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The Jimmy Fund’s baseball origins later evolved into a longstanding partnership with the Boston Red Sox after the Braves moved to Milwaukee in 1953. [15] [16] In 1980, the Pan-Mass Challenge, a charity bicycle race, was founded to benefit the Jimmy Fund. [17] In 1983, the Jimmy Fund began holding the Scooper Bowl, an ice cream festival, in ...
Einar Gustafson (August 18, 1935 – January 21, 2001) [1] gained fame as a 12-year-old cancer patient when he became nationally known as "Jimmy". The name started a fund-raising program in 1948 known as The Jimmy Fund for the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. The Jimmy Fund was adopted as the official charity of the Boston Red Sox in 1953. [2] [3]
The PMC generates 62% of the Jimmy Fund's annual revenue as of 2023 [43] and is the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute's single largest donor. [44] [45] From 1980 to 2023, the event has raised a total of $972 million. [46] This funding has been directed to cancer care and research, including helping fund the development of 41 cancer drugs. [47]
After his playing career, he served for more than 25 years as chairman of The Jimmy Fund, an event fundraising organization affiliated with the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. [1] He is the older brother of Rob Andrews, who played five seasons in MLB from 1975 through 1979. [2]
He was named chairman of The Jimmy Fund in 2016. [27] Lucchino was a non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivor, [28] [29] undergoing radiation treatment in 1986 after his diagnosis in September 1985. In October 1999, he had surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital to remove localized prostate cancer. [30]
Under Yawkey, the Jimmy Fund became the official charity of the team in 1953. [21] [22] In 1957, Yawkey was elected chairman of the Jimmy Fund's board of trustees and helped establish the tradition of the Red Sox playing exhibition games to raise money for the fund. [23] [2] Yawkey spent millions in his effort to build winning teams.
Frank H. McCourt Jr. (born August 14, 1953) is an American business executive and philanthropist. [1] [2] As of 2023, he is the executive chairman and former CEO of McCourt Global, [3] owner of major French football club Olympique de Marseille and founder and executive chairman of international non-profit Project Liberty. [3]
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