One girl's lemonade stand has now raised $400 million for children's cancer research

In 2000, four-year-old Alex Scott — diagnosed with cancer before her first birthday — set up a lemonade stand in her front yard to help doctors find cures for children like her. She raised $1 million before she died at eight. Her parents, Liz and Jay Scott, carried the stand forward, and this week Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation passed $400 million raised, making it the largest independent childhood cancer charity in the United States. The context matters: since the foundation's first research grant, FDA-approved childhood cancer treatments have grown from 18 to more than 60, and US childhood cancer survival has climbed from 77% to 85%. This autumn's Million Mile campaign was its biggest in 14 years — over $2.8 million raised and 960,000 miles logged by more than 11,000 people, many of them survivors who were once the toddlers this research saved, now setting up stands of their own.

SDG 3 · Good health and well-being — Mechanism: funding & finance