Grant Recipients
Awards
Awards Update 2006-2007:
- $50,000 Research Grant—pending approval
- $2,000 for Speaker at Hope Children's Hospital Symposium
- Dr. Daniel Armstrong, PhD, Late Effects of Childhood Cancer
- Mitchell Baldwin, Summit, IL
- 4 yrs old
- Diagnosed May 2005 with leukemia (ALL)
- Cal Sutter, South Elgin, IL
- 12 yrs old
- Diagnosed with advanced leukemia in June 2005. Received chemotherapy,
- relapsed, bone marrow transplant, relapsed. Cal lost his battle in August 2006
- Mark Andrew Ortiz, Glendale Heights, IL
- 3-1/2 yrs old
- Diagnosed with ALL. This was a family we helped last year. They needed a little more help as his mother could not work due to complications during his treatment.
- Giacomo (Jim) Iraci, Chicago, IL
- 36 yrs old
- Diagnosed with AML in August 2004
- We have helped this family before. We were so happy to have Jim attend our Walk/Fundraiser last year. He picked our grand raffle winners for us. Sadly, Jim lost his battle shortly after our event last year. He left behind a wife and 3 young children.
- Eric Hauck, Lake in the Hills, IL
- 39 yrs old
- Diagnosed with CML September, 2004
- Bone marrow transplant May 2005. We helped Eric for a second and then a third time as he has been dealing with many complications since his bone marrow transplant. He is still battling, but doing much better.
- Lexie Burdick, Fishers, IN (formerly of Darien, IL)
- 5 yrs old
- Diagnosed with leukemia (ALL) at 3 yrs. We helped this family in the past and they needed some additional help.
- Nicholas Gura, Montgomery, IL
- 2 yrs old
- Diagnosed with leukemia (ALL) in October 2005.
- Chester Won, LaGrange, IL
- 58 yrs old
- Diagnosed with AML—Was not able to work during treatment.
- Benjamin Gonzalez, Brookfield, IL
- 3 yrs old
- Diagnosed at 17 months with leukemia (ALL). He recently relapsed in his central nervous system.
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- $6000 grant given to Pediatric Cancer Unit to be used for the needs of low-income families with children battling cancer.
- Frankie Sobieszcyk, Plainfield, IL
- 3 yrs old
- Diagnosed with leukemia (ALL) in February 2007, already dealing with rare vision complication.
- Mackenzie Johnson, Wauconda, IL
- Now 4 yrs old
- Diagnosed January 2004 with leukemia (ALL). We helped this family last year, but she has relapsed for a second time and is fighting very hard to get a bone marrow transplant in Cincinnati, OH.