Grants

It is our goal to provide a source of funding so that breast cancer research organizations can expand and create programs and opportunities to educate and find a cure for breast cancer.

The Charles A. Buerger Foundation will become the vehicle that allows creative and innovative charitable organizations to explore areas and to take on challenges that such organizations would not otherwise be able to do without risking their existing programs. It is our intention to provide, by way of example, seed money and support to allow a charity to attempt to expand the ways and means by which it fulfills its mission including its own fund-raising methods and opportunities.

The Charles A. Buerger Foundation will grant money to those charitable organizations supporting or benefiting causes that were important and meaningful to Chuck Buerger to encourage and challenge such an organization to create innovative opportunities to further its charitable mission.

In Spring 2005, the Charles A. Buerger Foundation raised $60,000 through a Mothers Day Dollar event to support Johns Hopkins cancer researcher Leisha Emens, M.D., Ph.D (www.hopkinskimmelcancercenter.org/experts/_doctor.cfm?action=1&doctorid=270) . Dr Emens is leading efforts to research ways to re-educate the immune system to target certain antigens found on metastatic cancer cells. Emens is currently conducting a clinical trial testing genetically engineered tumor cell vaccines against breast cancer.

In Winter 2004, the Charles A. Buerger Foundation committed to donate $30,000 to the Dana Farber Institute (www.dana-farber.org/pat/) over a three-year period.