{"entity":{"id":"alsf","kind":"institution","name":"Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation","aka":["ALSF"],"tldr":"The childhood cancer charity that grew from four-year-old Alex Scott's front-yard lemonade stand; it funds paediatric cancer research grants and the Childhood Cancer Data Lab.","summary":"Alex Scott, a child with neuroblastoma, held her first lemonade stand in 2000 to raise money for her hospital; after her death in 2004 her parents Liz and Jay Scott turned the stands into a national foundation. Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation funds childhood cancer research grants across career stages, travel support for families in trials, and the Childhood Cancer Data Lab, which builds open data tools for paediatric cancer researchers. Its model, thousands of small community fundraisers pooled into research grants, is the pattern several later childhood cancer charities have followed.","asOf":"2026-09-10","links":[{"label":"Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation","url":"https://www.alexslemonade.org/"}],"tags":[],"related":["alexs-lemonade-stand"],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":["alex-scott"],"bottlenecks":["b-rare-cancers","b-funding-allocation","b-data-silos"],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Bala Cynwyd, PA","country":"US","lat":40.008,"lng":-75.234,"institutionType":"consortium","website":"https://www.alexslemonade.org","programs":["Childhood cancer research grants","Childhood Cancer Data Lab","Travel For Care family support","Lemonade Days community fundraising"]},"route":"/institutions/alsf/","neighbours":{"collection":[{"id":"alexs-lemonade-stand","kind":"collection","name":"Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF)","route":"/collections/alexs-lemonade-stand/"}],"person":[{"id":"alex-scott","kind":"person","name":"Alexandra \"Alex\" Scott","route":"/people/alex-scott/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-data-silos","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Data silos","route":"/bottlenecks/b-data-silos/"},{"id":"b-funding-allocation","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Funding follows fashion, not burden","route":"/bottlenecks/b-funding-allocation/"},{"id":"b-rare-cancers","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Rare and paediatric cancers without markets","route":"/bottlenecks/b-rare-cancers/"}]}}