Purple Promise Foundation to End Melanoma

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Grants Awarded from The Purple Promise Foundation

As of June 1, 2023, The Purple Promise Foundation to End Melanoma has helped to fund over 20 grants to a variety of organizations and research efforts throughout the country and internationally.

In 2017, The Purple Promise Foundation crossed an exciting threshold of having donated over $200,000 since its founding in 2008.

Thank you to all of our generous supporters; these grants would not have been possible without all of you and your dedication to helping in the fight to end melanoma.

Last updated June 2023

June 2011
$15,000 grant was given to the Girl Scouts of North-Central Alabama. It funded sun-safety summer camp programs in the Birmingham area which reached 1,119 young girls & boys.

July 2011
$15,000 grant was given to the Girl Scouts Nations Capital to fund a week-long sun-safety day camp for over 200 young women in grades K-6 from northern Virginia.

November 2011
$15,000 grant was given to the Girl Scouts Nations Capital to provide funding for the 2012 summer camp sun-safety program.

Purple Promise Foundation Grant Recipients

Girl Scouts
Our support of the Girl Scouts' Sun Safety programs and camps helps to educate girls on the causes, types, and symptoms of skin cancer; connect with others to identify how they can protect themselves from skin cancer, and take action to educate others about skin cancer to help save lives.

Levine Cancer Institute at Carolinas Medical Center now Atrium Health
Helping to support ongoing research in the advancement of new treatments for late-stage melanoma and to identify which patients are most likely to have a positive response to those treatments.

Make-A-Wish Foundation
Helping to grant the wishes of those affected by melanoma.

November 2011
$15,000 grant was given to fund sun-safety partnership with the Girl Scouts of the Nations Capital for their June 9, 2012 100th-anniversary event on the Mall in Washington, D.C. It was estimated to have 200,000 people in attendance.

November 2011
$25,000 grant was given to Levine Cancer Institute at Carolinas Medical Center now Atrium Health. The grant will help to fund the program which will increase the effectiveness of a chemotherapy treatment designed for late-stage melanoma patients.

March 2013
$15,000 grant was given to the Girl Scouts Council of the Nations Capital to provide funding for the 2013 summer camp sun-safety program.

April 2014
$15,000 grant was given to the Girl Scouts Council of the Nations Capital to provide funding for the 2014 summer camp sun-safety program.

April 2015
$15,000 grant was given to the Girl Scouts Council of the Nations Capital to provide funding for the 2015 summer camp sun-safety program.

May 2015
$32,064 grant was given for the second time to Levine Cancer Institute at Carolinas Medical Center now Atrium Health. The additional grant will continue to help fund the program which will increase the effectiveness of a chemotherapy treatment designed for late-stage melanoma patients.

April 2016
$20,000 grant was given to the Girl Scouts Council of the Nations Capital to provide funding for summer sleep away camp at Camp Potomac Woods. The camp was attended by 1,200 young girl scouts.

March 2017
$6,000 grant was given to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central & Western North Carolina to grant the wish of a local &-year-old diagnosed with melanoma. She and her family were given the opportunity to go on an Alaskan cruise.

May 2017
$12,500 grant was given to the Girl Scouts Hornets' Nest Council to fund sun-safety awareness projects at the Girl Scouts Hornets' Nest Council Camp / Dale Earnhardt Environmental Leadership Campus at Oaks Spring in Statesville, NC.

October 2017
$62,000 grant was given to Levine Cancer Institute at Carolinas Medical Center now Atrium Health for the third time to help fund the next stage of increasing the effectiveness of immunotherapy treatment.

March 2018
$7,900 grant was given for the second time to the Girl Scouts Hornets' Nest Council to fund sun-safety awareness projects at the Girl Scouts Hornets' Nest Council Camp / Dale Earnhardt Environmental Leadership Campus at Oaks Spring in Statesville, NC.

May 2019
$1,700 grant was given for the third time to the Girl Scouts Hornets' Nest Council to fund sun-safety awareness projects at the Girl Scouts Hornets' Nest Council Camp / Dale Earnhardt Environmental Leadership Campus at Oaks Spring in Statesville, NC.

The Purple Promise Foundation to End Melanoma | P.O. Box 790033 | Charlotte, NC 28206

The Purple Promise Foundation is registered in North Carolina as a nonprofit organization. The Purple Promise is a public charity exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and the organization’s Federal Identification Number (EIN) is 45-0594179.