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Alex's Lemonade Stand
Find one near you this weekend and help fight Pediatric Cancers
By: Eric Cohen
This weekend roughly 3,000 kids and groups around the Country will set up lemonade stands. Not to earn money for themselves, but to help other kids, now and in the future. They are part of the Alex's Lemonade Stand movement.
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation is a significant non-profit that raises millions of dollars for pediatric cancer research and treatments. But it started with just one kid, Alex Scott. Alex was diagnosed with cancer as a baby and battled the disease for 8 years. When she was just 4 years old, Alex asked her mom Liz, if she could sell lemonade to raise some money for the hospital where she was receiving treatment. With one press mention in the local paper, that first lemonade stand raised $2,000. The next year Alex raised $12,000, and in what was the last year of her life, she raised $1,000,000 with the help of kids and organizations across the Country.
One of those organizations, Toys R Us became the first sponsor to donate $1,000,000 in one year last year, and they are back again. From June 1 through July 31, customers can “Help Fight Childhood Cancer, One Cup at a Time” by visiting their nearest Toys“R”Us or Babies“R”Us store to make a donation to ALSF. And you can check out their Facebook page to see how fundraising is going. http://www.facebook.com/toysrus
And all the money raised and work put in by Liz and her team is paying off. Recently ALSF played a major role in funding a clinical trial that showed great success when 7 of 8 children who had a relapse of their cancer, saw it go into remission thanks to a brand new treatment.
So visit www.alexslemonade.com and find a lemonade stand near you and contribute however you can.
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation is a significant non-profit that raises millions of dollars for pediatric cancer research and treatments. But it started with just one kid, Alex Scott. Alex was diagnosed with cancer as a baby and battled the disease for 8 years. When she was just 4 years old, Alex asked her mom Liz, if she could sell lemonade to raise some money for the hospital where she was receiving treatment. With one press mention in the local paper, that first lemonade stand raised $2,000. The next year Alex raised $12,000, and in what was the last year of her life, she raised $1,000,000 with the help of kids and organizations across the Country.
One of those organizations, Toys R Us became the first sponsor to donate $1,000,000 in one year last year, and they are back again. From June 1 through July 31, customers can “Help Fight Childhood Cancer, One Cup at a Time” by visiting their nearest Toys“R”Us or Babies“R”Us store to make a donation to ALSF. And you can check out their Facebook page to see how fundraising is going. http://www.facebook.com/toysrus
And all the money raised and work put in by Liz and her team is paying off. Recently ALSF played a major role in funding a clinical trial that showed great success when 7 of 8 children who had a relapse of their cancer, saw it go into remission thanks to a brand new treatment.
So visit www.alexslemonade.com and find a lemonade stand near you and contribute however you can.
Comments
1) Kansas Case said:
I think this is just a wonderful cause! I am always willing to help kids and people in need. I saw what cancer can do to a person when I saw my aunt dieing from cervical cancer as a kid. I never forgot how bad I felt for her and how there was nothing my family could do, how she looked, how she felt and how tragic it was for my whole family. Even more so her kids who were so little at the time that they don't even remember her.
2) Karen Salerno said:
Thank you so much for bring this charity to the forefront of your newsletter... my son is a newly minted 5 year survivor of the same type of cancer that took Alex Scott's life. My son, now 8 1/2 years old, went to hell and back to beat this monster and we need to do all we can to eradticate it. He is a "Hero" child and we are an Ambassador Family for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. Wonderful cause and wonderful people!!! Together we can cure childhood cancer, One Cup at a Time!
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