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Mission
The mission of the I’m Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation is to empower young adults affected by cancer by (1) reducing late detection, (2) ending isolation, (3) improving quality of life and (4) providing meaningful survivorship.
Key Facts
Geographic areas served:
Worldwide
Target demographics:
Young adults, 18-39 and anyone who cares about supporting cancer patients in their late teens, 20s and 30s.
Results to date:
1M unique web hits in 2008
40 national and 60 international chapters.
30,000+ social media friends
500+ cancer center affiliate network
The Stupid Cancer Show: 16,000 listners+
2nd Annual OMG Cancer Summit success
Direct beneficiaries per year: 15,000+
Indirect beneficiaries per year: 250,000+
Obstacles:
Fundraising and business development in this economy has been very challenging.
What your donation will allow us to do:
100% of all net proceeds from all revenue directly fulfill the i[2]y mission. What does that mean? Your support enables us to: (1) print and ship our literature internationally, (2) manufacture, distribute and donate our CD/toolkits worldwide, (3) attend/exhibit at conferences and symposia to get the word out about stupid cancer, (4) develop and execute our own young adult cancer conferences, (5) pay for booths and visibility at community cancer relays/races, (6) promote i[2]y through various PR channels (viral, grassroots and mainstream), (7) maintain/upgrade the website with relevent targeted content and social media technology, (8) produce The Stupid Cancer Show, (9) organize our own social events, educational conferences, leadership retreats, fundraisers and benefit concerts, (10) empower our local and regional community chapters with the resources they need to grow our constituency and (11) cover related operational expenses (trademarks, legal, rent, travel, toner, pushpins) so the lights, heat, printers and computers go on when we flick the switch.
Your donation of 10 enables us to:
Supplies one more cancer center with our much needed support literature.
Your donation of 25 enables us to:
Defers the cost for two young adults to attend an i[2]y community support event.
Your donation of 50 enables us to:
Helps to produce and donate 25 copies of our CD/Toolkits to survivors
Board Members and Affiliation:
Dr. Leonard Sender, Board Chair
Medical Director of the Cancer Institute at Children’s Hospital of Orange County
Past and Current Funders:
Google Health, Novartis, Roche, Lance Armstrong Foundation, Heineken, Eisei, Southwest Studios, KEAS
Key Staff
Matthew Zachary, Founder/CEO
Alan Swann, Executive Assistant
Jack Bouffard, Chief Cancer Anarchist