From the Desk of Don Campbell: President, Board of Directors

The last two years have represented significant growth in many ways for CURE Childhood Cancer. Under Ken Biggerstaff’s leadership as President of the Board of Directors for the past two years, CURE has achieved many accomplishments. Here is a sampling:
• Achieving 12% growth in fundraising from $1.7 million to $1.95 million, allowing CURE to increase funding [...]

What exactly does CURE Childhood Cancer fund?

CURE Childhood Cancer’s vision is to find a cure for childhood cancer in our lifetime.  We at CURE believe this is fully attainable and in efforts to get their we focus on three areas: research into childhood cancer, the most critical and urgent needs of patients and their families and eduction to support the future [...]

Catie’s Story – The Catie Wilkins Memorial Fund

Learn more about The Catie Wilkins Memorial Fund and how this awesome little girl changes our lives. 
About Catie
Catie Wilkins was the firstborn child of Tre’ and Jenny Wilkins.  A slight gross motor delay led to an eventual diagnosis of medulloblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, on her first birthday.  Catie and her family were plunged into [...]

2008 – 2009 A Year in Review

Last week, CURE Childhood Cancer’s 2008-2009 fiscal year came to a close, and what a year it was!
While the economy certainly presented unprecedented challenges, CURE remained focused on the children we serve and what they need us to be doing for them:  supporting the laborious process of laboratory research that will lead to improvements in [...]

New Childhood Cancer T-Shirts Now Available

There are now two more ways to show your support for childhood cancer research. We are pleased to share two new t-shirt designs, sales from these t-shirts will benefit CURE Childhood Cancer in their fight to find a cure for childhood cancer in our lifetime.
The first shirt reads: (front) Hope keeps us going.  (back) Research [...]

CURE Childhood Cancer Event Photos Posted

Coming off two big annual events benefiting CURE Childhood Cancer, Care Affair and Lauren’s Run, we are excited to share that photos from both events have just been posted to our website.

Click here to view the 2009  Lauren’s Run photo gallery. You may also view these photos on Facebook. Stay tuned for an update on [...]

CURE Featured in The Non-Profit Times

CURE Childhood Cancer was featured in an article Social Butterflies Can Raise Money the April 2009 issue of  The Non-Profit Times.
The article highlights the use of online and social tools that non-profit organizations are using to increase their awareness, reach and ultimately their donations. For CURE, we are currently using such online tools as Twitter, [...]

Checking in with CURE Fellows: Reflections And Goals

Two years ago, we introduced you to Dr. Tanya Watt and Dr. Wes Miller, two young doctors and extraordinary humanitarians who were entering the fellowship training program at the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. CURE Childhood Cancer fully funded this specialty training then, and has continued to [...]

CURE receives $20,000 grant from The Home Depot Foundation

The Home Depot Foundation, in partnership with the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, selected CURE Childhood Cancer along with 19 other Atlanta-area nonprofit organizations to participate in its third annual Building Community Day. Kristin Connor, Executive Director and Ken Biggerstaff, CURE Board of Directors President attended to represent CURE.
CURE is thrilled to share that the Home [...]

11th Annual Glavine’s Field of Dreams Golf Tournament raises over $185,000 for CURE

Atlanta Braves award-winning pitcher Tom Glavine and some former Braves and local celebs enjoyed a memorable day of links and laughs, all in the name of curing childhood cancer.  This year the tournament raised over $185,000!  Click here to read more about the results of the tournament.