CURE Childhood Cancer Annual Report 2013-2014
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Dear Friends,<br />
It is with great pride and humility that we present to you <strong>CURE</strong> <strong>Childhood</strong> <strong>Cancer</strong>’s <strong>2013</strong>-<strong>2014</strong><br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong>. We are eager to share with you the incredible difference you made over the past<br />
12 months for children with cancer and their families.<br />
With your help, we awarded nearly $2.5 million in grants to support research initiatives all with the<br />
goal of improving survival for those battling childhood cancer. Funding was awarded to scientists at<br />
the Aflac <strong>Cancer</strong> and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Winship <strong>Cancer</strong><br />
Institute, MD Anderson <strong>Cancer</strong> Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering <strong>Cancer</strong> Center and St. Jude<br />
Children’s Research Hospital. With our funds, the talented team of researchers tackled everything<br />
ranging from genetic testing and analysis to new drug therapies to survivorship issues. We funded<br />
clinical trials that are literally saving lives today.<br />
Supporting patients and their families is paramount to us, and you enabled us to do this well. In<br />
total, our busy patient and family services team-with the help of dedicated volunteers-served lunch<br />
and dinner to more than 8,000 hospitalized patients, parents, siblings and nurses. They delivered<br />
1847 brown bag lunches-more than twice as many as last year!-to parents of hospitalized children<br />
in Atlanta and Savannah, more than 476 snack bags to patients and families in Atlanta, Savannah,<br />
Augusta and Macon and more than 210 toiletry bags. We distributed 236 <strong>CURE</strong> totes at diagnosis<br />
full of practical items and tips from other families who have walked the childhood cancer journey.<br />
We awarded 188 families more than $90,000 in emergency financial assistance, and 46 families<br />
$15,000 in transportation assistance. We distributed an additional $21,950 in gas, grocery and<br />
pharmacy cards to families in need.<br />
Families let us know the difference this support made to them. One mother wrote, “Many times<br />
I am still amazed at just how many tiny little connections we have with other families who have<br />
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