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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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Meet Bren Bataclan: Bringing a new, animated world to life at Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic

November 29, 2014

For more than 10 years, artist Bren Bataclan has been inspiring smiles. In the summer of 2003, he began his street art installation, “The Smile Boston Project,” which involves leaving his cartoon inspired paintings for people to enjoy for “free”…

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Patients Celebrate Halloween at Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic

October 31, 2014

While the children of Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic don’t need costumes to be considered superheroes, kids of all ages dress up for the festivities that include trick-or-treating, a pizza party, and a pumpkin-carving contest. The hospital-wide celebration begins in the…

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Meet Dr. David Barbie: Working to Find a Cure for Cancer

October 4, 2014

Doctor and researcher, David Barbie, M.D. from the Department of Medical Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is one of the millions of people that has been indirectly impacted by cancer. During his time as a student at the National Institutes…

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