Unravel Iowa's Go Gold Gala 2024

Join us for Unravel Iowa's 3rd Annual Go Gold Gala!!

It will be an evening of inspiration and impact, focused on funding truly innovative pediatric cancer research and bringing about promising new treatments.

*NOTE: Silent Auction Closes at 8pm CST on Friday, April 12th! 

• Cost per person:  $125
• Date:  April 12, 2024
• Time:  6-10pm
• Location:  The Loft, Downtown Des Moines

*Unravel is a 501 (c)(3) focused on accelerating innovative pediatric cancer research to help researchers develop better and more targeted therapies. 

**If you win an auction item and you are unable to pick up at the end of the night, we can coordinate pickup in West Des Moines, or we will be happy to ship to you at cost.  Happy Bidding!

Unravel Pediatric Cancer Iowa was proudly founded in memory of Elayna Grace Sandeen of West Des Moines, Iowa.

Elayna was a world-changer. She fought cancer bravely from the time she was diagnosed at age 5, until she passed away at age 9, in 2018. She fundraised for Unravel herself during her treatment because she believed with her whole heart that this organization would one day be part of the answer for kids like her. A breakthrough didn't come in time for Elayna, but her family and community continues to fight in her memory, and in the memory of so many other beautiful children who have died of childhood cancer.

We continue to look ahead with hope to the changes we can make for the children who are still fighting, and who have yet to be diagnosed. It is the goal of Unravel Iowa to help bring necessary funding to those researchers, scientists and doctors who have innovative ideas in the field of pediatric cancer research so that new methods of treatment- ones that are less toxic and more successful for our youngest warriors - can be found more quickly.

So that kids like Elayna get to grow up.

Unravel is a 501 (c)(3) focused on accelerating innovative pediatric cancer research to help researchers develop better and more targeted therapies. Many of the therapies we currently give our children to treat their cancers were developed for adults and are simply "dosed down" for children's small bodies. Adult and childhood cancers develop and progress differently. Our youngest cancer warriors are in need of new therapies to help children not only survive cancer but live long and healthy lives afterward. Less than 4% of all federal funding for cancer research is directed towards pediatric cancer, but our smallest warriors deserve so much more than that.