Be Loud! Sophie Foundation
US nonprofit organization
The Be Loud! Sophie Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, which supports care for young adults with cancer at UNC Hospitals. It was established by the family of Sophie Steiner, who died from cancer at the age of 15. Its major event is an annual concert at Cat's Cradle, a music venue in the neighboring town of Carrboro.
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In 2012, 14-year-old Sophie Steiner, a freshman at East Chapel Hill High School, was diagnosed with metastatic germ-cell cancer, and died ten months later on August 30, 2013. Be Loud! targets an area which Steiner called the "no-man's land" between pediatric and adult oncology. Her mother told Indy Week: We were so panicked by Sophie's health; I don't know that we cared that much at that point. You're in the hospital, and they want to entertain you to the extent that they can. And so the people who knock on the door, the creative arts people, the librarian—there's a lot of things like that at Children's Hospital.
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