b'A RICH COMMUNITY OF BREAKTHROUGH-MAKERS HELP ADVANCE OUR MISSIONUCLA Womens Basketball Coach Cori Close has been a massive supporter of theHeather and Josh Johnston united their community of friends, family, church Dribble events since their earliest days. Her support was recognized with the first annualcongregants and colleagues from Northwestern Mutual in staging a beautiful Erin Vallelly Courage Award bestowed in October 2022. She has been instrumental incelebration of life to honor the memory of their son, Asher, who passed after growing the schools momentum for the fundraiser on and off campus and creatingjust 174 days of life. Held on what would have been Ashers first birthday, this future leaders who recognize the value of giving back to society. Thank you, Cori, foremotional event captured the lighthearted fun of childhood while spotlighting your inspiring videos and words of encouragement and for consistently being a the urgency of advancing pediatric cancer care. The Johnstons and co-host bedrock of support for pediatric cancer research.Northwestern Mutual raised $400,000 for research.Kevin Barney, Executive Director of Massachusetts Youth Lacrosse,was by our side in creating and spearheading our inauguralWhen their daughter Megan lost her life in 2011, Jim and Joanne Grant recommitted to LaCROSSe Out Cancer Challenge. supporting the work of PCRF. Every year, Jim hosts a wine dinner with his golfing friends and He is a spirited and motivating cheerleader for PCRF and our mission.reminds them of the important work PCRF continues to do in Megans honor. The Grants We are thankful that he is inspiring youth to raise money for children in need and their extended network have generously contributed in the mid-six figures to help many of whom they most likely will never meet. We also want to give a big shoutpropel research forward. Even more priceless is their tenaciousness in raising awareness about out to Mansfield Youth Lacrosse, the top fundraising team of our inaugural year.the urgency of accelerating research momentum. They are responsible for raising $7,105 for pediatric cancer research.Brett Kluewers inspiration for changing the pediatric cancer landscape stems from Brandon Ward and his team at F C Cancer Foundation partnered withhis own 20-year struggle with cancer. He now lives without both adrenal glands and Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation by granting Dying 2 Live curatedhis thyroid and has only partial kidneys. Still, Brett is always smiling and ready to lend a experiences to different members of the PCRF family. By granting these wisheshand. Brett stands up for pediatric cancer research every chance he gets, acting as an and enabling kids the chance to fulful their dreams, Brandon and his team helpunofficial PCRF ambassador at our events, on his LinkedIn page and with colleagues at us ensure that some of our youngest cancer patients retain the optimism andSteam Realty Partners. We appreciate everything you do and know that we are better the will to beat their disease.because you are on our team!We are appreciative to Danny Passovoy, Kyle Harrison and Eric Mathieu of the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) for providing PCRF with the opportunity to amplifyIt did not take John Cornuke more than an afternoon to realize that his colleagues at Nuveen the urgency of raising funding for pediatric cancer research through our LaCROSSe Outwould want to support pediatric cancer research in a meaningful way. Almost overnight, he Cancer initiative. Thanks also goes to the PLL for giving pediatric cancer patients and theirput together an employee giving campaign that took advantage of the matching program families once in a lifetime experiences at the PLL All Star Game at Gillette Stadium duringmade available by Nuveens parent company, TIAA. Nuveen employee contributions were the summer of 2022. The memories you helped create will never be forgotten! generously doubled by TIAA, raising $43,150 for PCRF. Thanks, John, for making this possible.Fundraising for PCRF is a family affair for The Fairellos. The eldest, Danny, started selling baseballs with inspirational messages for children fighting cancer when he was in fifth grade. He delivered hundreds of baseballs to children in East Coast hospitals, raising thousands Big thanks to the mens basketball team at UNC Chapel Hill who gave $15,000 ofof dollars for research. Dannys two younger sisters, Natalie and Caroline, continued the their NIL earnings to pediatric cancer research to be part of something bigger thanprogram when he went to college. One of their primary initiatives has been with Lake themselves. Thank you for demonstrating what it means to be true to a sense ofValhalla (NJ) Softball, which uses Opening Day to create awareness and fundraise for purpose and for setting an example kids and young adults can learn from. research. This past year, each of the 11 softball teams named a child battling cancer as their honorary captain and raised $6,500 on their behalf. This amazing family has now raised over $60,000 for pediatric cancer research.15'