The Impact of Year-End Giving: How Your Donation Creates Change

As the year comes to a close, we’re reflecting on the milestones your generosity has helped make possible and looking ahead to the bright futures we can create together. Every dollar you give to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer fuels the fight for children battling cancer, funding research that leads to new, improved and less toxic treatments. This year, your support is helping us take another bold step forward through our Future Full of Firsts campaign.

A future full of firsts means a world where every child with cancer has the chance to experience life’s milestones: first days of school, first recitals, first celebrations and all the moments in between. By giving before December 31, you help us invest in groundbreaking pediatric cancer research that brings us closer to making these firsts possible for every child.

Since our founding, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer has granted more than $23 million, funding over 140 research projects across the country. Those grants have helped develop 60 new treatments now available to children, real progress fueled by real people like you. Every dollar, every project, every breakthrough represents a brighter future for kids facing cancer because someone chose to give.

Your donation this year doesn’t just help a child today, it changes what’s possible for every child tomorrow. It supports scientists working tirelessly in labs to uncover breakthroughs. It brings hope to parents sitting by their child’s hospital bed. And it moves us one step closer to the day when no family has to hear the words “we have run out of options”

This holiday season, give the gift that changes lives. When you contribute before December 31, your generosity fuels research that creates lasting change turning fear into courage, heartbreak into hope, and diagnosis into possibility.

Meet some of our Tough Cookies and the special firsts that mean the most to them:

Eloise got to enjoy her first airplane ride!

Julie had her first day of school!

Mateo traveled to Greece to attend his first wedding!