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The PMC generates 62% of the Jimmy Fund's annual revenue as of 2023 [42] and is the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute's single largest donor. [26] [43] From 1980 to 2023, the event has raised a total of $972 million. [11] This funding has been directed to cancer care and research, including helping fund the development of 41 cancer drugs. [44]
In 1947, Sidney Farber founded the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.The following year he launched the Jimmy Fund to raise money to support the hospital. [9] [10] The fund was named after a patient who was named "Jimmy" to protect his identity – his real name was Einar Gustafson and his identity was revealed in 1998.
Dana Farber Cancer Institute – $60,000; Police Athletic League of New York – $60,000; Intrepid Museum Foundation – $50,000; Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care – $25,000; Metropolitan Museum of Art – $15,000; The following grants were reported to the Foundation Center during the year 2007: [5] Police Athletic League of New York – $110,000
Dana–Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) is a comprehensive cancer treatment and research center in Boston, Massachusetts.Dana-Farber is the founding member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Harvard's Comprehensive Cancer Center designated by the National Cancer Institute, and one of the 15 clinical affiliates and research institutes of Harvard Medical School.
[6] [7] He also chaired the Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare and Harvard CancerCare boards. [8] [9] He founded the Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. [10] [11] He helped raise money for the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. [12] Connors was active in supporting education.
Associates with the Dana-Farber institute assumed that he had died due to low survival rates. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] [ 7 ] It wasn't until 1997, when his sister Phyllis Clauson sent a letter along with her annual Jimmy Fund donation stating that he was alive and living in Maine that Gustafson re-entered the national spotlight.
In January 2005, the recruitment of Dr. Ferrando from Harvard University and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute was made possible, in part, by prior commitments of the Wipe Out Leukemia Forever Foundation and a grateful patient family. The Leukemia/Lymphoma program currently has a highly developed and successful laboratory component and currently ...
Team Jack sold 30,000 T-shirts and collected $275,000 in donations, which they gave to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. The Hoffman family subsequently established the Team Jack Foundation, [11] which as of December 2020 has raised roughly $8 million for pediatric brain cancer research. [10]