Annual Giving
ILSSA Boston is proud to support the following charity organizations with an annual contribution. Please consider supporting them and the excellent work that they do in the Boston area.
In addition to the crushing emotional toll taken, there is a financial domino effect in having a child diagnosed with cancer. Most often, one parent must leave a job. Some treatments are not fully covered by insurance. It’s expensive to come to the city every day to be with your child – gas costs, parking fees and meals can sometimes add as much as $100 a week to a budget already cut in half. Families, once solvent, now find themselves on the financial brink.
WE CAN ALL HELP. Donations have, for example, saved a family from eviction, helped pay down overwhelming bills and paid to repair the only vehicle used to travel back and forth to the hospital. The situations are heartbreaking and all too real. In the last 4 years, including the hospital donations, Cops For Kids With Cancer have given to over 280 families in need, totaling more than$1,400,000.00 in and around New England.
The National Brain Tumor Foundation (NBTF) was founded in 1981 when Walter Newman and David and Nora Plant, feeling helpless following the loss of their sons to brain tumors, asked themselves the same question: “What can we do to help fight back against brain tumors?”
The Newmans and Plants started fundraising to help support Dr. Charles Wilson’s research lab at UCSF. Even after NBTF expanded its research grants program beyond funding solely Dr. Wilson’s lab, the organization continued to support studies at UCSF that have helped advance brain tumor research in a number of critical ways.
The Foundation’s mission was to provide comprehensive resources and support services for the brain tumor community. Throughout its nearly 30 years, the group established a number of pivotal programs for the community including the first national conference for people with the disease, a national volunteer support network, and the only searchable database of brain tumor treatment centers in the United States.
braintumor.org/