Partner Spotlight: McKenna Claire Foundation After McKenna Claire Wetzel passed from diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), her family made the courageous decision to donate her brain and spinal cord to research. McKenna’s mom Kristine said donating McKenna’s tumor...
Deep Family Ties at Prairie Elementary School Fundraiser In a beautiful twist of fate, this month Michael Gustafson’s cousin, Michael, helped fundraise for the Swifty Foundation as a second grader at Prairie Elementary School in Naperville, Illinois. The Swifty...
Groundbreaking Advancements at the Children’s Brain Tumor Network Gift from a Child (GFAC) and the Children’s Brain Tumor Network (CBTN) work together to help create a world where no family is faced with the devastating reality of an incurable brain tumor. CBTN...
International Childhood Cancer Day Caring for a child with cancer is mentally, physically and spiritually draining on the caregivers. To honor International Childhood Cancer Day (ICCD) on February 15th the World Health Organization Global Initiative for Childhood...
The Impact of Gift From a Child through Children’s National Hospital GFAC Regional Center of Excellence, Children’s National Hospital in Washington D.C. directly shared donated post-mortem tissue with twelve institutions in 2022 . The Children’s National GFAC...
A Few Stories About Families Who Made a Difference Families who endure losing a child to brain cancer is a club no one wants to be in. It’s a club where members navigate hourly around the emptiness left by the child who passed too soon, while knowing that less than 8%...
