The Jimmy Fund
Dana-Farber's fundraising arm since 1948, born from a radio broadcast at a boy's bedside; the Boston Red Sox have been its partner since 1953 and the Pan-Mass Challenge its largest source of money.
Overview
The Jimmy Fund began in 1948 when a national radio broadcast from the bedside of a 12-year-old patient of Sidney Farber, known only as Jimmy, brought in donations for the Children's Cancer Research Foundation. It has been part of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute since then and funds its research and patient care. The Boston Red Sox have partnered with the Jimmy Fund since 1953, with Ted Williams as its best-known champion. The Pan-Mass Challenge bike ride has raised over $1 billion for Dana-Farber through the Jimmy Fund and now accounts for most of its annual revenue.
- Pan-Mass Challenge
- Boston Red Sox partnership
- Jimmy Fund Walk and Radio-Telethon
- Jimmy Fund Clinic support
After his mother died of melanoma he organised a bike ride across Massachusetts in 1980 with 36 riders; the Pan-Mass Challenge has since raised $1.125 billion for Dana-Farber and passes on every rider-raised dollar.
From the 1940s until his last clinic visit in 1999 the greatest hitter in baseball raised money for Dana-Farber's Jimmy Fund and visited children on the wards on condition that no one wrote about it.
A 12-year-old lymphoma patient of Sidney Farber whose 1948 radio broadcast launched the Jimmy Fund, which has funded Dana-Farber for more than 75 years.
In 1947-48 he showed that the folate antagonist aminopterin could send childhood leukaemia into remission, the first drug ever to do so. He then built Dana-Farber and, with Mary Lasker, won the 1971 National Cancer Act.
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