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YOU Matter
Together We Win!
As a small non-profit, The Empowerment Network, (TEN) Inc. deeply appreciates the financial resources that you have made available to assist the vulnerable population of prostate cancer survivors that we serve through our various programs and outreaches. Because of you, we have stood tall.
Over the years, TEN has had to adapt to a virtual delivery of programs and services to keep the organization moving forward and keep the doors open. Our financial resources have been stretched thin as our major annual fundraiser had to be canceled in September 2020 and other key financial sources have slowed due to the pandemic.
In 2026 we face funding challenges as many organizations do due to the overwhelming need for our services and the men we support.
We’re at a crossroads. Never in the 18-year existence of The Empowerment Network has our financial need been greater.
Will you join us with your tax-deductible donation as we continue to provide hope to prostate cancer survivors and their families. Your giving will close some funding gaps.
Our primary mission is the improvement of lives through advocacy in prevention, control, cure of prostate cancer and to ultimately “Saved Lives”.
​Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Mellve A. Shahid Sr.
Founder & Executive Director
To donate, CLICK HERE
$1 Fundraiser: A Celebration of Prostate Cancer Survivorship
In 2026, Mellve A. Shahid, Sr., two-time prostate cancer survivor & advocate, Founder and Executive Director of The Empowerment Network, will celebrate 18 years of survivorship. In 2007, his doctors gave him only two
years to live following a diagnoses with an aggressive form of the disease.
With the blessing of God, he is deeply gratified to live a prostate cancer free life. To mark the milestone,
he asked friends and supporters to make a special donation of $18 - $1 for every year of being cancer
free - to the organization. Moving forward, Mellve is asking for a $1 donation for each year of his
survivorship.
Your donation will help to keep the doors of our cancer information and educational center open. To
donate simply go our website at TENStl.org, and click on the donation tab, or you can drop a check in
the mail today, payable to The Empowerment Network, Inc., 6000 West Florissant Avenue, St. Louis, MO
63136. For more details, call 314.385.0998.
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To give to the $1 FUNDRAISER, CLICK HERE, or you can drop a check in the mail today, payable to The Empowerment Network, Inc., 6000 West Florissant Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63136. For more details, call 314.385.0998.