September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Give today to fuel research and help kids take back the moments cancer tries to steal
This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, join St. Baldrick’s Backpack Challenge — a new initiative inspired by a breakthrough for kids with cancer. Take on the challenge and help fund cures for kids who still need them, while standing in solidarity every step of the way.
Take Childhood Back from Cancer
Take Childhood Back from Cancer
This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, join St. Baldrick’s Backpack Challenge — a new initiative inspired by a breakthrough for kids with cancer. Take on the challenge and help fund cures for kids who still need them, while standing in solidarity every step of the way.
It started with a friendly dare: would you shave your head and donate money to kids' cancer research? What happened next would change the world.
Childhood cancer research is powered by you. Shave your head, start an event, or raise money your way.
Be a part of the grassroots movement to make childhood cancer research funding a national priority.
Meet our Ambassadors, see how families of kids with cancer can get involved or start a fund in memory of someone you love.
We do one thing and we do it well: we fund the best childhood cancer research. Because kids with cancer need cures now.
Worldwide, a child is diagnosed with cancer every 2 minutes. It’s real, it’s ugly and we’re here to do something about it.
Give today to fuel research and help kids take back the moments cancer tries to steal
Check out 7 ways you can get involved for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
Because of supporters like you, $10 million in new grants is fueling the research that gives kids more hope.
The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a volunteer and donor powered charity committed to supporting the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.
It affects kids from all walks of life, whether they’re learning to walk or learning to drive, live in big cities or small towns, have brown eyes or blue eyes. It doesn’t discriminate based on ethnicity, gender, or socio-economic status. Kids with cancer deserve a lifetime and are the heart of the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
Since 2005, we’ve invested over $368 million in childhood cancer research grants worldwide. It’s about collaboration. It’s about powerful ideas, big and small. It’s about never giving up until we have cures for all kids with cancer.
See the ImpactThat’s right, 100% of our donations come from extraordinary people like you. We take great care to invest your dollars wisely because we know kids’ lives are at stake.
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