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Bite Me Cancer Foundation
The Bite Me Cancer Foundation is a nonprofit
501© 3 organization, founded in Fairfax, Virginia in September 2010 by Nikki Ferraro and her parents, Sharon Ferraro and C. Michael Ferraro. Bite Me Cancer was founded with the goal to support teens with cancer, in addition to providing funding to research and improve awareness and advocacy for thyroid cancer (Bite Me Cancer, 2015, About). Bite Me Cancer partners with the American Thyroid Association to raise awareness and fund grants across the United States of America. Bite Me Cancer seek to both support teenagers with cancer, and raise fund for thyroid cancer research. Bite Me Cancer's Federal Tax ID number is 27-355418.
== Foundation History ==
Nicole Ferraro was diagnosed with medullary thyroid cancer, a rare form of thyroid carcinoma, in April 2010. Immediately following her diagnosis, she organized a Relay for Life team in support of her diagnosis, and two weeks later finished as the #1 individual fundraiser in South Atlantic Region of the American Cancer Society after raising over $20,000. Two months after the formation of Bite Me Cancer, Nicole Ferraro received the 2010 Leadership Fairfax Non-Profit Educational Leadership Award. The following year, she received the first ever Perlita Liwanag Scholarship from the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults at Chantilly High School. Bite Me Cancer focuses on supporting teens undergoing cancer treatment, in addition to supporting the progression of thyroid cancer research and treatment development.
In September 2013, Bite Me Cancer became a member of the Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area. On July 31, 2014, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe declared the third week of January, starting in 2015, Teen Cancer Awareness Week in the Commonwealth of Virginia, thanks to the hard work and determination of Ferraro and the Bite Me Cancer Foundation. McAuliffe stated in his declaration that “the health and safety of all Virginians is essential to the happiness and well-being of the Commonwealth’s families and communities, whereas cancer is the leading cause of death in the adolescent population, and whereas the survival rates for adolescent cancer have not improved in the last thirty years.” The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors provided a proclamation for Teen Cancer Awareness Week in January 2015, and Bite Me Cancer officially announced on January 4, 2015 that the awareness week would begin the same year. In his declaration, Governor McAuliffe also highlighted the fact that many teens battling cancer are “isolated from their friends and family,” and noted the importance of “vigorously” supporting them as they return to everyday social and academic settings. Bite Me Cancer and the Commonwealth of Virginia continue to raise awareness in schools and homes with this annual event.
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