Social impact company Connect & Thrive (CAT), based in Greater Boston, Massachusetts, is providing integrative therapy practitioners with a unique opportunity to join a vetted community offering evidence-based healing modalities to assist women with cancer. By integrating crowdfunding with an ecommerce marketplace, CAT enables patients to raise an average of approximately $12,000 through the KittyFund campaigns, giving them the financial means to invest in services and products that support their healing journey.

Funds raised via KittyFunds allow patients to access a carefully curated marketplace, where many trusted partners and other healthcare advocates offer evidence-based healing modalities and healthy living products. CAT also offers referral services for clients without KittyFunds, including previvors, thrivers and caregivers. For integrative therapy practitioners, partnering with CAT bolsters patient empowerment while offering significant value and financial accessibility to those in need.

At its core, CAT’s mission helps women connect with a supportive community of practitioners and providers so they can truly thrive. In the future, CAT will utilize artificial intelligence to recommend healing modalities based on patients’ symptoms and side effects; provide references to cutting-edge research including advancements in prevention and early detection; and offer resources, organizations, financial assistance and informative events. These efforts will help strengthen the CAT community, bringing members closer together and enhancing support for women on their healing journeys.