Holiday Backpacks
Thank You - our holiday backpack program was a great success!
We exceeded our goal and delivered well over 200 smiles to kids undergoing cancer treatment this holiday season! Holiday backpacks were delivered to the Jimmy Fund Clinic at Dana-Farber, Baystate's Pediatric Cancer Center in Springfield, Weil Cornell in NYC, Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Children's Hospital at Dartmouth and Children's Hospital LA as well as many to individual kids we have connected with. A message from one Mom "my daughter is newly diagnosed and receiving your backpack the day of her treatment helped make a difficult day a little easier".
Winter WIshes Ball at Anna Maria College Sat Dec 7th a great success!
AYJ Fund joins the AMC Campus Princess Program
Congratulations to the AMC Campus Princess Program and Program and Activities Council for hosting such a fun and successful event. Special thanks to Alyssa Banks and Jacob Boillat and all the Princesses and Superheroes who attended. Music, dancing, beautiful decorations and themed fabulous food made the evening so fun for the young kids as well as so many students who attended. This event exceeded everyones expectations! All proceeds will be delivered to the Jimmy Fund Clinic in person in January and will bring so many smiles to kids in treatment.
International GC Pediatric Research Conference
AYJ Fund a lead sponsors
AYJ Fund was proud to be a lead sponsor of the 3rd International Conference on Gliomatosis Cerebri in Barcelona Spain on Sept 22nd and 23rd. This conference brought the leading pediatric neurooncologists, neurosurgeons, researchers and families of children with GC together to share discoveries, collaborate on research, and plan next steps to find effective treatments for children diagnosed with this brain tumor that Anna fought. Participants are from all over Europe, both North and South America and the Middle East attended.
Once Upon a Dream - Thank You!
Children's Concert with the Princesses
Our Disney Princesses were back to join the MCLA Allegrettos and Sam Talora and Ron Ramsay and Jennie Collins, a talented music student for an afternoon of Children's songs on Saturday Oct 26th at the MCLA Church St Center, North Adams. This event was magical for the little kids and big kids as well! We are grateful to all who made this special day possible. Check out the fabulous pictures at the AYJ Fund's Facebook page.
AYJ Fund Wine, Craft Beer & Chocolate Tasting - Thanks!
Thanks to everyone who helped make both our Brighton and North Adams events so successful! We had a wonderful time and were so happy that so many of our friends came out to join us. We loved having so many who joined us for the first time along with so many great long time supporters. We loved hearing from Dr Mimi Bandopadhayay in Brighton of Dana-Farber who shared how important family foundations like the AYJ Fund are to continuing the work in the lab.