CCRF Announces new members joining Board of Directors and Research Advisory Committee
CCRF is pleased to announce additions to the organization's board of directors, board leadership and scientific advisors. John Golden,...
2021 Hard-to-Treat Award Winners
The Hard-To-Tread Award is a grant intended to support projects that enable the prevention, early detection and effective treatment of pediatri...
Punch Pizza’s Impact on Childhood Cancer Research
Punch Pizza has partnered with CCRF since 2009 and contributed over $252,000. These funds directly support some of the most promising mind...
Dream Further Campaign hits $2 million for cancer survivorship research and care
When childhood cancer survivor Ted Sibley finished his cancer treatment as a teenager, he received a t-shirt that said, “Finish Line.” He was...
Celebrating the naming of the Katie Hageboeck Children’s Cancer Research Fund Clinic
On Wednesday, October 13, longtime members of the Children’s Cancer Research Fund community gathered to celebrate the dedication of the Katie...
Zebra Technologies and Great Cycle Challenge
CCRF’s partner, Zebra Technologies, helped month-long cycling event Great Cycle Challenge engage thousands of cyclists and raise millions of...
8 new scientists will kickstart their projects thanks to CCRF
Many great ideas go unexplored in the childhood cancer world due to a lack of funding. Thanks to donors like you, eight new projects are...
Minnesota couple’s $925,000 gift funds leading edge cancer technology at the University of Minnesota
Above: Fritz and Glenda Corrigan, pictured with their children and grandchildren. In April 2021, staff at the University of Minnesota finished ...
CCRF uses impact investments to accelerate new treatments
For researchers, it’s known as “the valley of death.” It’s the often-unfunded middle territory between the early part of research, when new...
CCRF Honors the 2020 Butterfly Award Winners
Each year, Children’s Cancer Research Fund presents Butterfly Awards to individuals, organizations and teams that have contributed significan...
CCRF announces $10.5 million in new grants
Children’s Cancer Research Fund (CCRF) is proud to award $10.5 million in its latest round of funding. The new grants support 12 research...
How a small team of livestreamers raised over $12,000 for childhood cancer research
Eleven livestreamers teamed up and raised $12,399 in just five days for their World Cancer Day campaign. We talked to three of these livestream...
Sheila McGuire Saklad – Celebrating a Legacy
Opportunities, achievements, memories and milestones - these are what Sheila and Dan Saklad always wanted to give children, and what has motiva...
Our Focus During COVID-19
Our world looks much different than it did just a few weeks ago – since COVID-19 became a pandemic, daily routines have been upended. This cr...
Gratitude, Gladness and Goodbye
Friends of CCRF, It is with an equal mix of joy and sadness to let you know that I plan to retire as CEO of Children’s Cancer Research Fund i...
Donor Profile: Blythe Brenden
When Blythe Brenden was in college, she remembers her grandfather’s requirement for each grandchild before Thanksgiving—you must do a certa...
2019 Butterfly Award Winners
Each year, Children’s Cancer Research Fund presents Butterfly Awards to individuals, organizations and teams that have contributed significan...
Dream Fund Supports 7 New Research Projects
This past April, a group of incredibly generous supporters gathered at the Armory in downtown Minneapolis to celebrate progress and invest in t...