Late November 2019, Texas voters overwhelmingly approved an additional $3billion in state-backed bond funds to expand CPRIT’s research initiative and extend the program for an additional ten years. The Carson Leslie Foundation has had a STRONG relationship with CPRIT....
More than 100 guests gathered at a private Preston Hollow estate to learn about the work of the Carson Leslie Foundation and celebrate our successes. Guests were treated to a wonderful night of decadent bites, vintage wine and spirited...
Together with the 20 year $6 Billion Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), the Carson Leslie Foundation hosted Researchers RoundUp on the 10 year anniversary of Carson’s death. We rounded up over 50 of Texas’ most outstanding...
By Jan Osborn Early Fall 2006, Carson Leslie was a 14-year old high-school freshman busy with football, baseball, golf, girls and school when he had time, when one afternoon he told his mom that he was feeling weird. Since...
Together with our newest partner the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO), we loaded an amazing group of valiant teen cancer patient in a Premier limo for a light ride, a special dinner at the Myerson and a DSO Christmas Pops!...
Always seeking to fill the void of loneliness and isolation experienced by teenage cancer patients, the Carson Leslie Foundation hosted 3 annual SHINDIGS on the oncology floor of Children’s Health Dallas. and distributed many backpacks filled with items to...
Working with Closer to the Cure, a fellow childhood brain cancer family and partner in CLF’s #cureMEdullo research initiative, we were honored to be beneficiaries of Closer to the Cure’s Bowl-A-Thon at Lucky Strike Lanes in Boston! Our Board...
The Carson Leslie Foundation founded the annual GOLDEN TOAST in Washington, DC to toast and celebrate the accomplishments the bipartisan Congressional Childhood Cancer Caucus, the childhood cancer community, and young cancer survivors for building an unstoppable collaborative GLOBAL movement...
When Kathy Martin’s doctor suggested that the longtime smoker be tested for lung cancer, the 62-year-old resident of Graham, located about 80 miles from Fort Worth, didn’t have to travel far to be screened. Thanks to a program funded...
