The Kortney Rose Foundation
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GET BRAIN TUMORS OFF KIDS' MINDS!
Kortney Rose had an unparalleled zest for life. She loved playing with friends and animals (stuffed or real) and enjoyed school at Wolf Hill Elementary in Oceanport, NJ where she was in third grade. Kortney loved basketball and played soccer, but her biggest thrills were at amusement parks and water slides. She was a daredevil with little fear and a spitfire who knew how to get her way. Her smile and laugh would brighten any room she entered or place she visited. She loved to play on her swing set and was always on the move to her next play date. Kortney Rose Gillette was a vivacious nine-year-old girl with a winning smile and a contagious spirit for life. Four months after a diagnosis of brainstem glioma, Kortney passed away from the disease on April 27, 2006. ...more
UPCOMING EVENTS
May 2 – The Today Show – Watch for our group audience as we try to raise awareness to May Brain Tumor Awareness Month. We’ll be the ones in the purple and pink with all of the signs. |
IMPORTANT PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH AND SHARE.Click Here to listen to "May is Brain Tumor Awareness Month" an Audio
PSA on 90.5, The Night
Major article in the
Healthy Living Section of The Two River Times  Click Here To View The Windows Media File Keynote speaker's address 2008 Dinner Gala 
Click Here To View The Media Player File On September 5, all three major TV networks simultaneously aired an hour-long fundraising special to raise money and awareness for cancer. To promote this unprecedented event, Katie Couric of CBS Evening News prominently featured Children's Hospital of Philadelphia with interviews by Children's Hospital pediatric brain tumor specialists Dr. Peter Phillips and Dr. Tom Curran who is also the deputy chief science officer.  Click Here To View The Windows Media File NJN News Reports May as Brain Tumor Awareness Month in NJ |
Kortney loved to draw and most often drew floppy-eared dogs with big sneakers. In third grade the dog drawings changed to pictures of girls shopping in the mall. In March of 2006, about a month before she turned for the worse, Kortney's friend Collette came over. Together they drew pictures and Collette taught Kortney how to draw a rose. Kortney's picture of the rose was even more detailed than the one you see in our logo.
At the time when I found the rose picture a professional designer was in the process of creating a logo for the foundation. While her rose was much more professional and sophisticated, I had such an emotional attachment to Kortney's rose that I had to go with my gut feeling. Kortney's rose showed a lot of artistic promise since she was only in third grade.
The Kortney Rose Foundation (KRF) is a 501(c)(3) organization that was set up by Kortney's mother as a way to help channel her grief into something positive. Her hopes are to make a difference, in Kortney's name, in the fight to find better treatments and ultimately a cure for pediatric brain tumors. Our fundraising efforts will directly benefit the pediatric brain tumor research being done at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
