Highlights in Giving

Retired retail executive donates $5 million estate gift to Arizona Cancer Center
10/21/2009
Margaret E. and Fenton L. Maynard

The late Fenton L. Maynard of Phoenix committed a $5 million gift from his estate to the Arizona Cancer Center to create the Margaret E. and Fenton L. Maynard Excellence in Breast Cancer Research Endowment. This is the largest gift for research activities made to the Cancer Center in its 33-year history.

The John and Doris Norton family fight prostate cancer with $1 million gift
04/02/2008

The Paradise Valley philanthropists generously gave $1 million to support prostate cancer research and establish the John Norton Endowed Chair for Prostate Cancer Research at the Arizona Cancer Center.

$1 Million Gift Establishes Levin Family Endowed Chair at Arizona Cancer Center
02/17/2009
Levin Family

A $1 million dollar gift from the Alan and Janice Levin family to the University of Arizona Foundation will fund the Alan and Janice Levin Family Endowed Chair for Excellence.

Ginny Clements speaks out: the fight of her life, her hope for the future
10/01/2007
Ginny Clements

Fathers, hope your daughters grow up to be like Ginny Clements. If they do, they’ll be confident, intelligent, and strong enough to survive most anything.

Rita Golding leaves a legacy to support lymphoma research
12/03/2007
Rita Golding

Rita Golding loves Arizona Cancer Center Hematology/Oncology Chief Thomas Miller, MD, like family. It’s likely because Dr. Miller and his wife, rheumatologist Meg Miller, MD, have always treated Rita and her late husband, Mel, like family for more than 27 years.

Diane and Tim Bowden leave a legacy for cancer biology students at the Arizona Cancer Center
12/01/2006
Tim and Diane Bowden

Cancer has claimed the lives of several of Tim and Diane Bowden’s loved ones. Their losses helped drive the adventure-loving couple, who celebrated 40 years of marriage this year, to map out a plan that honors their family, and that will perpetuate Tim’s lifelong work to prevent and cure cancer.

Fasseas gift funds new cancer clnic at UMC North
01/20/2007

The $5 million donation by Peter and Paula Fasseas toward the opening of a magnificent new Arizona Cancer Center Clinic on North Campbell Avenue is a gift that will benefit thousands of Arizonans touched by cancer.

Berge family forges friendships that endure
01/01/2007

Nancy and Craig Berge have been friends of the Arizona Cancer Center for 20 years, but they didn’t start the friendship because they or anyone they knew had been touched by cancer. It was a friendship born from their willingness to simply do something good for other people.