Thank you for visiting the GIVING FORWARD page for picseez™ and She Will Always Be A Princess Babeez Cake information page.
picseez™
When a picseez™ mini session is booked, instead of sitting fee we will ask that the humble amount needed to reserve the session be made out directly to The Tara Bean Foundation. The special edition mini sessions that picseez™ will offer will be reflective of the simple but important moments of children’s lives. The same moments that some parents will not be able to experience. When all is said and done, you will have special pictures of your child to cherish for a lifetime but also know you were part of a bigger picture: helping to save the lives of other children that were not given the gift of good health.
She Will Always Be A Princess Babeez Cake™
This special edition Babeez cake was created in loving memory of Tara Katherine Bean. For every She Will Always Be A Princess Babeez Cake purchased, all proceeds will be donated to the Tara Bean Foundation. Tara always wanted to be a princess - every year at Halloween wearing a special tutu. This is our way of giving forward to the amazing work the Tara Bean Foundation continues to do and keep Tara's spirit and memory alive as "she will always be a princess”.
Not only will the friends of Bel Scriba, LLC™ and picseez™ be able to see the donations made real time, but those who would like to make a tax deductible donation directly can also do so! It is safe, secure, fast and all donations go directly to the Tara Bean Foundation.
This Foundation is near and dear to Susan's heart and in 2010 her Triathlon Team, We Tri Like Girlz, raised almost $20,000 for the Tara Bean Foundation. After witnessing first hand that every dollar makes a difference in the research and saving of both children and adults - her work for the Tara Bean Foundation has never been more important to Bel Scriba and picseez co-founder Susan Posterro.
TARA KATHERINE BEAN
February 28, 1990 - February 15, 2000
Tara Katherine Bean, of Shrewsbury, MA, was a typical, energetic fourth grader who enjoyed soccer, piano, dance lessons, skiing, reading, music, and of course - shopping at the mall! She loved and cared deeply for animals and often talked of becoming a veterinarian someday.
Although she had no symptoms, a routine school eye exam found a vision problem that let to the discovery of a brain tumor. Just three short weeks after her diagnosis, and one day after the surgery that revealed a fragile, inoperable tumor, Tara died unexpectedly from complications.
The Tara Bean Foundation Mission
To secure and allocate funds for medical research and treatment advancements.
The Tara Bean Foundation History
In the years since Tara Bean lost her battle with cancer, tremendous advances have been made in medical research. Among these advances is the completion of the detailed inventory of all the genes in the human, known as the human genome sequence. This inventory, consisting of roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code, allows doctors for the first time to understand diseases with incredible detail; at the level of precisely which genes are defective, absent or overexpressed.
Armed with this knowledge and using an array of advanced therapeutic strategies, doctors can potentially repair a patient's cells, replacing genes that are missing, and turning off genes that are hyperactive. But in order to produce and test life-saving therapies based on advances like RNAi, and completion of the human genome sequence, much more work is needed.
A quote that Tara marked in a book has become our mantra: "You can look through your tears and see a rainbow." The Tara Bean Foundation has such great hope for the research we are funding, headed by Dr. Craig Mello, 2006 Nobel Laureate at UMass Medical School.
Tara continues to inspire us to come together to help find better treatments and a cure for brain tumors. It is the hope of the Tara Bean Foundation that one day soon other children will no longer suffer from what Tara so bravely, and so suddenly, faced. Tara would have wanted it that way.