How Your Support Helps

Through the gracious gifts of donors, sponsors and supporters, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has awarded more than $29 million in funding to further our mission and support cancer survivorship programs and research.

See how the LAF is making a difference in your state.

Community Program
The Community Program provides financial support and capacity-building to community-centered initiatives that address the physical, emotional and practical challenges of cancer.  The LAF awards grants to community-centered, nonprofit organizations that serve the needs of people living with cancer. In addition, all community program partners' grant projects address a void or need as identified by the National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship: Advancing Public Health Strategies. The LAF also offers its Community Program partners the opportunity to discuss challenges and exchange best practices at an annual conference.  Since its inception in 2001, the LAF Community Program has awarded more than 140 grants totaling more than $3.8 million to nonprofit organizations across the United States. 

Learn more about the Community Program

Research Program
In an effort to stimulate research needed to improve the quality of life of cancer survivors, the LAF offers research grants in two areas:  issues of survivorship, and basic and clinical science of testicular cancer. Both new and established researchers have received grants to support hypothesis driven projects in these areas. The intent of the LAF research program is to fund projects that have the potential to significantly impact the lives of cancer survivors, and to fund ground-breaking projects that may lead to funding through other sources.  Since inception, the LAF has awarded researchers at academic and medical institutions over 120 grants totaling more than $14.5 million in research grants.

In 2004, the LAF funded the establishment of the Germ Cell Tumor and Tissue Bank at the University of Southern California. This facility will provide researchers with the specimens they need to answer questions about the development and treatment of testicular cancer.  The Bank has the potential to help researchers identify critical molecular markers in the blood and urine of testicular cancer patients that will allow for more rapid diagnosis and better treatment of the disease.

Learn more about the Research Program

Survivorship Centers
The LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence Network seeks to harness the expertise, experience, creativity and productivity of leading centers in an effort to significantly accelerate progress in the field of cancer survivorship. The LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence Network advances the concept of survivorship through collaboration. Working together, Network members provide essential direct survivorship services and address critical issues such as research and new interventions in order to provide the most effective survivorship care.

As part of the Network, each LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence has formal partnerships with Affiliates - community, non-profit organizations that provide direct services to traditionally underserved cancer survivors.  Through the LAF's largest grant, Network members are eligible to receive up to $250,000 per year (over five years) from the LAF to support the development and operation of programs designed specifically to meet the needs of cancer survivors. Additional funding is available for up to three community-based Affiliates per Center.

In addition to the LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence Network members, the LAF has funded activities at various Survivorship Centers since 2000.

Learn more about the Survivorship Centers of Excellence Network 

National Partnerships
To help meet the needs of people living with cancer, the LAF National Partnerships Program offers a coordinated, comprehensive approach that is aligned with the priorities established in the National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship: Advancing Public Health Strategies.

The LAF National Partnerships Program increases the visibility of cancer survivorship issues and enhances the public health infrastructure surrounding survivorship. The LAF identifies, evaluates and forms long-term, cooperative agreements with partner organizations, which leverage the strengths and resources of both organizations. Together, the organizations address the physical, emotional and practical challenges of cancer. Since inception, the LAF has awarded 17 cooperative agreements totaling more than $2 million, and pledged more than $6 million.

Learn more about our National Partners