Who we are?
The Foundation of Stars supports children’s health research in Québec to give our children the chance to grow up healthy.
All of the funds raised through the Foundation’s events are distributed among Quebec’s top pediatric research centers and are used to finance research projects of great importance. Every dollar raised is used to find cures for diseases that affect children all across Quebec.
In brief :
- 50,000 generous donors
- More than 650 volunteers in over 50 fundraising activities
- Host of committed corporate partners
- Dedicated Board of directors and 11 employees
- Every dollar raised is used to find cures for diseases that affect children all across Quebec.
We fund the researchers’ projects at Québec’s four pediatric research centres
through:
- Scholarship awards and training
- Initial project funding for young
- researchers
- Pilot projects
- Project start-up funding or co-financing
Funds are distributed to support research projects in the following fields:
- Pediatric oncology
- Musculoskeletal diseases
- Prenatal and premature birth problems
- Genetics and metabolic diseases
- (polymalformative syndromes,
- developmental abnormalities, orphan
- diseases)
- Pediatric cardiology
- Respiratory diseases (sudden infant
- death syndrome, cystic fibrosis)
- Infectious diseases and immune
- problems
- Neurodevelopment
- Basic research
- Translational research
- Clinical research
- Evaluative research
