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Our Spring 2019 BMF CARES Spotlight is Liam Wirtner, a sweet, happy 4 year old from Warrior’s Mark who is currently in treatment for B cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B cell ALL).
Liam’s mother, Jill Lewis, reports, “Liam won’t be done with his treatments until October of 2021, which feels like an eternity, but he continues to stay strong and happy. He has an entire Army behind him praying and supporting him and our family along the way. He has an amazing family support system. With all of the love, prayers, and support he will overcome this disease that does not discriminate. As Liam likes to say “’I’ve got this.”
For more of Liam's story, click here.
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What an amazing night!!
April 13, 2019
Tyler Robinson is a senior at Altoona Area High School. He had a fantastic idea for his senior project - a charity alumni basketball game from which all proceeds and donations will go to the Brian Morden Foundation.
Current Altoona students played the Alumni of Altoona including players like
Doug West and Vince Nedimyer. The alumni won, but it was a wonderful night for all kinds of winners! Tyler and his army of supporters raised $4800 to help the Brian Morden Foundation help kids with cancer!! THANK YOU to all who had any part of this amazing night!
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Brian Morden Memorial Scholarships - 2019
Applications available now - postmark by 3/17/19
Thanks Grammy (and PopPop) for your yearly birthday gift to Brian
and the BMF, ensuring that we will be able to award
a Brian Morden Memorial Scholarship.
Thank you to those who organized and participated
in the Erin Dodson Scholarship Fund Basket Raffle in September 2018
and others who have generously given
so that we will be able to award
Erin Dodson's Memorial Scholarship again this year.
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Brian’s and Tim’s Big 35th Birthday Bash for BMF kids
was a huge success.
Thank you to all who helped make it so!
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January's BMF CARES Spotlight*
is
Brian Morden
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*At our annual board meeting on Brian's birthday (1/10/18),
the BMF Board created BMF CARES Spotlight, a program that hopes to shine a light on our
Children with Cancer, Raise
Awareness, and Provide Funds for
Research, Education, and Support for children with cancer and their families.
Each month a local child with cancer will be in the spotlight. The Brian Morden Foundation will provide information about that child as well as the type of childhood cancer with which they were diagnosed. Families may suggest an organization or individual researcher to whom they’d like the BMF to send a $1000 donation in honor of their child for the purpose of research or support to children with cancer and their families.
You can find more information about our children at the BMF CARES Spotlight page.
For more information or to donate to the Brian Morden Foundation, please contact Dawn Morden, president of the BMF at dbjmorden@brianmordenfoundation.org or 814-946-9369. Contributions may also be made at the Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation or here on the BMF website at http://brianmordenfoundation.org/support.html.
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February 15, 2019 - Sixteen years later, still remembering Brian, his life,
and those he loved who continue to support local children with cancer,
pediatric oncology units at PA Children's Hospitals, award higher education scholarships,
and fund promising research studies through
The Brian Morden Foundation.
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The Brian Morden Foundation and Alex's Lemonade Stand
Team Up to Fund Childhood Cancer Research
March 14, 2019
The Brian Morden Foundation Board has agreed to fund another study to be determined in the near future!
February 15, 2016
13 years after Brian passed away from Ewing’s Sarcoma, cancer has not won the battle. Brian’s legacy continues through the lives of many others. The Brian Morden Foundation is excited and grateful to be able to announce a partnership with Alex’s Lemonade Stand.
Initially, we will be helping to fund a promising research study by John Bushweller, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Cancer WILL NOT win.
For more information, please see the press release.
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Happy 35th Birthday, Brian
January 10, 1984
SuperBrian
Please sign our guestbook to help us celebrate his life.
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YOU can make a difference
in the lives of the innocent children and families
who have to suffer with this horrendous disease.
Some suggestions from the Brian Morden Foundation:
- Send cards to children with cancer. Contact the BMF for addresses.
- Donate to the Brian Morden Foundation through our website.
You will be helping to fight back against childhood cancer.
- Adopt "Issy" to send to a childhood cancer patient, give to a loved one, or keep for yourself.
- Help Issy spread the word about the need for childhood cancer research!
- Support the BMF through the purchase of an ornament or other merchandise
- Attend any upcoming BMF event!
Please see our National Childhood Cancer Awareness page to find out more.
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*Brian was lovingly cared for at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, the initial focus of the second BMF goal. We still plan to contribute in important ways to the oncology unit there, however, we have expanded our outreach with Brian Baskets and "Issy" bears, sending them to other pediatric cancer patients especially to those in the Altoona Area, Janet Weis Children's Hospital in Geisinger, Penn State Children's Hospital in Hershey, and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where some of our area children are being treated. We have also tried to brighten up the day for some children from the Ewing's Sarcoma list serv. If you know a child with cancer who could use a "pick-me-up," please contact us at fdj@brianmordenfoundation.org. We hope to be able to help as many pediatric oncology patients as possible.
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last updated 3/15/19
