cancer care system. Every dollar invested in NBCA helps protect and extend the impact of the much larger investments already being made in chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy, surgery, and clinical research by ensuring patients can reliably access care.
The organization’s financial structure reflects this disciplined approach. As of April 30, 2026, NBCA maintained approximately $252,000 in total assets and only approximately $2,700 in liabilities while continuing to operate across a broad regional oncology network.
NBCA represents an important and undercapitalized layer of community cancer care infrastructure. Philanthropic investment in NBCA does not simply fund patient assistance transactions; it strengthens a trusted regional support system capable of expanding access to treatment, improving continuity of care, and helping vulnerable patients remain connected to life-saving oncology services.
At its core, NBCA exists to solve a critical problem in cancer care:
Treatment only works if patients can get there.
Kent Corley,
North Bay Cancer Alliance
Executive Director