Organization Details:

Solving Kids' Cancer is a New York City non-profit (a designated 501(c)(3) charity) founded in September 2007 by two fathers who lost their children to pediatric cancer. Our dream is to extend life for children with the deadliest forms of childhood cancer today while making survivorship possible by 2015. Solving Kids’ Cancer is dedicated to facilitating the development of therapies to improve survivorship of the deadliest children’s cancers through an innovative and aggressively funded model. Our organizational values support our vision and mission.
• Compassion because every kid deserves to grow up
• Stewardship on behalf of children is central to everything we do
• Innovation in our approach to solving the deadliest children's cancers
• Modesty in our interest in all compelling therapeutic ideas no matter their origin
• Determination evidenced in our relentless pursuit of therapeutic progress
• Urgency to rethink conventions and expedite all aspects of therapeutic development
• Responsibility on every level to actively identify, fund and manage our scientific programs

Description and/or History:
Solving Kids’ Cancer was created by parents with a first-hand understanding of the current landscape in pediatric oncology where the system that is in place to serve kids afflicted with the deadliest forms of pediatric cancer is failing. Survivorship for these cancers is a mere 30%, a rate that has not improved in 30 years. This is an unacceptable survivorship rate. Without a coordinated and focused understanding and sense of mission with regards to solving this problem, the system will remain not just ineffectual, but completely broken.

Solving Kids’ Cancer has been created not as a conventional charity but as a non-profit enterprise that manages and funds a new model in therapeutic development for pediatric cancer. We began by imagining the ultimate goal - improving survivorship for kids - then worked backward to create a plan. Solving Kids’ Cancer does not attempt to transform the existing system through advocacy and awareness efforts. We believe in changing the system by facilitating the research and development process through our scientific programming. SKC envisions a system that serves cancer kids immediately, while simultaneously embarking on daring research projects that lead to curative therapies once and for all.

Contact people:

Natalie McDonald, Project Director, (917) 325-2045, (email) Scott Kennedy, Executive Director, (646) 283-0347, (email)

Address:

598 Madison Avenue 6th Floor New York, NY 10022 (See a map)

Directions:

Located on Madison Avenue between 57th and 58th Streets