The Sandy Springs-based Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research awarded a $350,000 grant to Winship Cancer Institute of Emory, which made it the largest single-year donation the nonprofit organization has made to Emory’s pediatric cancer research program.
The foundation has provided more than $35 million in research grants for childhood cancer studies worldwide since its founding in 2005. The release said more than $2 million of those donations have supported Emory and Winship researchers since 2006.
“Supporting Emory’s talented researchers aligns perfectly with Rally’s mission to fund innovative research and develop better treatments with fewer side effects,” Dean Crowe, Rally Foundation founder and CEO, said in a news release. “Through collaborations like this, we’re making significant strides toward more
effective therapies and, ultimately, cures for childhood cancer.”
A check presentation made late last month celebrated the ongoing partnership between Rally Foundation and Winship to help improve treatments and outcomes for children fighting cancer, the news release said.
The Rally Foundation said its annual Benefit Bash, which takes place
Friday, Nov. 15 at the Georgia Aquarium, is sold out. Delta Air Lines’s President
International Alain Bellemare and Altium’s President and CEO Sean Fallmann
are co-chairs. Delta Aire Line’s CEO Ed Bastian and S.V.P. & Chief Health
Officer Dr. Henry Ting are chairs emeritus along with Jeff Arnold, Executive
Chairman of Sharecare, Inc.
Bastian has been a supporter of the foundation for years, including running the New York City Marathon and raising funds for Rally Kid Grace, who fought against osteosarcoma, the same cancer his younger brother battled as a child.
