Monday, June 19, 2006

onPhilanthropy: Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation Donates $3 Million to Cancer Research

onPhilanthropy: Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation Donates $3 Million to Cancer Research: "Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Donates $3 Million to Cancer Research
By: Alexandra Lobanov, 06/14/06


Philanthropy took on a new and surprisingly youthful face when four-year-old cancer patient Alex Scott paved the way for unparalleled children’s cancer funding with the time-honored tradition of holding a lemonade stand.

With the help of her older brother Patrick, in 2000, Alexandra “Alex” held the first annual ‘Alex’s Lemonade Stand’ in the front yard of her Pennsylvania home. Alex hoped to raise money to help her doctors find a cure for her and the many other children suffering from life-threatening and metastasized childhood cancers. "

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