Category Cancer Fundraising Events

Meet Sung Park: 2013 Jimmy Fund Big Ideas Contest Winner

April 4, 2015

This year’s Jimmy Fund Big Ideas Contest is underway and we’re looking to the best and brightest—YOU!—for new fundraising ideas. It’s simple: think of a new fundraiser for the Jimmy Fund—it can be an event, app, corporate program, viral campaign,…

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Jimmy Fund Clinic patient becomes face of Rally for the Jimmy Fund campaign

March 21, 2015

In December 2012, Janesa Negron was competing at the World’s Cheerleading Competition in Orlando, Florida, when she began to feel dizzy during practice. Over the next few days, she became exhausted, irritable, and didn’t feel like eating. When she returned…

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Your fundraising idea could change the lives of millions

March 16, 2015

The 2015 Jimmy Fund Big Ideas Contest is an invitation to you or a team of up to four people to form an amazing idea that will revolutionize fundraising and help the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber conquer cancer. What’s more,…

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Meet The A Team: Walking to Conquer Cancer

February 20, 2015

Since 1995, the A Team (A for Anthony) has been dedicated to supporting Dana-Farber’s lifesaving mission to conquer cancer through the Boston Marathon® Jimmy Fund Walk presented by Hyundai. More than 20 team members join Team Captain, Chris Phung, along…

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Enjoy a savory recipe now – and delectable dishes at Chefs for Jimmy

January 17, 2015

“If you have been blessed with good things in life, you are bound to return them to those in need,” explains Chef Marcel Ouimet, head chef at Chez Josef in Agawam, MA where Chefs for Jimmy’s 25th Anniversary Red Carpet…

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Mother celebrates the life of her late son by organizing her own cancer fundraising event

December 20, 2014

Dana-Farber patient Todd J. Schwartz was a 19-year-old who was passionate about helping the children at Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic. He was known for his ability to make them smile, laugh, and even forget why they were there for a…

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Five Reasons to Tune in to the WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon

August 18, 2014

In the words of Larry Lucchino, team president and CEO, as well as former patient at Dana-Farber: “The Red Sox are part of the fabric of this city and the Jimmy Fund is an inseparable part of the Red Sox.”…

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