Category News and Announcements

“#MyJokeForJimmy” Wins the Jimmy Fund Big Ideas Contest

June 11, 2015

Laughter truly is the best medicine…or, at least, it’s a great premise for a fundraising idea to conquer cancer. On June 10, five Jimmy Fund Big Ideas Contest finalists—the best of more than 200 contest submissions from across the U.S.—presented…

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Top five ways to reduce your risk of melanoma

May 4, 2015

In honor of Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month we sat down with Dana-Farber dermatologist, Jennifer Lin, MD, from the Melanoma Treatment Center at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, to discuss ways to protect your skin and reduce your risk of…

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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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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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Patients Celebrate Pig Day: A Jimmy Fund Clinic Tradition

March 7, 2015

Seven years ago, Martha Young, Program Manager of Patient and Family Education at Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic, met a young patient who shared her same unique love for pigs. Together, they discovered the seldom-celebrated holiday, National Pig Day, and came…

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Red Sox rookies bring smiles to patients at the Jimmy Fund Clinic

February 13, 2015

Nine-year-old Ethyn Yates has traveled twice to Dana-Farber from his native Australia in the past three years, and both times the Boston Red Sox have made the nearly 11,000-mile trip less scary. Yates, who had a stem cell transplant at…

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Jimmy Fund #MomentsWeLove from 2014

January 10, 2015

The doors at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are open three-hundred and sixty-five days a year. Twenty-four hours a day patients, families, doctors and donors fill our halls and help us pave a path of progress in the fight against cancer. Thanks…

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