SOLVING KIDS CANCER INC
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Mission Statement
Solving Kids’ Cancer finds, funds, and manages novel, high-impact clinical research to improve survival of the deadliest childhood cancers.
About This Cause
Solving Kids' Cancer is committed to significantly improving survivorship of the deadliest childhood cancers. Contributions are used to find, fund, and manage clinical trials and scientific programs to rapidly develop more effective and less toxic treatments. The Board of Directors collectively offset operating expenses to ensure that donor funds are making a direct impact on kids. Solving Kids' Cancer is a 501(c)(3) public charity. SKC was founded in 2007 by two fathers who lost children to pediatric cancer. Their experiences led them to establish an organization to fill the void they had identified: there was no single group, institution, or research entity exclusively and effectively devoted to solving the deadliest forms of pediatric cancer. Solving Kids’ Cancer was created not as a conventional charity but as a nonprofit enterprise dedicated to fostering a new collaborative approach to pediatric cancer research that makes therapeutic benefit and increasing survivorship the primary funding criteria. SKC serves as a bridge between the key stakeholders including scientists, translational researchers, clinicians, and the life sciences industry. SKC’s Therapeutic Development Initiative, established in 2007, brings together the knowledge and experience of a diverse group of scientists who represent multiple disciplines in cancer including pediatric oncologists, cancer researchers, experts in immunology, systems biology, and adult oncology. Currently, SKC’s therapeutic development and funding efforts are primarily focused on the three most deadly childhood cancer types—neuroblastoma, sarcomas, and brain/central nervous system cancers. SKC believes the deadliest childhood cancers will not be stopped by one agent or a single targeted approach. Since there are multiple and varying processes that contribute to cancer, it follows that multiple paths will be required to successfully stop it. SKC’s research staff and scientific advisory board are deeply involved in all stages of the research projects they fund, including conception, protocol design, budget, goals, and milestones. SKC sponsors pilot, proof-of-principle, and Phase I clinical trials that drive a gained understanding of both safety and efficacy of promising therapeutic agents. SKC aims to incentivize and support scientific investigators who might not otherwise have the opportunity to conduct novel research that could help improve survivorship. Solving Kids’ Cancer is independent of any single researcher, institution, or consortium allowing us to objectively support the most promising research projects. SKC collaborates with like-minded charities creating the ideal environment for effective, high-impact, charitable investment towards improving survival. Partner organizations choose from a list of near-term projects, which have been carefully reviewed and approved by our Therapeutic Development Initiative. SKC has partnered with 21 like-minded nonprofits around the world, collaborating on clinical projects which can be found in more than 250 pediatric cancer institutions across 28 countries.