$11,300 raised by 19 donors
56% complete
$20,000 Goal
🎗Early giving begins September 1st🎗
Our mission is urgent, because ...
🎗Cancer is the deadliest disease of our Nation's children.
🎗Cancer in children is on the rise.
🎗Overall rate of childhood cancer has increased 27% since 1975.
🎗Approximately, 1 in 285 children in the US will be diagnosed with cancer before turning 20.
🎗Brain cancer accounts for 26% of all childhood cancers.
🎗Brain cancers are responsible for 30% of childhood cancer mortalities.
🎗There's never been a therapy developed specifically for childhood brain cancer.
* American Cancer Society Statistics
OUR COLLABORATIVE MISSION of helping kids fight cancer is shaped by three distinct pillars.
✅ cureMEdullo research initiative identifies and invests in low toxic medulloblastoma (brain cancer) research.
✅ HEARTS of GOLD hootenanny & Under Armour Backpack programs address the mental health challenges of kids in the battle.
✅ Advocate for policy changes benefiting the overall state of childhood cancer.
FOREMOST is RESEARCH:
Support for low toxic clinical research for better treatments leading to a cure. Our newest supporter, Lyda Hill Philanthropies fervently believes, "Science is the Answer." We are likeminded in her belief and know that research is the only way to find solutions to the complexities of childhood brain cancer. Current medulloblastoma treatment has not improved in 30+ years and causes significant side-effects that devastate the young bodies and brains of patients leaving severe health complications for a lifetime.
ADDRESS THE MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES OF YOUNG PATIENTS:
Support for the mental health challenges of young cancer patients in Texas through our programs at Children's Health in Dallas, Medical City Dallas, Dell Children’s, Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, Texas Children’s Houston, and MD Anderson Houston.
ADVOCACY/ACTION:
We work closely with Texas' $6B Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) and established a Texas wide childhood cancer research initiative, *Researchers RoundUp* to encourage collaboration between CPRIT supported childhood cancer research projects at institutions all across the Lone Star State.
Together with our legislative leaders in Washington, DC and the childhood cancer community, we have successfully built an unstoppable-collaborative GLOBAL movement, resulting in the passage of six bills benefitting the overall state of childhood cancer.
Because cancer in children spares no ethnic group, socio-economic class or geographic region, the Carson Leslie Foundation supports all ethnic groups, all socio-economic classes and all geographic regions.
Organization name
Carson Leslie Foundation
Causes
Health Care
Operating Budget
$250,000 - $499,999
Counties Served
Wise, Tarrant, Somervell, Rockwall, Parker, Palo Pinto, Navarro, Montague, Kaufman, Johnson, Hunt, Hood, Grayson, Fannin, Erath, Ellis, Denton, Dallas, Cooke, Collin
Equity Statement
Equity Statement
Address
3000 Pegasus Park Dr. WaterCooler #722