The Goal: The Susan L. Bader Foundation of Hope, Inc, is a grass roots non-profit organization that works to give “HOPE” to patients and families dealing with Pancreatic Cancer.  Our goal is to raise funding and attention to find a cure for Pancreatic Cancer.  The SLB Foundation of Hope embraces the urgent need to find effective treatments as well as early detection methods.  Our focus is to support research efforts in the medical community, locally and on a national level.

Mission: The SLB Foundation of Hope will work to fund pancreatic cancer research through fundraising events, and personal and corporate donations.  One hundred percent of our profits go directly to our foundation for research purposes.  Our “HOPE” is to provide funding to researchers who are working to find a cure and/or early detection methods.

Highlight of a Pancreatic Cancer Survivor Peggy Kessler from Valley Springs, SD is a 10 year Pancreatic Cancer survivor!  She loves riding her horses, golfing and camping. She is involved in raising awareness of Pancreatic Cancer and she supports the SLB Foundation.

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Check Presentation from Mary Frake

Check presentation from Mary Frake in honor of her father Ernie Jesenovec who passed away from Pancreatic Cancer in 2010.
Mary is a teacher at Cascade High School in Iowa and during Pancreatic Cancer Awareness week the school raised over $4000 for the Susan L Bader Foundation.
In the photo (left to right) Tori Erikson, UI Foundation Assoc. Director, Dr. George Weiner, Director of Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Joseph Cullen, Dept. of Surgery and head of the Susan Bader Pancreatic Cancer Research at the U of I., Mary Frake, and her mother Wilma Jesenovec.