Causes: Health

Mission: The mission of the organization is to support the cancer community in minnesota by funding research, prevention, treatment and community outreach programs relating to cancer.

Programs: Grants of over $400,000 went to numerous cancer researchers in the following cancer areas: breast, pancreatic, colorectal, ovarian, ppb data gathering, lympoid cell, endometrial, ras pten mutuations, cd2000 cancer, lymphoma, brain and melanoma. Grants of $40,000 were awarded to several community outreach programs for youths. This included a program that enabled 40 youths whose parent(s) have cancer to attend a camp specifically for them. Another grant went to program that provides grief support for youths who lost a parent to cancer. Another youth grant went to a program that enabled youths with cancer to attend a camp specific for kids with cancer. Grants over $45,000 went to other community outreach programs. One program provides meals to cancer patients and their families. The grant awarded to this program provided over 4,200 meals. Another grant provided 20-25 patients diagnosed and going through treatment a weekend get away. A third grant provided social emotional support for over 250 breast cancer patients.