St. Baldrick's Foundation

St. Baldrick's Foundation began in 2000 as a challenge between friends and has since grown into the world's largest volunteer-powered, donor centered fundraising program for childhood cancer research. The Foundation now funds more in childhood cancer research grants than any organization except the U.S. government. Its signature head-shaving events are coordinated worldwide, where volunteers get bald to stand in solidarity with kids with cancer and raise money to support lifesaving research. Since its start, over 580,000 shavees, including more than 82,000 women, have shaved their heads at more than 15,000 head-shaving events in 29 countries and 50 U.S. states. St. Baldrick's has committed more than $310 million since 2005 to fund the best research with the potential to impact every child diagnosed with cancer at over 379 institutions in the U.S. and beyond. (Less)