The CIS Pacific Partnership Program team . . . when we were still a team.

Now former employees of the CIS Pacific Partnership Program, after the last contract work day.

January 14, 2010 has finally rolled around – the last day of the contract period nationwide for the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service Partnership Program. It’s a sad day for the 70+ federal contract employees who have been a part of the program (I left the program four months ago for another job in cancer research because the program was ending, after having a year-and-a-half as a partnership program coordinator), but really, it’s more of a loss for the cancer community as a whole. The CIS Partnership Program was the link between NCI and its community partners. It’s hard to explain what we did on a daily basis, but the partners know, and many of them wrote letters, made calls and otherwise tried hard to save the program. Unfortunately, the decision to end it was an executive one, and the executive who made that decision – well, let’s just say he still gets to report to his same job in the D.C. area tomorrow.

Rest in peace, CIS Partnership Program.