Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Patriots fans can root for their home team, while supporting the Jimmy Fund, making it a win-win for holiday shoppers this year. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute holiday cards, candles, and ornaments 2009 collection is on sale to benefit adult and pediatric cancer care and research through the Jimmy Fund. There are a total of 9 different card designs in this holiday collection. Highlights include original artwork of New England scenes, as well as New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox themed designs. New this season are e-cards and customized photo cards, which will be produced by Vistaprint. Last year’s holiday cards will be sold ... Read Full Story

The spires of The Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help tower above Mission Hill, one of Boston's most culturally diverse neighborhoods, an area filled with the very kinds of people whose causes Sen. Edward Kennedy championed for nearly half a century in the Senate. It's home to large African-American and Hispanic populations, a place where Colonial and Victorian homes that once belonged to some of the city's wealthiest residents now share space with triple-deckers and brick row houses. It's a place where lifelong residents mix with students from nearby Northeastern University and other colleges, and with workers from the Longwood Medical Area, home ... Read Full Story

Just when I was beginning to think it would never be possible to dig emotionally deep enough to warm the bitter recesses of my cold, cold heart - I get an email with a link to a story so uplifting I couldn’t not pass it on. ::: ^5 Springdaddy ::: It’s about a bunch of steely-eyed ironworkers building the new 14-story Yawkey Center at Boston’s Dana Farber Cancer Institute who have figured out a truly ingenious way to give sick children help … in the form of hope. “Every day, children who come to the clinic write their names on sheets of paper and ... Read Full Story

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Two items that are emblematic of the constantly changing landscape in the Longwood area of Boston -- home to BIDMC, the Joslin Diabetes Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Children's Hospital Boston -- not to mention several colleges, schools, museums, and religious institutions. The 1873 brick building is at the corner of Longwood and Brookline Avenues, and I wanted to document its nice detail and placement before it is razed in the coming weeks to make way for a new research building for the Joslin and other tenants. People in the neighborhood knew it mainly as the home of a ... Read Full Story