600 family members in Cape Cod

Yesterday Beat Nb ran the Falmouth Road Race, for the 5th year in a row. It was a perfect day on Cape Cod, high 70s with a breeze rolling off the water through most of the run. The people are awesome. This was my first time running Falmouth, with over 11,000 runners showed up for the 44th annual 7.1 mile race. 200 ...

Beating Nb

In 2010, I founded Beat NB so there would be a consistent platform for all of you to support our mission to dramatically impact survival rates for children with neuroblastoma. I took this step out of necessity, because I wanted to fund treatments that could save my son - and every kid just like him - who had been told ...

#SofiaStrong finishes upfront cancer treatment!

A week ago, we hung out at All Children’s Hospital in St Pete to see 3 year old Sofia Anderson ring the oncology floor bell. All Children’s does this every time a kid finishes upfront cancer treatment, and Friday marked the end of over a year of treatment for Sofia – she’s cancer free! One of the main things Because of ...

Giving $250,800 to NMTRC neuroblastoma trials

To close out 2015, I wrote a post sharing I’d be going full time with Because of Ezra in 2016. For my first official day “on the job” (although I’ve held this job since we founded in 2011 – just part time), we headed to Grand Rapids, MI, to present a check to the NMTRC toward their neuroblastoma trials. Last ...

2015 Yearend Summary: A Letter from Beat Nb Co-Founder, Patrick Lacey

Dear Beat NB Supporters – Thanks to your extraordinary support over the past calendar year, we were able to send $800,000 to fund research and clinical trials in 2015. Whether you donated, hosted a fundraising event, sponsored an event, attended “Cure Me I’m Irish,” or ran in the Falmouth Road Race, you contributed to Beat NB’s accomplishments in 2015. Below ...

Look what you did

One of the phase I clinical trials that we funded with YOUR money was just published – you can click on the title below to read it in it’s entirety. We have been funding this trial with your donations and support from the very beginning – between directing $10,000 from one of our events to Hawaii to perform the pre-clinical work …