The St Baldrick's Foundation

[Ezra Yesterday]

As some of you may know, I participate in the St. Baldrick’s Foundation fundraising event in my city every year; this will be my fifth year participating. For those who don’t know about St Baldrick’s, we hold events where volunteers have their heads shaved to raise money for Children’s Cancer Research. The purpose is to both take donations and to show solidarity with young kids who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments.

Worldwide, more than 175,000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year—that’s nearly the entire population of Jackson, Mississippi. And cancer doesn’t care about borders, race, nationality, age, socio-economic level or religion—it can strike any child at any time.

About 60% of all funding for drug development in adult cancers comes from pharmaceutical companies. For kids? Almost none, because childhood cancer drugs are not profitable. This is where St Baldrick’s comes in; we are a volunteer-driven charity dedicated to raising money for life-saving childhood cancer research and funds more in childhood cancer grants than any organization except for the U.S. government. Since the Foundation's first grants as an independent charity in 2005, St. Baldrick's has funded more than $101 million to support the most brilliant childhood cancer research experts in the world.

At the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, we do one thing, and we do it well: We fund childhood cancer research.

• Our mission is to find cures for childhood cancers and to give survivors long and healthy lives.
• We are the largest private (non-government) funder of childhood cancer research grants.
• By funding cooperative research through the Children’s Oncology Group, we give kids nationwide access to the very latest in research and clinical trials.
• Thanks to a grant review system that impresses the experts, we fund only the very best childhood cancer research.

So, Please donate on my Participant Webpage and encourage your friends and family to both give and to pass this on as well, so that we can help to conquer cancer in children.

Thanks.