The B+ Blog
Check out our blog to get monthly updates about all things B+ from our President and Co-Founder, Joe McDonough.
B+ Foundation Year in Review Video
Thank you to our generous and supportive B+ Nation for helping us make 2013 a great year. Please watch our 50 second recap video showing all that YOU helped us accomplish this year.
A Message from Ali
For days, I’ve been trying to figure out what I should write about. Knowing that I haven’t posted since August (!), I’m much over due. But I just couldn’t figure out what to post about.
Fri. Dec. 13th
Thank you to the Philadelphia Flyers for honoring Andrew and bringing a great deal of exposure to The B+ Foundation and our battle against childhood cancer.
Tues. Dec. 11th
Tomorrow (Thurs. 12/12) evening, the Philadelphia Flyers will posthumously honor my son, Andrew, at their game against the Montreal Canadiens.
Tues. Dec. 3rd
There should be so many more years between the two numbers. I was just with Christian 10 days ago at our NYU dance marathon.
Read This Before You Start Your Cyber Monday Shopping!!!
Fight Childhood Cancer on Cyber Monday (and throughout the holidays)!!!
Thanksgiving
Congratulations to B+ Hero, Joey B., on hitting his 1 year anniversary since his bone marrow transplant.
Holiday Perspective
The Greek Community at NYU came together on Saturday for the inaugural B+ 12 hour dance marathon called NYDM. I was almost speechless
Tues. Nov. 12th
Paul Campanella and his team did it again! Today, Paul (pictured on the left) handed car keys over to the family of a little girl battling cancer at A.I. DuPont Hospital.
Thurs. Oct. 31st
Imagine, as painful as it is, that your child – or mother, brother, spouse – dies. Your world is turned upside down.
Mon. Oct. 28th
The other day, we posted on Facebook about an amazing young lady named Gabriella Miller.
Thurs. Oct. 17th
Sorry that I haven’t written in a little while…no shortage of things going on. That’s a big part of the reason that I haven’t updated you.
Tues. Oct. 1
Our hearts are heavy with the news of another child taken from his family and friends by #ChildhoodCancer.
Mon. Sept. 30th
What would you do if I told you that a TRAGEDY is going to happen this week. TWO classrooms of 25 American children WILL BE KILLED this week?!
Tues. Sept. 17th
Life at The B+ Foundation has been very busy lately…sorry for being so delinquent with my updates.
Message from Ali
On Friday, we celebrated. Quietly. On Friday, my mom had her LAST chemotherapy infusion.
Mon. Aug. 19th
I’d like you to meet Liam. The “scuba dude” (see picture) is almost 11 months old and has already been through 4 rounds of chemotherapy for a Rhabdoid tumor.
Tues. Aug. 6th
I’d like you to meet 2 year old, Brody. He looks like a really healthy little guy, doesn’t he? Brody was diagnosed with leukemia the day after Mother’s Day this year.
Thurs. July 18th
As you may recall from my recent updates, I got a call on the 4th of July that one of our B+ Heroes, Alex Blythe, may have a brain tumor.
Thurs. July 11th
Congratulations to Drs. Michael Jensen, Rebecca Gardner and everyone at the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children’s Hospital.