All posts tagged: Best Practices

CAC2 Webinar–Finding Families to Serve

October 25, 2021
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  In our October CAC2 All-Member webinar.  Amy Godkin (ASK Foundation) helped us host a panel program that included Kim Buff (Momcology), Heather Held (Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation), and Robyn Dillon (LCSW, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Children's Hospital of Richmond) who spoke on: Finding Families to Serve The panelists shared information on their success in the area of finding families to serve and how you can work with treatment centers to become a trusted partner. Finding Families to Serve Video Finding Families to Serve Handout Finding-Families-To-Serve-Handout Read more

CC Community News Digest (week of September 28-October 4)

October 4, 2020
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Assorted news from the last week: Twenty percent of children treated with drugs called anthracyclines go on to suffer heart failure later in life.  Dr. Greg Aune explores why. Research to develop a new treatment and bring a new drug to market is extremely expensive, and conventional methods for obtaining funding aren’t adequate. New funding models can help disease-focused nonprofit research foundations play a central role in raising capital and mobilizing an ecosystem focused on controlling and curing a disease. The U.S. Senate unanimously passed S.Res.742 – A Senate Resolution designating September as National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.  Senators Manchin […]

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CAC2 Member Guide to Navigating Covid19

April 1, 2020
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If you want to know what the $2.2 trillion CARES Act economic relief package means for nonprofits, donors, and individuals, have asked yourself "what can I do?" want to brush up your leadership skills or explore ideas to help with fundraising in a crisis, or just need accurate and reliable information, then the CAC2 Member Guide to Navigating the Covid-19 crisis may help.  Members have worked together to build this document to help organizational and individual members during this unprecedented crisis.     If we have overlooked an essential resource, let us know here:  Suggest a Resource for the Guide.   You [...] Read more

How Patient Driven Philanthropy is Driving Collaboration and Progress

February 14, 2018
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In February’s All-Member webinar, CAC2 members Joanne Salcido (Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation) hosted Kristin Schneeman, Director of Programs at FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute. Philanthropy can play an critical role as a catalyst for change in the medical research and development ecosystem. Over the last decade, many patient-driven foundations – big and small, old and new – have been taking a more strategic and entrepreneurial approach to their role as research funders and are driving collaboration and progress for the patients they represent. In this webinar, Schneeman,presented about some of the new funding models and collaborative activities in which foundations [...] Read more

An Individualized Approach Requires Collaborative Efforts

November 27, 2016
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By Vickie Buenger, President of Coalition Against Childhood Cancer The Coalition Against Childhood Cancer (CAC2) held its first pediatric cancer research conference entitled From Bench to Bedside and Beyond to connect childhood cancer advocates, research funders, clinicians, and scientists from academia and industry. A number of common themes emerged from the various investigators’ presentations. Clearly, most childhood cancers are different than adult cancers, and the relatively small numbers of patients present problems for researchers, sponsors, and others responsible for designing clinical trials. We must remember that these small clusters of patients represent our children. Presenters also agreed that despite progress [...] Read more

Funding Research: Discussion on Charity Practices

February 10, 2016
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The CAC2 Research Interest Group February meeting was an interactive webinar to encourage dialogue between our members about aspects of charities funding research.  CAC2 Member Jay Scott from Alex's Lemonade Sand Foundation led an open conversation about our experiences, ideas, and practices. Jay and members on the call discussed the elements of funding research and shared experience, ideas, and best practices: setting priorities soliciting proposals selecting scientific review panels orchestrating reviews selection of projects making awards reporting requirements evaluating research funded collaboration among charities Read more

Funding Research: Discussion on Charity Practices

February 10, 2016
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The CAC2 Research Interest Group February meeting was an interactive webinar to encourage dialogue between our members about aspects of charities funding research.  CAC2 Member Jay Scott from Alex’s Lemonade Sand Foundation led an open conversation about our experiences, ideas, and practices. Jay and members on the call discussed the elements of funding research and shared experience, ideas, and best practices: setting priorities soliciting proposals selecting scientific review panels orchestrating reviews selection of projects making awards reporting requirements evaluating research funded collaboration among charities  

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Scientific Meetings: Tapping the Resource

January 20, 2016
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The CAC2 Research Interest Group February meeting was a webinar to help all of our members get the most out of this fall's research conference and any other research conferences they may have the opportunity to attend.  Attending scientific meetings is a fantastic opportunity for advocates and funders of pediatric cancer research.  CAC2 member Donna Ludwinski (Solving Kids Cancer), presented our January webinar as a primer to help you navigate these types of opportunities: Topics covered included getting the most out of​ scientific meetings list of major meetings of interest planning objectives networking reporting sponsorship Additionally, CAC2 member Phil Renna (Christina Renna Foundation, Inc.) updated everyone on our CAC2 Research Conference planned for this [...] Read more
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