When you give to the Jimmy Fund, your donations help bring cancer prevention, treatments, and hope to adults and children around the world. Every gift, event, and volunteer keeps us on the cutting edge of cancer care.
“The Jimmy Fund has enabled Dana-Farber to become one of the world’s leading centers of cancer research and treatment, saving countless lives.”
Laurie H. Glimcher, MD, Dana-Farber president emerita
Impact on Research
For more than 75 years, the Jimmy Fund has helped keep Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at the forefront of cancer research and treatment.
Annual clinical trials
makes Dana-Farber one of the largest cancer clinical trials programs in the country.
Of cancer drugs
approved by the FDA from 2018 to 2022 were built on a foundation of Dana-Farber research.
Nobel Prize
for discovering how the body adapts to changing oxygen levels, key to developing new drugs for cancer.
Lifesaving Research and Care
“If not for the Jimmy Fund, I wouldn’t have had a full, wonderful life.”
Childhood cancer survivor Teri Scheinzeit inspires hope through music and supports Dana-Farber's mission with her personal story and fundraising efforts.
Stories of Hope
Giving to the Jimmy Fund makes a powerful difference in the fight against cancer.
“Knowing PJ was a patient [at the Jimmy Fund Clinic] gave us hope. I wish no child would ever have to go through having cancer, but when we were faced with the unimaginable, Dana-Farber saved our son.”
Amy, mother of PJ, a patient in Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic
Magazines & Publications
Find inspiring content in these magazines and publications from Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund.