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