our
IMPACT
Since 2014,
The Brooke Healey Foundation has raised more than
$4,000,000
Our mission is to build awareness and raise funds for research in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG); help families dealing with pediatric cancers, especially brain cancers and DIPG; promote involvement through scholarships awarded to civically active students.
Pediatric brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer-related death among children and adolescents ages 0-19 years.
<1% of children with DIPG survive
BUT WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS
Learn more about the research we support.
MAKING PROGRESS
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Thanks for your support. Together we can win the fight.
Here are some critical milestones we hit in the last decade.
Helped create the DIPG Registry, first of its kind, centralized system so researchers can collaborate to make progress faster (It's become an AI engine for cancer research and is being replicated by other organizations like the Children's Brain Tumor Network.)
Continue to play a role in growing the DIPG/DMG Collaborative — made up of nearly 90 foundations worldwide working together to fund DIPG research
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Supported "the most innovative breakthrough in cancer research" — flash proton therapy, reducing DIPG treatment from 25 days to just 5 days
Influenced the reduction in DIPG drug development from 20 to 7 years
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Supported research that led to increased life expectancy after DIPG diagnosis from 8 months (when Brooke was diagnosed) to 2 years and counting!
Much of this progress depends on the dedicated scientists and doctors who do the hard work. This number has grown significantly too. Only 9 of these experts, plus a handful of families and foundations attended the first DIPG/DMG Collaborative Symposium. In 2025, hundreds were there.
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"Because we're supporting the research," Steve Healey explained during a recent speech. "It used to be a no-win career because there was no funding."
Steve concluded, "It's really important for everyone who supports us to know your dollars are not wasted. You're making a huge, huge difference in research, not to mention helping so many families in financial disarray from a cancer diagnosis."