Annual Giving

The Arizona Cancer Center is among the nation’s best NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers. Research with a global impact is conducted here every day.  Annual giving for the Arizona Cancer Center provides opportunities for discovery, promotes knowledge and education and enables the Center to expand hope.

Your annual gifts support the Director's Fund for Excellence.  This unrestricted fund allows the Director of the Arizona Cancer Center to support innovative programs, urgent priorities, and other unforeseen opportunities that arise througout the year.  With the state providing less than 3 percent of the Center's annual budget, your support is more crucial than ever. 

Please consider a gift every year and make a difference every day.

IMG_3729.jpgSeed funds are a way we can put your gifts to work immediately.  Seed money helps a researcher gather preliminary data needed to compete successfully for peer-reviewed grants.  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other funding agencies decide to fund projects based on this preliminary data.  In this direct way, you get the process started. 

In 2010, Beth Jacobs, PhD was awarded a multi-million dollar research grant from the NIH.  Her initial studies were started with a $5,000 gift made through the Director's Fund for Excellence. Learn more about Dr. Jacobs' research.

 

Your Gifts at Work

Generous people across the country are passionate about supporting research, education and outreach at the Arizona Cancer Center to make the world a healthier place for generations still to come.  Together, their generosity, whether the gift is large or small, provides more than $2 million each year, which underwrites a full spectrum of programs and initiatives. 

Projects funded through annual giving include:

  • Research to learn how prostate cancer cells migrate along nerves that pass through the prostate gland to escape and migrate.
  • Public education and outreach initiatives such as the distribution of sun safety products to elementary age children.
  • The recruitment of star faculty.

Donors Make a Difference

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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. Read more about how the Berge's make a difference. 

 

To learn more, please contact
Keri Valdes
(520) 626-5521
kvaldes@azcc.arizona.edu