Dana-Farber is constructing its Yawkey Center for Cancer Care, a 14-story, 275,000-square-foot clinical care and clinical research facility, which is scheduled to open in Spring 2011. Designed with advice from patients, families, and staff, the Yawkey Center will enable Dana-Farber to provide an increasing volume of patients its trademark compassionate, family-centered, and state-of-the-art care, while also creating an environment that fosters healing and facilitates smart clinical trials based on the genetics of each patient ™s tumor.

We are indebted to the literally millions of donors who have supported us during our campaign, said Dana-Farber President Edward J. Benz Jr., MD. They have made a very real difference in the lives of thousands of people with cancer and have brought us substantially closer to our goal of beating this terrible disease.

To date, more than 1.7 million gifts of all sizes were received, with 107 gifts of $1 million or more, and 703 gifts of $100,000 or more. Every Dana-Farber trustee has made a gift during the campaign, and 96 percent of Dana-Farber ™s senior faculty contributed very early on, showing their confidence in what the campaign could accomplish.

Transformative gifts were received from several individuals and organizations, including $153 million over six years from the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge bike-a-thon, $50 million from Susan F. and Richard A. Smith, $30 million from the Yawkey Foundation, and $20 million from the Linde Family Foundation.

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