News & Updates

With my family, when anything was wrong, I’d want to make it better. With cancer, I couldn’t. I couldn’t make it better. All I could do is … be there.

We were built on bake sales but there are so many fun ways to help make a difference in the fight against pediatric cancer. That’s why we call it a FUNraiser! Here are just SOME ways supporters have gotten creative to help fund childhood cancer research.

Summer is here and we’ve got good news, the Good Cookie Challenge is back!  You’ve got goals and we’ve got goals. Together, we’re crushing them!

If a traumatic experience occurred in your life would you run away or would you face it and continue to fight for others? I chose to face it.

Our co-founder Gretchen Witt shares a letter to her son Liam on his birthday. “Hi Buddy, Happy Birthday. Today is the day you made me a mommy…”

Volunteering isn’t about checking a box on a college application (although it can definitely help with that too!). We checked in with 10th grader Sophia Lehmann who has been involved with Cookies for Kids’ Cancer since she was four years old!

Looking for podcasts that combine empowering stories with the power to make a difference? Look no further than these suggestions, many featuring our co-founder, Gretchen Witt! While you’re brainstorming ways to bake a difference, listen to these podcasts to find out more about our mission to help fund pediatric cancer research and why it’s so important to spread the good word about our vision, that ‘No family is ever told, we have run out of options.

We tapped three of our top women fundraisers for their best bake sale tips and strategies.

To date, we’ve granted over $21 million, funding over 130 research projects that have resulted in 25 treatments and clinical trials available to children today. These grants are the result of support from thousands of passionate people from every state and 24 countries who believe in our mission of funding the most promising research for new, improved and less toxic therapies for pediatric cancer.

If there is a word that sums up 2023 it would be perseverance.