Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation

Join thousands of families across the country fundraising for childhood cancer research this June during Lemonade Days!🍋 Together, we’re going to serve ONE MILLION cups of lemonade, raise awareness and raise money to change the lives of kids with cancer. It takes just a few minutes to start: 🍋Register your stand, chose a date, and set your fundraising goal 🍋Spread the word and share your donation page! Take your stand against childhood cancer now> LemonadeDays.org

One month later, we're still feeling the love! 💛🍋 L.A. Loves Alex’s Lemonade brought together an incredible community of chefs, supporters, and friends, all united by a shared mission to help end childhood cancer. We're looking back on a special day filled with amazing food, generosity, and the kind of community that keeps Alex’s legacy alive. Thank you for showing up for kids with cancer. Each year, we leave feeling inspired by the number of supporters who come to UCLA hungry to change lives. 🎗️❤️

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — and the perfect time to make every gift count! 💝 We have an inspiring collection of partner products from brands that give back to ALSF. From cozy socks to sparkling jewelry to festive candles, you’ll find something special for everyone on your list. With every purchase, your support will help change the lives of children with cancer through funding impactful research, raising awareness, supporting families and empowering everyone to help cure childhood cancer> alexslemonade.org/get-your-c…

🎗️This Giving Tuesday, your gift can go TWICE as far for kids with cancer! We're so grateful for the community of supporters who help to make safer treatments available, help scientists answer questions that have been unanswered for generations, and ensure kids can get to treatment. Thanks to ALDI, all online donations made to Giving Tuesday fundraisers for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation will be matched, up to $100,000 💛 It's one more reason to add Giving Tuesday to your holiday calendar. Here's how you can get involved and help make an even bigger difference for kids with cancer: alexslemonade.org/blog/your-…

Save the date and SHARE: Giving Tuesday is December 1! 🎗️ We are continuously inspired by the support from the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) community. When life hands kids unexpected lemons, YOU step in to help make lemonade. Giving Tuesday is a global charity movement and one of the most important times of year to give to ALSF. By donating to ALSF on this day, you will help kids who are fighting cancer right now. With your support, more of our childhood cancer heroes will get the treatment and care they need. 💛 Even sweeter: @AldiUSA will generously match all online donations made to #GivingTuesday fundraisers for ALSF (up to $100,000).

This week's featured childhood cancer hero is Adam Handwerk! Adam is a funny and caring animal lover. When he was diagnosed with a metastatic nongerminomatous germ cell tumor in both his brain and spinal region, his world flipped upside down. Suddenly, he was worrying about surgery and chemotherapy instead of his first day of high school. Today, he is undergoing intensive treatment and fighting hard! “What amazes me most is how appreciative he remains through all of this,” said Adam's mom. “He notices every person who helps him, every gift, every kind gesture, and never takes any of it for granted. Even while going through the hardest experience of his life, he is genuinely grateful for the people surrounding and supporting him. He doesn't pretend that he isn't scared or that this isn't hard, but he keeps going anyway. His courage, gratitude, humor, and determination make me incredibly proud to be his mom, and he will forever be my hero.” Read Adam's story>alexslemonade.org/hero/adam-… #childhoodcancerawareness

ONE LESS THING ON YOUR HOLIDAY TO-DO LIST! Need to send holiday cards? Check it off your list — and make it meaningful. This holiday season, make a tribute donation in honor or memory of someone special, and Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation will send a personalized holiday card to your recipient on your behalf. You can even identify several recipients. 💌 You make the donation. 🎁 We send the card(s). 🍋 Together, we help kids with cancer. It’s the perfect way to spread holiday cheer, acknowledge someone special, and give hope to children and families facing childhood cancer — all while checking holiday cards off your list. Contact [email protected] to send your holiday card(s) today.

Sometimes, the most powerful reminders of why we do this work come from the people we meet along the way. ❤️ At this year's L.A. Loves Alex’s Lemonade, Liz Scott met a young boy who proudly shared that he was cancer-free after facing neuroblastoma, the same type of cancer Alex had. His story was a great reminder of the children and families at the heart of this community and the difference we can make when we come together. To everyone who supported L.A. Loves Alex’s Lemonade, thank you for being part of this incredible community, honoring Alex’s legacy, and helping bring hope to families facing childhood cancer. We couldn't make this much progress in childhood cancer research without you! 🍋

During this month of giving, we want to thank everyone who has supported Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. Because of you, kids with cancer are getting closer to their cures every day. Whether you have donated, held a lemonade stand, rallied a Million Mile team, or attended a fundraising event, you have been making a difference. Thank you for helping kids with cancer, one cup at a time.🍋

🍋✨ Get ready for a night of celebration, inspiration and community! ✨🍋 The countdown to our yearly “yellow-tie” gala supporting kids with cancer is on, and you're invited> LemonBall.org Dancing to a live band, catered dinner and drinks, dressing up with friends and family, plus photo ops and enviable auction items – your ticket purchase gets you access to all of this and more! But most importantly, it funds research that can help kids that are fighting cancer. Whether you're discovering our mission for the first time or have been part of the fight for years, we'd love to celebrate with you.

Great Chefs Table: Seattle is returning for an extraordinary dining experience to the Pacific Northwest this spring! 🌆🍽️ On Thursday, March 18, guests will gather at the beautiful Lark Seattle, home to James Beard Award–winning chef John Sundstrom, for an extraordinary evening. Enjoy a multi-course meal prepared by a stellar line-up of chefs, each crafting a unique dish to create a truly special culinary experience, all in support of Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) and its mission to end childhood cancer. 🎗️ Get your tickets now>alexslemonade.org/campaign/g…

What do you know about childhood cancer? 🎗️ Did you know that childhood cancer refers to not one disease but dozens? Did you know that childhood cancer is not the same as adult cancer? The term childhood cancer refers to a large set of diseases that cause abnormal cell growth in the body. There are childhood cancer types that affect virtually all areas of the body. Leukemia, brain tumors, and lymphoma are the most common types, affecting the blood and the central nervous system. There are more than 50 different types of sarcomas, which arise in bones and soft tissues of the body. And there are other solid cell tumors like neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma, hepatoblastoma, and Wilms tumors that show up in the kidneys, eyes, liver, and other parts of the body. For each of these different cancer types, prognosis and treatment is different. But one thing is the same: all kids want cures. Here are some common myths — and the facts — about childhood cancer>alexslemonade.org/blog/six-c… Photo by Ryan Kurtz, for Flashes of Hope

🍋 Yesterday, our incredible Team Lemon runners ran 26.2 miles through all five NYC boroughs, and squeezed out something even sweeter: hope for kids with cancer! 💛 Thank you to everyone who donned a bib and crossed the finish line at the #NYCMarathon yesterday while raising funds for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. You’re the zest of the best! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ Want to join the team? Learn more at teamlemon.org

This week's featured childhood cancer hero is Katana! Katana was a creative spirit, sharing stories and developing movies in her head with her action figures. Her imagination ran wild and her heart was big. While she passed away at just 3 from leukemia, her parents continue to raise awareness in her honor. Read her story> alexslemonade.org/hero/katan…

We love these sweet photos from Big Blue Marble Academy (BBMA)! 🍋✏️ This summer, every BBMA location hosted a lemonade stand in support of Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, raising an incredible $52,000! 💛 We’re so grateful to the BBMA students, families, teachers and staff who poured their hearts into helping kids with cancer. Your school can help make a difference too! Learn how to get involved at alexslemonade.org/get-involv….

Here's to more treats and better treatments 🎃 These childhood cancer heroes brought the Halloween spirit to their Flashes of Hope photo shoots! Send to a friend who would love these costumes! Happy Halloween from Flashes of Hope 🧡 📸Photographer credits: Don Bensman CIA students Dede Holman Christine Plamnn

If you’re participating in your state’s employee charitable giving campaign, consider choosing Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation as your charity of choice. Your workplace giving donation helps families travel for critical treatment and connect them with resources and support. Choose ALSF. Give hope. Help cure childhood cancer 🎗️

We had an excellent Young Investigators Research Summit this week! 💛 Each year, ALSF partners with @NM_Financial to bring together Young Investigators, ‘A’ Awardees and Center of Excellence Scholars to meet with other grantees funded by ALSF. Attendees learn about the latest childhood cancer research, connect with leaders in the field, explore ideas for collaboration and learn from expert speakers through poster sessions and panel discussions. Thank you @northwesternmutual for hosting the summit at your headquarters in Milwaukee this year!

WORLD. SERIES. CHAMPIONS 🏆 What a season for The Brewers! They didn't just bring a title home to Milwaukee—together with @nm_financial, they have raised more than $1.2 Million to support our mission at Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. Congrats and thank you @brewers for helping knock childhood cancer out of the ballpark! 💛🍋

We’re excited to announce that Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation has officially surpassed $400M raised in the fight against childhood cancer! 🎉🎉🎉 It all traces back to our founder, Alex Scott, whose lemonade stand inspired a nationwide grassroots movement that’s made this progress possible since her first stand in 2000: 🍋 Funded more than 1,500 research projects across North America and Europe 🍋 In 1997, when Alex was diagnosed with cancer, survival rates for childhood cancer were just 77%. Today, they’re 85% in the U.S. 🍋 Since our first grant, FDA-approved childhood cancer treatments have increased from 18 to more than 60 today. Thank you to every corporate partner, fundraiser, donor, event attendee and anyone who's helped deliver this incredible progress. We won’t stop until a future free of childhood cancer becomes a reality.

What if there's a better way to detect childhood cancer? A new way to outsmart a tumor? A treatment approach scientists haven't explored before? The 12 new ALSF Innovation Grantees will explore these big questions, challenge conventional thinking, and pursue discoveries that could lead to the next big breakthroughs for children with cancer. Several funded researchers are building on previous ALSF grants, illustrating how research funding can build momentum from one scientific question to the next. Nathan Singh, PhD, received a POST grant as a student—that grant launched his career studying CAR-T immunotherapy. He is now turning his focus to bettered CAR-T immunotherapy for solid tumors. Robbie Majzner, MD, previously received an ‘A’ Grant, which led to findings that are critical for powering his new World Gold Council Innovation Grant studying a combination antibody-immunotherapy for neuroblastoma. Meet the newest group of Innovation Grantees and explore their breakthrough projects:alexslemonade.org/blog/just-… #childhoodcancerawareness