Fighting childhood cancer, one cup at a time.
When COVID-19 forced all but essential employees to work from home, childhood cancer researchers were faced with the same shutdown. Dr. Michelle Monje, an Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF)-funded researcher who studies high-grade gliomas, had less than 12 hours to shut down her lab when California put shelter-in-place orders in effect on March 16.
Dr. Monje and her team scrambled to save the things they could not lose—like primary... Read More
Every day in the United States, 43 children are diagnosed with cancer, making it the leading cause of death by disease for children. Despite an urgent need for improved treatments, less than 4 percent of federal research funding is invested in childhood cancer research each year.
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) aims to fill the funding gap through a comprehensive grant program that funds early stage basic research all the way to clinical trials that have the potential to bring new treatments to oncology clinics for widespread use. In addition, there have been some notable... Read More
We are all at home, more than ever before! Whether your child has downtime during Zoom calls and needs a fun activity to keep them engaged or you are a teacher looking for some enrichment for your students, these free, fun downloads are just what you need to have some non-screen time fun.
These are also great activities for educational pods or traditional homeschoolers, as well as scout groups!
Here are five awesome free, educational downloads from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF):
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