The Childhood Cancer Blog
The Childhood Cancer Blog
The holiday season puts all of us in a giving mood — and the end of the calendar year is also a deadline for charitable donations for the current tax year.
For children facing cancer, the need for more research, safer treatments, family support services and cures is ever present. By making a gift by December 31, 2022, you can help sustain research and support into 2023.
Here are six ways to make the most of your year end charitable giving.
1. Donate by December 31.
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Holiday shopping season is already in full swing! As you make your shopping lists (and check them twice!), check out our list of great gifts that help kids with cancer. When you shop with one of Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation’s (ALSF) charity partners, you know your gift gives double the joy. The receiver will love what’s inside and kids with cancer will benefit, too.
Here are some fun, unique gift ideas for your holiday shopping.
1. Jammies—for the whole family—from Little Sleepies
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Right now, Lincoln is having his last immunotherapy infusion to treatment ependymoma at a clinical trial far from home.
Give today and ALDI USA will generously match all online donations made to Giving Tuesday fundraisers for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (up to $100,000)!
Right now, Matteo continues to navigate the aftermath of kidney cancer with regular scans and constant fear of recurrence.
Right now, Jonathon is fighting a new diagnosis from cancer treatment.
Right now, Olivia is completing her final week of chemotherapy in her fight against rhabdomyosarcoma
Right now, Cole is facing cancer for the second time, 15 years after his original diagnosis with neuroblastoma.
Right now, Yash is living with a cancer predisposition that has caused him to face cancer several times.
Right now, Bernadette and her family continue to fight for cures for a rare hereditary cancer that struck Bernadette and her father.
Right now, Tamiyah’s tumors are stable, but her fight against neurofibromatosis isn’t over.
Lincoln’s battle with ependymoma, the third most common type of pediatric brain tumor, began when he was 3 years old. Treatment after treatment failed. And now, five years later, Lincoln is hopefully finishing treatment for good.
His family enrolled him in a clinical trial in Augusta, Georgia, 1,000 miles away from their home in Dartmouth, New Hampshire. The trial, which uses chemotherapy with immunotherapy to treat brain tumors, is led by Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation-funded researcher Dr. Ted Johnson. Lincoln... Read More
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