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...
Go Gray in May for Brain Cancer Awareness Month It’s April and spring is evident everywhere. The world is exploding with color… red robins, purple hyacinths, yellow daffodils, green grass. It’s all so hopeful… the budding trees evidence of new life and the knowledge...
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...
Founding Family Spotlight: The Roque Family At Gift form a Child (GFAC) we empower families to make groundbreaking contributions to research to change the prognosis for children with brain cancer. In 2018 we gathered families from around the country to hear about...
10 Years Later…a sad and beautiful world My wise husband often reminds me, “It’s a sad and beautiful world.” This story is like that. It’s beautiful and sad. You see, 10 years ago today, our son Michael donated his brain and spine to research when he died from...
SNO 2022 – GFAC Presents First Scientific Posters Gift from a Child was well represented in Tampa, Florida at the 2022 annual meeting for the Society for Neuro-oncology (SNO). This annual meeting is the largest national gathering of neuro-oncology professionals....
