Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual is reinforcing its commitment to fight childhood cancer with a $400,000 contribution to an innovative research program headed by national nonprofit Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation.
The funds, donated through Northwestern Mutual Foundation, will support the Young Investigator program, which equips scientists who are early in their careers with resources needed to put their research ideas in motion.
A team led by two Norwalk-based companies rallied together in the month of September to fight pediatric cancer by running 16,000 miles and raising $65,000 for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.
When Lisa Lewis’s friend told her about Alex’s Lemonade Stand Childhood Cancer Foundation five months ago, she’d never heard of it.
But once the opportunity to walk in support of a cure for cancer was presented, Lewis decided she wanted to walk 120 miles and raise $400 in support of her 12-year-old nephew.
The sixth annual Lemon Run Philadelphia, designed to raise funds and awareness for the battle against childhood cancer, returns to Memorial Hall in Fairmont Park Sunday, Nov. 9, at 8 a.m.
Rutgers University–Camden’s very own lemonade stand is open for business!
Student groups are working together to raise money for Alex’s Lemonade Stand and help support families that have children who are fighting cancer. The students built and painted a custom lemonade stand that will be set up in the Campus Center during free period once a week for the rest of the semester.
Camryn is a strong-willed and empathetic young woman who wants to spend her life helping kids through tough times. She recently graduated from Clemson University with a degree in recreational therapy and hopes of becoming a child life specialist.
