Cleaning for a Reason (for cancer patients)

VickiSam said:

What many of we 'WARRIORS' have experienced ..
from a previous post ... page 10 of posts **submitted by Libby**

Very hit or miss
A lot of ladies here have reported being unable to get services from Cleaning for a Reason (and me too, Renee -- if I had a nickel for every email forwarded from friends telling me "you must take advantage of this wonderful service").

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Has anyone benefited from this group? Finally got all my paper work turned in and no reponse, I emailed yesterday and today was told "we are full in your area" well what areas are they NOT full in?? Kinda feeling like it was a scam!

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I just emailed them...
Libby i replied on the facebook thread about this. You know me, I cant keep my mouth shut very well when I'm bothered by something. I contacted the company, and included a link to this thread, so that they can see what we all have to say. It does seem like they are touting themselves as being such helpers & doing such a great thing, but none of us -from all over the country -have gotten their services. Participating cleaning companies do NOT get paid by Cleaning for a Reason for their services, AND they have to PAY a fee to Cleaning for a Reason to be a participating service. So it's a win/win situation for them, but the people who should be benefitting, us, aren't getting any help from them! Right before I was diagnosed, two of my friends started up a cleaning company. When I applied for cleaning help & was denied because there aren't any participating companies in my area, my friends contacted Cleaning for a Reason about participating & were told about the fees & how they work. Like someone else said, I've had countless people email me or tell me "You should check into this place, it's such a wonderful thing they do" -I always tell them exactly what I've put on here. I feel they are using the premise of helping cancer patients to make themselves look good -and that makes me mad!
*hugs*
Heather

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response from Terry Sullivan of Cleaning for a Reason ***

Cleaning For A Reason
Hi everyone,
I work at the foundation and I wanted to take a minute to let you know that I have read all of your threads and I appreciate your constructive criticism. Let me try and explain our process. Unfortunately, all of you are exactly correct. We stay full. We have 1,000 maid service partners in the U.S. and Canada and they agree to take 2 cancer patients at a time and clean for free once per month for 4 months. Most of these maid services are small companies with only 3 - 6 employees and the owners pay from their pocket all expenses when they send employees to clean a cancer patients home. We don't have the luxury of picking up the phone and calling any maid service when someone applies. We are confined to the maid services who partner with us. We do wish we had thousands more who would partner with us so that we could serve more women and we are growing as rapidly as we can to accomplish that. The truth is, the demand far exceeds our capacity and most likely always will because what we do is very labor intensive. It is our desire to serve every woman who applies and that is where our heart is. Although we have cleaned more than 5,000 homes for free since our inception in 2006, our heart breaks because there are so many more just like those of you who have expressed your disappointment. We are so sorry we couldn't help. Hope my explanation helps.
Terry

VickiSam said:

What many of we 'WARRIORS' have experienced ..
from a previous post ... page 10 of posts **submitted by Libby**

Very hit or miss
A lot of ladies here have reported being unable to get services from Cleaning for a Reason (and me too, Renee -- if I had a nickel for every email forwarded from friends telling me "you must take advantage of this wonderful service").

.....

Has anyone benefited from this group? Finally got all my paper work turned in and no reponse, I emailed yesterday and today was told "we are full in your area" well what areas are they NOT full in?? Kinda feeling like it was a scam!

....

I just emailed them...
Libby i replied on the facebook thread about this. You know me, I cant keep my mouth shut very well when I'm bothered by something. I contacted the company, and included a link to this thread, so that they can see what we all have to say. It does seem like they are touting themselves as being such helpers & doing such a great thing, but none of us -from all over the country -have gotten their services. Participating cleaning companies do NOT get paid by Cleaning for a Reason for their services, AND they have to PAY a fee to Cleaning for a Reason to be a participating service. So it's a win/win situation for them, but the people who should be benefitting, us, aren't getting any help from them! Right before I was diagnosed, two of my friends started up a cleaning company. When I applied for cleaning help & was denied because there aren't any participating companies in my area, my friends contacted Cleaning for a Reason about participating & were told about the fees & how they work. Like someone else said, I've had countless people email me or tell me "You should check into this place, it's such a wonderful thing they do" -I always tell them exactly what I've put on here. I feel they are using the premise of helping cancer patients to make themselves look good -and that makes me mad!
*hugs*
Heather

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response from Terry Sullivan of Cleaning for a Reason ***

Cleaning For A Reason
Hi everyone,
I work at the foundation and I wanted to take a minute to let you know that I have read all of your threads and I appreciate your constructive criticism. Let me try and explain our process. Unfortunately, all of you are exactly correct. We stay full. We have 1,000 maid service partners in the U.S. and Canada and they agree to take 2 cancer patients at a time and clean for free once per month for 4 months. Most of these maid services are small companies with only 3 - 6 employees and the owners pay from their pocket all expenses when they send employees to clean a cancer patients home. We don't have the luxury of picking up the phone and calling any maid service when someone applies. We are confined to the maid services who partner with us. We do wish we had thousands more who would partner with us so that we could serve more women and we are growing as rapidly as we can to accomplish that. The truth is, the demand far exceeds our capacity and most likely always will because what we do is very labor intensive. It is our desire to serve every woman who applies and that is where our heart is. Although we have cleaned more than 5,000 homes for free since our inception in 2006, our heart breaks because there are so many more just like those of you who have expressed your disappointment. We are so sorry we couldn't help. Hope my explanation helps.
Terry

Heatherbelle said:

yeah, haven't heard of any
yeah, haven't heard of any success stories regarding this organization. But kudos if you can get some help from them

mruczko said:

Cleaning for a Reason
In late fall of 2009 I contacted them after hearing from everybody, incl. my minister, to make sure I avail myself of this wonderful service. Well, duh, I never got through even though I tried for weeks, and after dirt accumulated all around me, I decided to get the neighbor's cleaning service and pay for it.
Marlene