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MISSION & VISION
The Vs. Cancer Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to saving kids’ lives by empowering athletes and communities to fund lifesaving childhood cancer efforts.
LETTER FROM THE FOUNDER & CEO
“Diego! Diego!”
It’s not often you hear a group of college athletes, usually on the receiving end of traditional chants, all yelling the name of an eight-year-old. This was different though, as Diego happened to be an eight-year-old who became the adopted fandom of Duke University Baseball, who had just completed their third year of raising thousands of dollars for
the Vs. Cancer Foundation and for kids just like Diego.
Where we stand now, in our third year of Vs. Cancer actively battling cancer, is where I also stand proud: our progression of impact is no longer just a ‘feel good story’ of thousands of athletes and communities rallying around helping every aspect of childhood cancer; rather, it is now a story of legitimate impact. Diego, who was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2013, was treated at one of the 58 children’s hospitals Vs. Cancer has helped since our inception. Diego was on the receiving end of the funds that the Duke Baseball community raised, and proudly, he walked away as a cancer survivor.
While the team shouted Diego’s name, the same scene was happening at literally hundreds of ball parks, lacrosse fields, stadiums and campuses nationwide. Started by athletes and made for athletes, Vs. Cancer is proving that we can and will help create more stories just like Diego’s. We CAN and WILL beat childhood cancer.
To that, we will continue chasing this dream that no child has to hear the words of a diagnosis and fear the outcome, all the while acknowledging that truly, if you are reading this, YOU make this dream actually happen.
Cheers to making more dreams come true, for Diego and the 40,616 other children that have a better chance to beat cancer because of you and Vs. Cancer.
Chase JonesFounder & CEO, Vs. Cancer Foundation
LOCAL HOSPITAL PROGRAMSAlbany Medical CenterAll Children’s Hospital
Alliance for KidsBrenner Children’s HospitalChildren’s Cancer Network
Children’s Healthcare of AtlantaChildren’s Hospital at Montefiore
Children’s Hospital at OU Medical CenterChildren’s Hospital King’s Daughters
Children’s Hospital of AlabamaChildren’s Hospital of Atlanta
Children’s Hospital of PhiladelphiaChildren’s Hospital of Pittsburg
Children’s Hospital of West VirginiaChildren’s Medical Center
Children’s Medical Center Umass MemorialChildren’s National Medical Center
Childrens Hospital of IllinoisCincinnati Children’s HospitalColorado Children’s HospitalDana-Farber Cancer CenterDayton Childrens’ Hospital
Dell Children’s HospitalDuke Children’s Hospital
East Tennessee Children’s HospitalFriends of Kids with Cancer
GHS Children’s HospitalGolisano Children’s HospitalHasbro Chidren’s Hospital
Hershey-Penn State Children’s HospitalHugs for Harper FoundationKentucky Children’s Hospital
Lehigh Valley Children’s HospitalLevine Children’s HospitalLLS - Maryland Chapter
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
HOW WE HELP: THE HALF & HALF MODEL
2014 EXPENSE RATIOS
MANAGEMENT/GENERAL4.54%
CHILDHOOD CANCER EFFORTS 84.29%
FUNDRAISING11.17%
For the year ended December 31st, 2014 Total Support & Revenue $944,704 EXPENSES:Childhood Cancer EffortsFundraising Management & General Total Expenses Net Assets Beginning of Year $24,927 Net Assets End of Year $72,050
STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES
$756,574 $100,263 $40,744 $897,581
OUR REACH IN 2014-2015
LOCAL HOSPITAL PROGRAMS NATIONAL RESEARCH
28 STATES
63 HOSPITALS
40,617 CHILDREN IMPACTED
RAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN’S HOSPITALHow best to use the body’s own immune system to fight aggressive and metastatic cancers
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF ALABAMATargeting Pediatric Medulloblastoma with Engineered Herpes Simplex Virus
LINEBERGER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTERUnderstanding how genetic change in tumor cells changes the way that DNA is organized in the cell nucleus in a fundamental way, eventually giving the ability to develop novel therapeutics to target these processes.
FRED HUTCHISON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER Project Violet: Tumor Paint BLZ-100, initiate a trial in pediatric patients
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERNanotube-mediated siRNA delivery system in the treatment of neuroblastoma
SEATTLE CHILDREN’S HOSPITALEffects of pediatric brain tumors on Natural Killer cell function
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Targeting Dihydroceramide Desaturase in Neuroblastoma
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER New Synergistic drug combinations for the treatment of T-ALL
STANFORD UNIVERSITY Functional analysis of the H3.3-K27M mutation in glioma-derived iPS cells
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL BOSTONThe role of ATRX and H3.3 mutations in pediatric glioblastoma
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMTargeting Pediatric Medulloblastoma with Engineered Herpes Simplex Virus
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M.D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTERPre-clinical and Clinical Investigations of REST in Medulloblastoma
ANN & ROBERT H. LURIE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO Investigating New Therapeutic Targets for Malignant Rhabdoid Tumors
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, PEDIATRIC RESEARCH FELLOW, V FOUNDATION Dissecting and Targeting the WNT Pathway in Metastatic Osteosarcoma
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAPediatric Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium
CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA/AFLAC CANCER CENTERInternational Germinoma Tumor Collaboration
V FOUNDATION, PEDIATRIC HEMOTOLOGY/ONCOLOGY FELLOWSHIP COLLABORATION
Albany Medical CenterAll Children’s Hospital
Alliance for KidsBrenner Children’s HospitalChildren’s Cancer Network
Children’s Healthcare of AtlantaChildren’s Hospital at Montefiore
Children’s Hospital at OU Medical CenterChildren’s Hospital King’s Daughters
Children’s Hospital of AlabamaChildren’s Hospital of Atlanta
Children’s Hospital of PhiladelphiaChildren’s Hospital of Pittsburg
Children’s Hospital of West VirginiaChildren’s Medical Center
Children’s Medical Center Umass MemorialChildren’s National Medical Center
Childrens Hospital of IllinoisCincinnati Children’s HospitalColorado Children’s HospitalDana-Farber Cancer CenterDayton Childrens’ Hospital
Dell Children’s HospitalDuke Children’s Hospital
East Tennessee Children’s HospitalFriends of Kids with Cancer
GHS Children’s HospitalGolisano Children’s HospitalHasbro Chidren’s Hospital
Hershey-Penn State Children’s HospitalHugs for Harper FoundationKentucky Children’s Hospital
Lehigh Valley Children’s HospitalLevine Children’s HospitalLLS - Maryland Chapter
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
Luna CaresMayo Clinic Cancer Center
MD Anderson Cancer CenterMe Fine Foundation
Midwest Children’s Brain Tumor CenterMission Children’s Hospital
Morgan Stanley Children’s HospitalMorristown Medical Center
MU Children’s HospitalNationwide Children’s Hospital
NC Children’s PromiseNemours: Children’s Health System
Ochsner Children’s HospitalOmaha Children’s Hospital
Palm Beach Children’sRady Children’s HospitalRiley Children’s Hospital
Scott and White Children’s HospitalSeattle Children’s Hospital
St. Jude’s Children’s HospitalSt. Louis Children’s Hospital
St. Peter’s Children’s HospitalStaten Island University Hospital
Sutter Children’s CenterTampa General Hospital
The Brooklyn Hospital CenterThe V Foundation
UAB Cancer CenterUCLA-Mattell Children’s HospitalUNC Lineberger Cancer Center
Vidant HealthWomen and Children’s Hospital University
of MissouriWVU Children’s Hospital
Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital
HOW WE HELP: THE HALF & HALF MODEL
50%Half of fundraising efforts support LOCAL pediatric oncology programs 50%
Half of fundraising efforts fund national cancer research efforts
CHILDHOOD CANCER EFFORTS 84.29%
FUNDRAISING11.17%
For the year ended December 31st, 2014 Total Support & Revenue $944,704 EXPENSES:Childhood Cancer EffortsFundraising Management & General Total Expenses Net Assets Beginning of Year $24,927 Net Assets End of Year $72,050
STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES
YOUTH LEAGUE ATHLETICS
1. West Raleigh Baseball: $52,7422. North Wake Baseball, $20,0003. Carolina Blue Sox Baseball: $7,131
HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS
1. Harvard-Westlake School: $18,4562. Northern Guilford High School: $10,5543. Woodinville High School: $8,259
COLLEGE ATHLETICS
1. Elon University Baseball: $30,3892. University of Oklahoma Baseball: $28,0003. Furman University Baseball: $25,2854. Yale University Lacrosse: $22,8235. Colgate University Lacrosse: $20,475
TOP FUNDRAISING TEAMS
WHY CHILDHOOD CANCER?
175,
000 c
hildren are diagnosed with cancer every year world
wide.
sparing no ethic group, gender, socioeconomic class or
geographical area
CHILDHOOD CANCER OCCURS RANDOMLY
23
of childhood cancer survivors experience long-term issues stemming from their original treatment
$ YEARLY, LESS THAN 5% OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S CANCER RESEARCH FUNDING IS DEDICATED TO CHILDHOOD CANCER
childhood cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in
children & adolescents
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