Where Your Contribution Goes

When we say we are a non-profit organization, we mean it! There is no paid staff within SDPAC. We are 100% volunteer and all funds raised go either into production and marketing of the next “FoB” event, or are donated to carefully selected and screened charities. We do also save just a little bit to have a "thank you" party for our hardworking volunteers to show them our appreciation and to give us all a chance to get together and discuss how to improve next time.

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On Monday, June 7, 2010, SDPAC presented a check for $100,000 to Rady Children's Hospital in support of their upcoming expansion.

Our donation was matched dollar for dollar by Ledcor, meaning that we were responsible for a $200,000 contribution towards the purchase of an MRI machine.

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This donation will help them equip their planned Acute Care Pavilion. Please learn more about their plans and consider making a personal donation at the Rady Children's Hospital web site.

In October 2007 the non-profit made the latest donation of $45,000 to the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center. Their thank you letter explains more of the details. While sadly the SKCC was dissolved by our failing economy in 2009, their collective work continues to make a positive impact at other institutions throughout San Diego and in fact the whole country.

In August of 2006, members of the SDPAC Board of Directors and key volunteers presented grants to two San Diego-based cancer research facilities. These funds were generated from the 2005 San Diego Festival of Beer.

"Neither of these donations are possible without the thousands of San Diegans who buy tickets for the Festival of Beer or the hard work of our volunteers.  I join the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center and Rady Children's Hospital directors in thanking those who help us fund cancer research programs here in San Diego."

In 2005 SDPAC donated $39,000 for an ultracentrifugation instrument which provides an essential tool for analysis. It was a time sensitive need to acquire the instrument because the studies were ongoing and in the absence of a prompt acquisition the studies would come to a stand still.

This instrument allows rapid separation of complexes (centrifugation runs are short) and facilitates the ability to obtain the intact complexes and not the dissociated complex – an essential prerequisite for our studies. The table top nature of this instrument also allows flexibility of location which is necessary because proximity to other equipment facilitates rapid, and more importantly, correct analysis. This instrument has an amplifying effect on this critical area of research in cancer biology and helps to identify novel anti-cancer therapeutic and diagnostic approaches.

In 2005 SDPAC donated $15,110 to Children's Hospital and Health Center for the purchase of five Alaris Patient Controlled (PCA) Pumps. PCA pumps are used to dispense pain medication, allowing Children's patients to control the administration of their pain medicine within prescribed dosages. By allowing the patients to administer their own pain medication in a completely controlled environment the anxiety that they feel from the painful injury or long-term condition such as cancer will be reduced.

In 2004 SDPAC presented the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center with a check for $33,265 for the purchase of an Intravital Microscope setup giving SKCC a unique means to acquire real time data of micro tumor biological events in living animal tissue. The intravital microscopy equipment is vital in the study of the effects of novel drugs on  very small tumors and efficacy of new treatment.

In 2003 SDPAC presented Children's Hospital with a $19,500 check for the purchase of remote patient cardiac monitors needed in the Children's Cancer Treatment Recovery Wing of the hospital. These monitors allow the staff to be more effective and provide better treatment.

The following table details our philanthropic efforts to date.

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Last update: 19-Jun-2010