“Research is where the hope lives.”
- Dr. Kelvin Lee, Director of the Indiana University Simon Comprehensive Cancer CenterIn 2020, the Heroes Foundation supported cancer patients by funding programs that help them claim their life back.
$25,000 to the CompleteLife Program at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center
$15,000 for the Oncology Patient Assistance Fund at Community Health
$2,570 to support healthcare heroes during the pandemic with Pay It Forward Friday (#PIFF) lunches
Thanks to our donors, partners, and supporters, the pandemic didn’t slow down fundraising for the Heroes Foundation. In 2020, we raised more than $500,000 to support our mission.
In 2019, our grants leveraged over $82,000 to help cancer patients fund food, medicine and gasoline. Watch to see why SUPPORT is so important to our mission.
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We set in motion innovative RESEARCH. In 2018, the Catherine Peachey Fund, a Heroes Foundation family member, awarded $250,000 to support the work of Dr. Hari Nakshatri.
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In 2020, the Heroes Foundation supported cancer patients by funding programs that help them claim their life back.
$25,000 to the CompleteLife Program at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center
$15,000 for the Oncology Patient Assistance Fund at Community Health
$2,570 to support healthcare heroes during the pandemic with Pay It Forward Friday (#PIFF) lunches
The mission of Project Militia is cancer prevention, promoting a healthy lifestyle, use of sunscreen, and early detection.
In 2020, Project Militia distributed more than 300 bottles of sunscreen and lip balm with SPF.
* Video was filmed in 2019
In 2020, the Heroes Foundation funded research in excess of $190,000 to support cancer research. The results of these groundbreaking projects could impact cancer treatment and prevention, not just in the state of Indiana – but worldwide.
$170,380 to breast cancer research through the Catherine Peachey Fund
$10,000 to pediatric cancer research through Team JOEY
$10,000 to jumpstart promising research through the SJP Research Fund