I have met so many people in a decade of interviewing nonprofit founders but a select few have left a real lasting impression and Roberta Lombardi of Infinite Strength is one of them. We hadn’t spoken in a few years and I wanted to touch base and see what she was up to, you may remember her remarkable story.

The impact on you mentally and emotionally adds up. I had scars from the mastectomy, my stomach was bloated, I had a facial rash from the drugs, and then l I lost all my hair. After finishing my course of chemotherapy, I was an absolute mess. I was drained, exhausted, I didn’t look good and I didn’t feel good about myself.

“I was in complete desperation and in danger of being evicted and I came across the Infinite Strength Foundation website,” said White. “I just wrote a long email and explained my situation, and [the foundation’s founder] Roberta Lombardi contacted me. She’s like an angel who came out of nowhere.”

Claire Paxman live with Roberta Lombardi of Infinite Strength where they talk about the incredible foundation and how it was born from Roberta's experience of cancer, #scalpcooling and more!

From a very young age I struggled with body image. My mother struggled with her weight after having children and projected that onto her daughters. I was told I was chubby even when I was not, and as such I never saw myself as thin even at those times in my life when I was.

Roberta is a three-year breast cancer survivor and founder and president of Infinite Strength, a nonprofit that provides financial assistance to underserved/underinsured women diagnosed with breast cancer. Many of the women helped by her organization are single mothers who are financially disadvantaged and/or below the poverty level.

Seasons Magazine features a number of organizations that do remarkable work for the community. Infinite Strength is being featured this month and Founder and President Roberta Lombardi tell us all about her non-profit.

Today I am honored to share the story of an amazing woman and the work she is doing. Meet Roberta Lombardi, who started the nonprofit, Infinite Strength. Like many women I have met over the years, Roberta went through something terrible and survived. Then she took her experience and the things she learned and discovered and created something to make going through that same thing easier for other women.

Wanting to give back to Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven Health, Lombardi in February 2018 founded Infinite Strength, a nonprofit that raises funds to support survivors. She put her event planner skills to work and created the fundraising gala “An Evening in Pink” in May 2018 and raised $50,000. The 2019 gala raised even more.

There are over 3.5 million breast cancer survivors in the United States and one of them is Roberta Lombardi. She is an incredible woman who I met through the Female Founder Collective recently.

The definition of family can be different for all of us, but for some, family ties are forged from sharing the struggles of a disease that leaves scars beyond the physical.

It’s true that I’m not the same person I was before breast cancer, but I’ve created something positive out of that reality — for myself and for my family. The legacy of cancer I am passing on to my children is different than the one my family left me.

Roberta Lombardi is incredible, having survived breast cancer and now focuses her time on Infinite Strength, which is an organization that helps women going through cancer treatment and raises money through different events!

A woman with no hair, eyebrows or eyelashes. A woman who was once referred to as pretty, but now loathed herself when she looked in the mirror. That woman was me.

Roberta Lombardi of Madison, president and founder of Infinite Strength, presented the $53,000 check to Smilow to be used at the main location in New Haven, as well as Smilow’s Cancer Care Centers across the state.

Abreast cancer diagnosis is not something that people plan for. “You don’t think it will happen to you,” says Roberta Lombardi, founder of Infinite Beauty and breast cancer survivor. Her world was rocked by her own diagnosis two years ago, and now she has set out to lessen the burden that other women in the same position face.

Bra design and engineering are complex fields in fashion. There are a lot of factors involved in a bra’s physical and emotional support for a consumer, but what happens when the consumer has battled breast cancer and undergone numerous surgeries?

After 14 months of treatment, including a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and reconstructive surgery, Roberta Lombardi found that her body didn’t look or feel the same, and shopping for a normal bra was increasingly difficult.

Roberta Lombardi endured 14 months of treatment for HER 2 positive breast cancer including surgery to remove a tumor and chemotherapy, followed by reconstructive surgery with silicone implants. She couldn’t understand why she felt freezing cold, even indoors, and why she’d experience chest spasms.

A breast cancer diagnosis is a physical and emotional struggle. The financial burden many people face, only makes it harder. Roberta Lombardi decided to help people in need by starting the non-profit Infinite Strength. She dealt with her own invasive breast cancer diagnosis, undergoing chemotherapy, other cancer treatments, and a double mastectomy.