Pablove Foundation

Pablove shutterbugs is a participatory healing arts education program that teaches children living with cancer to develop their creative voice through the art of photography. Pablove offers a photography curriculum for children and teens living with cancer that includes an all-costs-paid introductory class and an advanced class, where students learn to work with photography as a means to advocate for cancer research and explore their identity while living with pediatric cancer. Pablove has been able to gather remarkable resources to support this mission by partnering with art institutions such as the museum of modern art (moma) in new york city, the huntington library, art museum and botanical gardens in los angeles, and sawyer yards in houston. Our students find respite from the difficult routine of treatment while they focus on a fun new activity: learning about photography. Every Pablove shutterbugs course culminates in a graduation and yearly student gallery shows to celebrate our young photographers - with some in-person and some virtual courses in 2023. Print sales at Pablove's gallery shows directly support the powered by Pablove research grants program.beyond the main program centers in los angeles, the bay area, seattle, new england, new york, Louisiana, and houston, Pablove is serving kids in 27 states nationwide virtually - including a steadily growing number of students who participate directly from their hospital room. In total, Pablove enrolled 191 kids in 11 in-person and virtual classes in 2023.

Pablove's powered by Pablove childhood cancer research grants program is focused on awarding $50,000 seed grants to promising, early-career investigators, enabling them to discover and apply novel approaches to understanding childhood cancer, widely distribute their findings and gain substantially greater funding for larger, more intense research projects and programs. This strategy has been remarkably successful in providing a Foundation for exceptionally valuable scientific breakthroughs in both scientific and clinical knowledge. Pablove's dream is to ensure that no brilliant, promising scientist goes unfunded in the initial phase of research needed to advance from bench to bedside. Children everywhere are in need and are waiting for the innovative treatment options and cures their research provides.in 2023, we awarded two powered by Pablove seed grants. Each award provides $50k for 1 year of funding. We also funded one powered by Pablove grant focused on opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome (oms). This award provided $100k of funding for 2 years. Pablove's research is conducted in prestigious institutions including the hospital for sick children in toronto, canada, the university of Texas, southwest dallas, Texas, the functional electrical stimulation institute in cleveland Ohio to name just a few. Each project is focused on a different rare pediatric cancer, including opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome, pediatric brain tumors, wilms tumor, and acute myeloid leukemia. Pablove strongly believes in the need to support these cutting-edge initiatives to reveal new pathways toward better treatments and ultimately cures for these challenging, often devastating, pediatric cancers. Pediatric cancer research continues to be an underserved need and we are here to do our part to make a difference. Investments to find more treatments and to reduce side effects must be found to protect the future of these precious kids.