CONFERENCE CAUSE 2016

City of Hope
2016 was the 13th annual Conference Cause and our fourth time in Chicago. In past years we have supported Special Olympics, Greater Chicago Food Depository and Ronald McDonald House.

$45,000 was donated to City of Hope. 100 blankets were made by volunteers for their patients.

City of Hope is a world leader in cancer, diabetes and HIV/AIDS research, treatment and prevention. They transform laboratory breakthroughs into treatments that outsmart disease. Combining science with soul to work miracles – they care for the whole person, so life after illness can be rich and rewarding.

– Helped create medicines that benefit 100 million people each year

– Performed more than 12,000 bone marrow and stem cell transplants in the sickest of patients – giving 30,000 additional years of life

– Created a pipeline of 35+ novel drugs, biological and cell therapies with the most first-in-human clinical trial of any other center