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The reality of childhood cancer is that 300,000 children worldwide are diagnosed with cancer each year, and in the United States more children die because of childhood cancer than any other diseases combined. The St. Baldrick\u2019s Foundation <\/a>exists to change these realities.<\/p>\n \u00a0Current countries that provides grants to the St.Baldrick\u2019s Foundation.<\/i><\/p>\n The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is the largest private, non-government, funder for childhood cancer research grants in the country. Their overall mission is to find cures for childhood cancer and to give survivors long and healthy lives.<\/p>\n By partnering with the countries leading pediatric oncologists<\/a>, the organizations seeks to provide hospitals with the funds to open high impact clinical trials for rare disease types, fund researcher so that the research that currently exists can be shared will all institutions, train the next generation of researchers to ensure that more research will be done, and to fund supportive care research in hopes of improving the quality of life for patients and survivors.<\/p>\n As a fully volunteer powered organization, from its founders to those involved in spreading the word across the world, The St. Baldrick\u2019s Foundation relies on involvement and donations from the public to continue their fight against childhood cancer.<\/p>\n \u00a0 Percentages and types of cancer incidence rates for children.<\/i><\/p>\n St. Baldrick\u2019s head-shaving events are where it all began, and today nearly half a million people have shaved their heads making it not only the most popular fundraiser that St. Baldrick\u2019s sponsors, but also the most profitable. The St.\u00a0Baldrick\u2019s Foundation\u2019s head-shaving events began as a challenge between businessmen, but it has grown quickly. The movement <\/a>began with one head-shaving event in 2000 has grown to over 1,200 events in 2016, and this number continues to grow. Raising critical funds for childhood cancer research, the events take place in pubs, restaurants, schools, churches, parks, malls, military bases, firehouses and just about any other place you could\u00a0imagine. Even in Peoria, Illinois at Bradley University. The members of the Pi Kappa Alpha<\/a> fraternity at Bradley University<\/a> have taken steps to join this life saving movement in hopes of saving lives and raise money so that research can continue.\u00a0 Awareness is a key goal for both the St.Baldrick\u2019s Foundation and Pi Kappa Alpha.<\/i><\/p>\n 2017 marks the 10th year in a row that the members of Pi Kappa Alpha have partnered with the St. Baldrick\u2019s Foundation. This year, dozens of students came and showed their support for St. Baldrick\u2019s and childhood cancer by shaving their own heads. Nick Todd who is currently the philanthropy chair for Pi Kappa Alpha is no stranger to the St. Baldrick\u2019s event.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s something our fraternity does every year, but obviously we are helping a really good cause, childhood cancer, and it bonds us together not only as a brotherhood, but as a Bradley community\u2026 \u201d said Todd.<\/p>\n \u201cShavees\u201d as they are affectionately called can sign up on the St. Baldrick\u2019s Foundation website, from there they collect money from family and friends much like a walk-a-thon, and finally they show up at a volunteer-organized event in their community to take have their head shaved in front over supporters and other \u201cShavees.\u201d<\/p>\n The event which brought together Mayor Jim Ardis, who kicked off the event with a short remark, and several other members of the Peoria community raises on average about 20,000 dollars a year for the St. Baldrick\u2019s Foundation. While an event like this may seem simple, it takes months for everything to come together.<\/p>\n \u201cPretty much since the beginning of the semester the semester, that\u2019s how long I\u2019ve been in contact with St. Baldrick\u2019s and they\u2019ve been helping me the whole way, and they made it pretty easy,\u201d\u00a0 said St. Baldrick\u2019s chair and Pi Kappa Phi member Daniel Munson.<\/p>\n For many people, the various fundraising events that the St. Baldrick\u2019s Foundation sponsors hit close to home. David Gleson says this is why he is glad that his fraternity is a part of such an amazing cause.<\/p>\n \u201cAside from the free hair cut, it\u2019s a great way to give back, it\u2019s something we can actually do. It\u2019s our primary philanthropy we do every year, so every year everyone spends months on end raising money\u2026\u201d said Gleson, who also stated that, \u201cOver the last three years I\u2019ve been able to raise 600 dollars a year for the cause,\u201d said Gleson.<\/p>\n The impact of events such as this is undoubtedly life changing and according to the St. Baldrick\u2019s Foundation one donation creates a ripple effect. One donation or St. Baldrick\u2019s sponsored event affects the research and efforts of more than 370 institutions on all 7 continents which means that since it began the St. Baldrick\u2019s Foundation has raised more than $203 million dollars, provided at least 1,120 grants to organizations in at least 27 countries. The fight is not over, but because of the work of St. Baldrick\u2019s and organizations like Pi Kappa Alpha there are many children who\u2019s lives will continue to be benefited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Sabrina Salvacion and Gracie Cobb The reality of childhood cancer is that 300,000 children worldwide are diagnosed with cancer each year, and in the United States more children die because of childhood cancer than any other diseases combined. The St. Baldrick\u2019s Foundation exists to change these realities. \u00a0Current countries that provides grants to the St.Baldrick\u2019s Foundation. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is the largest private, non-government, funder for childhood cancer research grants in the country. Their overall mission is to find cures for childhood cancer and to give survivors long and healthy lives. By partnering with the countries leading pediatric oncologists, the organizations seeks to provide hospitals with the funds to open high impact clinical trials for rare disease types, fund researcher so that the research that currently exists can be shared will all institutions, train the next generation of researchers to ensure that more research will be done, and to fund supportive care research in hopes of improving the quality of life for patients and survivors. As a fully volunteer powered organization, from its founders to those involved in spreading the word across the world, The St. Baldrick\u2019s Foundation relies on involvement and donations from the public to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/files\/2017\/05\/grant-countries-300x148.png\")
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