Mission Statement
The Brain Tumor Action Network is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization established to bring awareness to the general public about brain tumors and to educate and empower brain tumor survivors, their families and friends.
BTAN has the following goals:
- To encourage those living with brain tumors, their families and friends to become advocates for brain tumor awareness.
- To foster grassroots advocacy on federal and state legislative issues affecting brain tumor survivors, their families and friends by providing information (and training) on brain tumor related public issues and effective advocacy.
- To work independently and in collaboration with other brain tumor related organizations on behalf of the brain tumor community family.
- To increase brain tumor awareness nationally through the Hidden Under Our Hats, National Brain Tumor Awareness Project in Washington, DC and at various treatment centers, conferences and fund raisers.
- To raise funds to support specific research projects.
- To create a PILOT respite care program for brain tumor survivors and their families at Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute (Tampa, FL). The respite care fund would assist brain tumor patients and their family members with additional care and support from home health care workers.
The Brain Tumor Action Network is an active member of the North American Brain Tumor Coalition.
The founders of the Brain Tumor Action Network include a father who lost his 5-year old daughter to a brain tumor, a brain tumor survivor, a wife that lost her husband to a brain tumor, and a coordinator of brain tumor research at a major cancer center. All have dedicated their lives to the brain tumor community.
All donations are tax deductible.
For more information contact BTAN.
