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Brave the Shave is the region’s largest fundraiser on a mission to fight childhood cancer through family support and research. At Brave the Shave’s first annual event in 2008, the goal was to raise $10,000 and shave five willing heads. Area organizations, schools, citizens, and kids not only accepted that challenge and accomplished that mission, they blew it away and have continued to set the bar higher for each year’s campaign. Since then, nearly 2,200 volunteers have shaved their heads and raised more than $2.2 million for kids with cancer. The Brave the Shave Family Fund honors and supports more than 60 area families impacted by childhood cancer. The Family Fund, administered through the Bismarck (ND) Cancer Center and guided by a steering committee made up of our partnering organizations and a family representative, facilitates wrap-around services and support to honoree families to help make a difference in their fight, providing for needs such as air filters for their homes, gas cards to get to appointments hundreds of miles away, relief from the ever-growing mountain of bills and many other unexpected expenses that go along with this horrible diagnosis. The Family Fund serves to lessen these families’ burdens so they can focus on what’s most important — their child’s health.
