Awareness Walks & Runs …for DIPG Awareness! Press Release (click link) –Why is it important? Pediatric Cancer research as a whole is underfunded–only 4% of the NCI’s annual budget for cancer research goes to pediatric cancers. DIPG is an example of a pediatric cancer that has been marginalized as rare, yet is…
CENTER STAGE OPERA and Jack’s Angels Foundation Present: OUR REHEARSAL LOCATION HAS CHANGED– Acton Mainstage, MPR Acton-Agua Dulce Unified School District, 32248 Crown Valley Rd, Acton, CA 93510 A wonderful idea is coming to fruition! We are collaborating with Center Stage Opera to develop, beginning Fall 2014, the beginnings of a versatile children’s choir…
Dear Friends, (for news posts before Oct. 5 2014, click here.) During a very busy 2 months where I’d like to keep everything well updated on this site, we’ve had to change equipment (new computer system), and then, 3 weeks later, completely change our website due to hacking. For…
“JACK GOES TO WASHINGTON D.C.” –Sept. 25, 2014, Janet Demeter, written for the local Women’s Club in Agua Dulce, CA, summarizing the trip to Washington, D.C. for DIPG and Childhood Cancer Awareness. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month, as President Obama first declared it for our affected children in 2010. Still,…
Breaking News Santa Clarita 6/5/2014 1:17pm–Today, through the efforts of California State Assemblyman Scott Wilk, a resolution has passed to declare a DIPG Awareness Week in the State of California. Respectfully, the statistics exposed regarding DIPG incidence are perhaps the most conservative, and notably DIPG comprises roughly 10-12% incidence…
Posted on May 29, 2014 May 28, 2014, Agua Dulce, CA—A tradition in the greater Santa Clarita Valley is developing in May, brain tumor awareness month. Jack’s Angels Foundation, of Agua Dulce, CA, is dedicated to awareness, support, and research for DIPG, a pediatric brainstem tumor responsible for 80% of…
