I hope this message finds you and yours happy and in good health. Unfortunately, not every family can claim that. I’m thinking of the nearly 15,000 families this past year who’ve heard the devastating words, “Your child has cancer.” These children and their families face a horrifying journey through physical pain, mental anguish, financial devastation, and loss. COVID-19 has only magnified cancer’s cruelty, adding fear and worry of contracting another potentially fatal disease, delaying critical treatments, and diminishing access to much needed care, comfort, and support.

This past year, Bridge To A Cure Foundation has been more determined than ever to reverse this terrifying trend through our unique, multifaceted approach to curing childhood cancer. We serve as a lead catalyst for modernizing the nation’s approach to childhood cancer research, working with the healthcare community and childhood cancer foundations to fix this broken system together.

That’s why we’ve taken on an audacious challenge: to unite and transform the childhood cancer community’s approach to research with the goal of cutting the childhood cancer death rate 50% by 2030.

We’ve accomplished much this year, despite significant challenges. In these pages you can read about our active role in advancing the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Childhood Cancer Database Initiative (CCDI) and how we’ve begun talks to partner with potential nonprofits who share our systemic approach to unite and transform childhood cancer research. As we roll into 2021, we continue to listen and learn from other childhood cancer community champions. You can expect us to hone our strategies and focus to ensure the investment that Bridge To A Cure Foundation supporters have placed in us is maximized.

We each have an important role to play in our innovative collaboration to save children’s lives. With the continued help of engaged partners, donors, volunteers, and supporters alike, we are forging new, accelerated paths to curing childhood cancer — once and for all. Together, we can fix this broken system, and spare children and families the devastating pain and anguish of a cancer diagnosis.

Thank you — big time,

Robert Martin
Founder & President