Our Vision
TeamConnor Mission
Most pediatric cancer treatments have NOT improved much in the past 20 years. How can progress be made with the dismal amount of attention and funding that pediatric cancer research receives? For our most vulnerable, blameless cancer victims, this is unacceptable. That is why the TeamConnor Cancer Foundation was formed
Since the birth of TeamConnor in 2008, the organization has raised almost a million dollars through our generous supporters, golf tournaments, auctions, fun runs, and various other fundraising events. We continue to grow and our awareness and donations have continued to increase every year. TeamConnor looks forward to a bright future as an organization and to providing the research funds needed to discover a cure for childhood cancers! The TeamConnor Cancer Foundation was founded as a non-profit 501(c) 3 in January 2008 by Connor’s mother, Joy Cruse, and shortly thereafter the first board of directors was established. In 2010 the Executive Director, Jennifer Koi Bolton, was hired.
TeamConnor’s purpose is to serve families, build awareness, and raise funds for research to help cure childhood cancer. Our organization continues to work tirelessly so that no child will have to suffer as Connor did.
Today, there are many children like Connor. Children and families that have exhausted their standard treatment protocol and were not cured of cancer. More dollars means more research and more treatments available for children with cancer, ultimately finding the cure. With your help, we can help to make the greatest impact possible on a child, saving their life! Please help us to find the cures to all childhood cancers!
All donations are tax-deductible.
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Today, 46 children will be diagnosed with cancer. Seven will lose their battle.
Did you know September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month!
Every day in America, approximately 46 children are diagnosed with cancer.
Childhood cancer does not discriminate, sparing no ethnic group, socio-economic class, or geographic region.
Rhabdomyosarcoma is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children, accounting for about 3% of childhood cancers.
On average, 1 in every 4 elementary schools has a child with cancer.
About one-third of childhood cancers are leukemias.
Childhood cancer survival rates in the United States have increased from less than 20% in the 1960s to almost 80% today.
Cancer kills more children each year than Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, Diabetes, and Pediatric AIDS combined.
Childhood cancer is not one disease entity, but rather a spectrum of different malignancies. Cancers found in children are biologically different from those seen in adults.
1 in 300 children will develop cancer before age 20.
Neuroblastoma is the most common extra cranial solid tumor cancer in children.
Today, up to 75% of the children with cancer can be cured, yet, some forms of childhood cancers have proven so resistant to treatment that, in spite of research, a cure is illusive.
