| DIPG is a rare brain tumor mainly found in young children with a grim survival rate. DIPG children and families are facing extreme obstacles to treatment during this pandemic. Please help us give them support. You can register here or you can please sponsor me by donating $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 or any other amount and help me raise funds for DIPG, a rare children’s brain cancer. Below is the link where you can find my name and sponsor my walk/run.
Please share this with your family, friends and co-workers and ask them to donate and provide hope to the 200 children diagnosed with DIPG each year! |
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Why I’m Raising Money: DIPG is a rare, inoperable brain stem tumor that predominantly affects children between the ages of 2 and 10. Only 200 cases are discovered in the United States each year and because there is no cure, it’s young victims only have an average of 3-18 months to live, after they’ve been diagnosed. By creating awareness and funding ground-breaking research and trials, we may one day find a cure for this disease.
Who is the Cristian Rivera Foundation? The Cristian Rivera Foundation is a 501 (c3) non-profit organization with the mission of increasing public awareness of DIPG and raising funds that will provide financial support to families and medical facilities that conduct innovative research and clinical trials. The foundation funds and has donated approximately 1.3 million dollars ($1,300,000.00) the work of Dr. Mark Souweidane, Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery of Weill Cornell Medical Center – Memorial Sloane (Kettering) Cancer Center and Dr. Oren Becher of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital and the Lurie Cancer Center at Northwestern. One of the children on Dr. Souweidane’s clinical trial, Lisha Ayala, has seen no growth in her tumor and has lived 6 years with DIPG. As a result of our hard work, The Cristian Rivera Foundation was awarded a Platinum Seal on GuideStar.org for 3 years. GuideStar.org is the non-profit industry leader in analysis and public information and issues their rating based on transparency and positive activity conducted in the non-profit community. In addition, the Cristian Rivera Foundation received the Top-Rated Great Nonprofits Award from Great Nonprofits 3 years in a row. As you can see, the Cristian Rivera Foundation is making a difference in the world of DIPG and it’s up to us to help them continue progressing. View the 2 short videos and learn more about our foundation.
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