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Making Headway Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to care and comfort for children with brain and spinal cord tumors while funding medical research geared toward better treatments and a cure.

History
The foundation was established in 1996 by a small group of parents — Maya and Edward Manley and Clint Greenbaum — whose own children had undergone treatment for brain tumors. They thought that traditional hospital-based medical programs were not efficient enough to reintegrate the child physically and emotionally with their families and communities.

For more than 20 years, the foundation has been supporting families of children diagnosed with brain or spinal cord tumors, providing assistance, holistic programs and services. Making Headway also supports a variety of medical grants aimed at finding improved treatments and eventually a cure.

Programs
Specific programs include: Family Events, Fairytale Yoga, Psychological Counseling, Educational Advocacy, Bereavement Services, Scholarship Funds, Neuro-Oncology Fellowship Program, and a variety of medical and clinical research grants.

Recognitions
Making Headway has been ranked at the Platinum Level by Guidestar.com and was listed as a “Top Rated” nonprofit by Greatnonprofit.org.

Making Headway was named “Non-Profit of the Year” by the Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber of Commerce. Their blog was also recently named one of the “Top 50 Brain Cancer Blogs and Websites on the Web”.

In his book Giving - How Each Of Us Can Change The World, Bill Clinton tells the story of the foundation and highlights its work.