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November 2, 2009

Whimsical Wares, Arts, Gifts, and Uncommon Finds

Whimsical Wares, arts, gifts, and uncommon finds is a unique collection of art and treasures.  Whimsical Wares is celebrating its 13th annual art and gift show, which will feature 90 artists from all over.  The event will be held on November 11-15th in Marietta, GA.
The treasures available at Whimsical Wares will include photography, jewelry, green [...]

October 29, 2009

CURE’s Executive Director, Kristin Connor nominated as Star on Qdoba Mexican Grill’s Qmmunity

CURE Childhood Cancer’s Executive Director, Kristin Connor has been nominated as a Star on Qdoba Mexican Grill’s Qmmunity, an online community dedicated to celebrating the local heroes who better their own communities every day! Kristin has been nominated because of her tireless commitment to improving our community.
It only takes one second to vote.  Vote today [...]

September 23, 2009

CURE Childhood Cancer Honors Abby Smith

September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Join us today, September 23, 2009 as CURE Childhood Cancer honors CURE Kid Abby Smith. Join our fight as CURE’s Kids Conquer Cancer One Day at a Time! Donate to Abby’s Fund.
Abby Smith’s Story:
Abigail Grace Smith (aka Abby) has been battling cancer for more than half her life. In mid [...]

August 19, 2009

Leslie Zacks: An Inspiration to Us All

Leslie Zacks is on the General Counsel at Sciele Pharma, Inc., and he’s on CURE’s Board of Directors.  Below is a comment from Leslie on why he got involved with CURE Childhood Cancer.

“Children should play. They should not be forced to lie in bed worrying about white blood cell counts, tumor sizes or whether [...]

August 18, 2009

When A Friend’s Child Is Diagnosed With Cancer

Ellianne Rivers has been my friend for more than fifteen years. We met when we were about to become wives, and motherhood was a very distant thought. When she found out she was pregnant with Jake, I was thrilled. I was secretly trying to be pregnant myself and was successful just a few months later. [...]

August 4, 2009

Wondering Where CURE’s Funding Goes?

Charity Navigator is Amercia’s premier evaluator for sound fiscal management and they work to guide intelligent giving.  Charity Navigator helps charitable givers by providing information on over five thousand charities and by evaluating the financial health of each of these charities. 
Charity Navigator evaluated CURE Childhood Cancer and awarded CURE an ‘Exceptional’ 4-Star Rating—an accreditation defined [...]

July 24, 2009

Optimism is…

By Blake Sorrell
What is optimism? For the past year and a half, my sister has been dealing with something that no human being should have to go through. This thing is leukemia or what we call cancer of the blood. Leukemia is when you don’t have enough red blood cells because there are too [...]

March 9, 2009

Follow CURE Childhood Cancer on Twitter

 

 
CURE Childhood Cancer is now on Twitter and we would love for you to follow us!  We will tweet about upcoming events and news from CURE.  Click on the link below to start following!
Handle:   @CUREchildcancer
You don’t have a twitter account?  Create one, it is easy!  www.twitter.com

January 29, 2009

CURE featured on “Being the Difference”

CURE Childhood Cancer was featured yesterday by “Being a Difference” a blog committed to sharing True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World.
Click here to read the full post, which features  our Singing Valentines that make the perfect Valentines Day gift for that special someone, while benefiting CURE Childhood Cancer at [...]

November 11, 2008

Quiet Heroes Luncheon

Click below to view the video from this years 2008 Quiet Heroes Luncheon.