Who We Give To

Fund Allocations and Designations

Following is a list of donations that we have made towards the fight against cancer:

Alameda County Healthcare Foundation

  • $25,000 Spanish speaking Cancer Navigator at Highland Hospital

Alta Bates Summit Foundation – Markstein Cancer Education and Prevention Center

  • $12,480 for Follow-up Coordinator for clinic patients
  • $11,278 for Skin Cancer Screening Clinic
  • $7,915 for Skin Chat Seminars
  • $3,000 to Carol Ann Read Breast Health Center for Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Initiative
  • $2,500 for Skin Cancer Screening Program

American Cancer Society

  • $5,000 for reformatting, reproduction and distribution of the movie, “How I Coped When Mommy Died”
  • $5,000 for the Young Cancer Survivor Scholarship Program

Bay Area Tumor Institute

  • $75,000 for expansion of the SELECT Prostate Cancer Trial
  • $41,000 for a Clinical Research Associate, Radiation Oncology Trials – Head and Neck
  • $40,250 for long-term tamoxifen therapy for breast cancer prevention
  • $40,000 for Oncology Nursing
  • $38,750 offering breast cancer patients the best research trials
  • $30,000 for Breast Cancer: Who benefits from Chemotherapy?
  • $30,000 for the Melanoma Patient Consultation Program
  • $20,000 to Highland Hospital, State-of-the-Art Cancer Care for low-income and underserved patients
  • $15,000 honoring Ernie Bodai, M.D., for administration of NCI-sponsored Prostate Cancer Prevention Trials
  • $l0,000 – When the Best Treatment is Free – but Too Hard to Reach in honor of Dale Block
  • $5,000 for services to leukemia patients in honor of Robert Lambing
  • $5,000 for program in support of patient dilemmas, selecting therapy for breast and prostate cancer

Camp Okizu

  • $45,000 Week long camp for 20 Bay Area children with cancer
  • $35,000 continued one week oncology camp support - Bay Area children with cancer
  • $12,125 Bus transportation for Bay Area Children who are going to Camp Okizu

Carol Ann Reed Center

  • $12,000 for Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Initiative

Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic

  • $25,000 Complementary Clinic: Program Medical Expenses
  • $15,000 for alternative care for low-income women with advanced cancer

curebreastcancer.com

  • $1,875 In-kind donation of Breast Cancer Stamp silk scarves

East Bay Agency for Children

  • $45,000 to Circle of Care Grief and Illness Support for Children and Families (formerly PediatriCare)
  • $15,000 for a full-time program director for the Circle of Care Grief and Illness Support for Children and Families
  • $5,000 for Little’s Project for Grief and Illness Support
  • $3,000 special contribution on Andronico’s behalf

George Mark Children’s House

  • $40,000 Pediatric End of Life Care Program—certified nurse assistant
  • $24,500 Pediatric Palliative End of Life Care Program
  • $20,000 for family suite use for respite and End of Life Care Program
  • $12,426 for multi-sensory room equipment
  • $7,500 for music therapy room equipment

Healing Journeys

  • $15,000 for “Cancer as a Turning Point, from Surviving to Thriving” San Francisco, 2006

Stanford University

  • $18,000 Predicting VTE (venous thomboembolism) Risk in gastrointestinal cancer patients using plasma biomarkers
  • $17,500 for individualizing treatment for Colorectal Cancer Based on Tumor Hypoxia in honor of Barbara Rogers

Sutter VNA

  • $36,000 for patient care—advanced illness management

The Sarcoma Alliance

  • $6,000 to advance research and support

UC Berkeley Cancer Research Labs

  • $25,000 for a study of the tumor suppressor gene PTEN
  • $6,500 for seminar on Clinical Breast Cancer Examination

UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center

  • $52,000 for detecting early breast cancer (secreted proteins)
  • $52,000 for early detection of in-situ pre-malignant lesions and precursors
  • $50,000 to the Cancer Research Institute/Breast Oncology Program for cancer genetics and gene targeted therapy
  • $50,000 for fractionation of chinese herbal phytoestrogens research in honor of Joanie Jones
  • $46,800 for detection of neuroblastoma using peripheral blood proteomics
  • $42,000 for Adenovirus – Based Stem Cell Directed Therapies for Colorectal Cancer in honor of Sarah Abel and Chris Coiteux
  • $40,000 for research on the regulation of genes—selective phytoestrogens in breast cancer cells
  • $35,000 for research targeting variant mammary epithelial cells
  • $34,125 determining the best treatment protocol for "Intermediate Risk" Acute Myelogenous Leukemia Patients
  • $31,200 for Molecular Mechanism of BRaf & KRas-induced Lung Cancers
  • $30,000 for novel delivery of therapies for brainstem glioma in honor of Tiffanie Kalmbach
  • $30,000 for Cervical Cancer Zoledronic Acid Clinical Research Fund
  • $30,000 to the Carol Frank Buck Breast Center for the cancer registry for clinical trials
  • $25,000 for Ovarian Preservation and Prevention in Women treated for Lymphoma and Leukemia
  • $25,000 Identification and Characterization of Cancer Precursors
  • $25,000 to the Cancer Risk Program Community Education Seminar Series
  • $20,532 for Pediatric Oncology palliative care specialist
  • $16,690 for Benefits & Health Insurance Counseling and Education Program
  • $15,750 Small Molecule Inhibitors in Wnt and Sonic Hedgehog Signaling
    (lung cancer focus and applicability to other cancers, including: breast, colon and pancreatic)
  • $15,000 to Gynecologic Oncology: colposcopic technology for cervical cancer screening
  • $15,000 to the Cancer Risk and Genetic Counselor Program
  • $15,000 to the Melanoma Center: NF-kB as a novel molecular prognostic factor for malignant melanoma
  • $15,000 to Thoracic Oncology: Wnt pathway signaling in lung cancer
  • $12,000 for breastcancertrials.org
  • $11,000 Peer Support Program Database at the Cancer Resource Center
  • $10,801 for the Comprehensive Nutrition Program for cancer patients
  • $10,000 to underwrite the cost of operating a mammovan
  • $9,000 to study the effects of Chinese herbs on ovarian cancer
  • $2,100 to Project JUMP in the name of Andronico’s Market
  • $900 donation of breast cancer stamp scarves for gift shop

The Wellness Community/San Francisco East Bay

  • $8,100 for Mindfulness Meditation Series for cancer patients
  • $6,000 to support services for cancer patients and their families
  • $5,000 for Young Adult Cancer Support Group
  • $3,000 for a Compassionate Communications Series Program for cancer patients