Every day, kids are fighting childhood cancer. They endure treatments, surgeries, uncertainty and challenges no child should ever have to face.
But while kids face cancer, an entire community is fighting for them.
Researchers searching for the next breakthrough. Families sharing their stories. Volunteers shaving their heads. Donors funding discoveries. Advocates raising awareness. Corporate partners investing in cures.
This is what it means when we say: When Kids Fight Cancer, We Fight for Kids.
For more than 25 years, the St. Baldrick’s community has shown what’s possible when people come together around one purpose. Every head shaved. Every dollar raised. Every story shared. Every research project funded. Each action becomes part of something much bigger—a movement working to give every child with cancer a better chance at survival.
This September, Childhood Cancer Awareness Month is more than a time to raise awareness. It’s a call to action.
Because the best way to fight childhood cancer is to fund the research that leads to better treatments and more cures.
And there’s a place for you in that fight.
1. Fight With a Donation
Behind every research breakthrough are people who believed it was worth pursuing and helped make it possible.
Your donation helps St. Baldrick’s fund researchers working to find better treatments and cures for childhood cancer. Give once during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month or become a monthly donor and help fuel progress all year long.
Fund research. Fuel hope. Donate today.
2. Carry the Backpack. Carry the Mission.
The St. Baldrick’s Backpack Challenge was inspired by a breakthrough treatment that allows kids with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) to receive therapy through a wearable backpack—giving them more freedom during treatment.
Sign up and you’ll receive your own bright green St. Baldrick’s backpack to carry as you take on the challenge. Share your journey on social media and raise funds to help fuel the next breakthrough for kids with cancer.
Go solo or invite friends, family, coworkers or classmates to join you. However you take on the challenge, every step helps move childhood cancer research forward.
Get your backpack and help Send Kids’ Cancer Packing.
3. Fundraise Your Way
Your idea. Your passion. Your fundraiser.
Host a game night. Celebrate a birthday. Take on a personal challenge. Get your school, workplace or community involved. Whatever you love to do, you can turn it into an opportunity to raise funds for kids with cancer.
There’s no single way to fight for kids—and sometimes the best fundraiser is the one only you could create.
Choose what you love. Make it matter.
4. Go Bald for Kids With Cancer
A shaved head makes a statement: kids with cancer deserve better.
For more than 25 years, St. Baldrick’s shavees have gone bald to raise funds, spark conversations and show their support for kids facing cancer.
Join a St. Baldrick’s event, organize your own or shave virtually. And with the heart of head-shaving season coming in March, September is the perfect time to get your 2027 fundraiser started.
Be bold. Go bald. Fight for kids.
5. Turn Awareness Into Action on Social Media
A post can do more than raise awareness. It can introduce someone to a child’s story, help people understand the urgent need for research and inspire someone else to take action.
Throughout September, share our Childhood Cancer Awareness Month graphics, videos, facts, research stories and stories of kids facing cancer. Add why you fight for kids and invite others to join you.
Share the message. Grow the movement.
6. Wear Your Support
What you wear can start a conversation.
Show your support for kids with cancer with St. Baldrick’s gear, or support participating partners giving back during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Every conversation is another opportunity to tell someone why childhood cancer research matters—and why kids need all of us in their corner.
Wear it. Share it. Help spread the word.
7. Speak Up for Kids
Fighting for kids also means making sure their needs are heard.
Through the St. Baldrick’s Speak Up network, advocates across the country can take action right from home, raising their voices for policies and federal funding that advance childhood cancer research.
We make it easy to contact your lawmakers and speak up on the issues that matter to kids with cancer.
Use your voice to fight for kids with cancer.
We All Have a Role in the Fight
A researcher in a lab.
A parent sharing their child’s story.
A volunteer shaving their head.
A donor making a gift.
A friend carrying a backpack.
An advocate speaking up.
A supporter sharing a post.
On their own, these actions may look very different. Together, they are how we fight childhood cancer.
That’s the power of “we.”
This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, find your way to take action. Donate. Fundraise. Shave. Carry a backpack. Share. Speak up.
Because as long as kids are fighting cancer, we’ll keep fighting for better treatments, more breakthroughs, and more cures.
When Kids Fight Cancer, We Fight for Kids.
