Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation

We are unique in our approach to funding childhood cancer research -- working directly with doctors, researchers, and nurses to identify the specific challenges they face in bringing new treatments to children with cancer.

Grants distributed from Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation are designed to fill the critical gaps in funding as identified by doctors and researchers across the country. Careful distribution of our grants has allowed doctors and nurses to bring the latest and most promising life saving treatments to seriously ill children. 

The result -- bringing hope to childhood cancer patients now and in the future. Alex's simple belief that she could make a difference with lemonade has surely paid off for children with cancer and their families.

Grant applications are competitively reviewed by the Alex's Lemonade Stand Scientific Advisory Board. We strive to fund the most promising research projects with a priority given to the testing and discovery of novel and more effective treatments for children and adolescents with cancer.

We fund two general categories of grants. Click the respective links below for futher details. 

• Medical Research Grants
• Nursing Research Grants

“As a new investigator, I am particularly grateful for the funds we have received from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation as they have kept my lab going. Thanks to all the hard-work at Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, we are able to proceed with our research to better understand the causes of pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma and to discover new treatments. Alex lives on through the work you do and the many others she has inspired.”

-- Dawn S. Chandler, Ph.D., The Ohio State University School of Medicine

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