Partners in Conquering Childhood Cancer
In the fi ght against cancer, we all play for the same team. by disease in children. Through gifts online, fundraising
Milestone by milestone, we are making incredible progress events in communities throughout the United States, gifts
to cure childhood cancer through research. to honor and memorialize loved ones, gifts made at work
and matched by generous employers whatever the size;
CureSearch’s partnerships with families, corporations and people are coming together with one goal in mind…to give
organizations across the country provide opportunities for children with cancer a life fi lled with milestones, potential and
caring individuals to actively participate in the search to fi nd possibilities.
a cure for childhood cancer. Their efforts help raise funds for
research and also create awareness for childhood cancer. CureSearch is grateful to all our partners for making a
tremendous impact on the lives of children battling cancer
From large cities to small rural towns, thousands of each and every day. Here are some of the wonderful
CureSearch volunteers and supporters are joining in the fi ght examples of this outpouring of generosity and support for
against childhood cancer, the number one cause of death our cause.
St. Baldrick’s Shaving the Way
along with key staff positions at
the operations center.
“How much would you
donate for childhood
In addition to its support of the
cancer research to see
cooperative research of the
me shave my head?”
COG through CureSearch, the
That’s the question
St. Baldrick’s Foundation fund
St. Baldrick’s shavees
supports hypothesis-driven
ask friends, family and coworkers – and the response is
research grants, infrastructure
overwhelming.
grants to enable institutions
Photos by Lara Kincer
to do more research, and
Student participation ranges
Since the fi rst head-shaving event on March 17, 2000 at Jim
fellowships and scholar awards
from elementary schools to
Brady’s pub in Lower Manhattan, over 2,300 St. Baldrick’s
colleges, with over 120 school
to train the next generation of
events have been held, raising over $67 million to support
events and teams in 2008. pediatric oncology researchers.
childhood cancer research.
Since 2005, the fi rst year the head-shaving events were
With more than 105,000 heads shaved since 2000, many
run by the new St. Baldrick’s Foundation, CureSearch has
ask what happens to all that hair. “The important thing,”
received a total of over $18.4 million to support the COG.
said Becky Chapman Weaver, Chief Philanthropy Offi cer of
(In June 2009, another $4.6 million grant brings this total to
the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, “is what happens to all the
over $23 million.)
money raised by our enthusiastic, dedicated – and mostly
bald! – volunteers.”
The St. Baldrick’s Foundation remains the largest single
source of private funds supporting the Children’s
Of the $17.4 million raised by the St. Baldrick’s Foundation
Oncology Group.
in 2008, $6.1 million was granted to CureSearch to support
the Children’s Oncology Group’s research to fi nd new
cures and better
treatments for
children with cancer.
COG member
institutions received
funds to help treat
more children on
clinical trials, their
best hope for
a cure. Several
Rachel Kemble Photography
disease-specifi c
St. Baldrick’s shavees raise funds for research
Craig Mitchelldyer Photography
COG laboratories and go bald in solidarity with children who lose
their hair to cancer treatments.
In 2008, 568 St. Baldrick’s head-shaving events were held across the
were also funded,
globe with over 2,400 female shavees.
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