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Amber smiles and stands on-field at Polar Park in Worcester, Massachusetts holding up a red Jimmy Fund baseball jersey.
  • Cancer Awareness

Working to defy cancer: meet Amber Forrence

This post is part of a series highlighting staff members within Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & The Jimmy Fund’s Division of Philanthropy, to give supporters an inside peek at life at New England’s favorite charity. Today, we’re talking to Amber Forrence,…

  • Jimmy Fund Blog Developer
  • August 16, 2022
Student honors friend with concert for pediatric cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • Cancer Fundraising Events, Cancer Patient Stories, Youth

Student honors friend with concert for pediatric cancer research

Ashwin Hazarika, a high school student from Columbia, Md., started thinking about opportunities to fundraise to support cancer research after his friend, Jamie, was diagnosed with pediatric sarcoma, a bone cancer. He initially planned to organize a virtual event on…

  • Jimmy Fund Blog Developer
  • August 10, 2022
WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon presented by Arbella Insurance
  • Cancer Fundraising Events

20 years of hope broadcast live from Fenway Park

Since 2002, the WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon presented by Arbella Insurance has been a summer tradition for the Jimmy Fund, WEEI, NESN, and all of Red Sox Nation. As we celebrate 20 years of this inspirational event in 2022, we…

  • Jimmy Fund Blog Developer
  • August 8, 2022
Family hosts first annual 5K to advance colorectal cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • Cancer Fundraising Events

Family hosts first annual 5K to advance colorectal cancer research

Jacqueline Hanson’s brother Blake was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic colorectal cancer at age 38. She describes Blake as an adventure seeker, who travelled the world, loved his family and friends, and was fiercely competitive, which largely contributed to his…

  • Jimmy Fund Blog Developer
  • August 3, 2022
Natalie Daverio
  • Cancer Patient Stories, Why I Run for Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund

Breast cancer patient gives back by running the ASICS Falmouth Road Race

Natalie Daverio is running her first ASICS Falmouth Road Race with Dana-Farber’s team this August. She ran the race on her own in 2021, after getting into running to stay active throughout the pandemic. That race came with a bit…

  • Jimmy Fund Blog Developer
  • July 29, 2022
Cosenzi siblings
  • Cancer Fundraising Events

Siblings host a charity golf tournament to honor their father

“It’s really hard to describe the relationship that my family had with my father’s care team during such a hard time. We started a charity golf tournament to honor his memory because Dana-Farber is such a special place to us,”…

  • Jimmy Fund Blog Developer
  • July 12, 2022
Christine and family
  • Cancer Patient Stories

Mom of three shares advice on navigating cancer with children

Christine Danielson had just stopped breast feeding her third child when she noticed a lump in her left breast that she had never felt before. “I had my husband feel it,” she says, “and he thought it was odd, but…

  • Jimmy Fund Blog Developer
  • July 11, 2022
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