American Cancer Society Memorial and Honor Giving

American Cancer Society Memorial and Honor Giving

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A donation to the American Cancer Society is a thoughtful way to honor someone whose life has been impacted by cancer. Gifts can be made to recognize milestones in a cancer survivor’s life or to express the sense of loss when someone loses their battle with this disease. Your donation will help saves lives and create a world with less cancer by helping people stay well, helping people get well, by finding cures, and by fighting back.

Once your gift is received, the American Cancer Society will promptly send a card to the honoree or family acknowledging your gift. Please click here for more information on our privacy policy for memorial and honor gifts.

American Cancer Society

American Cancer Society was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Note: Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Daniel R. Glickman (Dan) is the executive director, Congressional Program for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a board of director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN).

Dan Glickman

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Dan Glickman is the Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan educational program for members of the United States Congress. The program provides lawmakers with a stronger grasp of critical public policy issues by convening high-level conferences and breakfast meetings in which legislators are brought together with internationally-recognized academics, experts and leaders to study the issues and explore various policy alternatives.

He served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from March 1995 until January 2001. Under his leadership, the Department administered farm and conservation programs; modernized food safety regulations; forged international trade agreements to expand U.S. markets; and improved its commitment to fairness and equality in civil rights.

Before his appointment as Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary Glickman served for 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives representing the 4th Congressional District of Kansas. During that time, he was a member of the House Agriculture Committee, including six years as chairman of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over federal farm policy issues. Moreover, he was an active member of the House Judiciary Committee; chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; and was a leading congressional expert on general aviation policy.

Secretary Glickman is also a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C. The BPC was formed in 2007 by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell to develop and promote bipartisan solutions to the country's problems and to promote civility in government. As part of the Bipartisan Policy Center's program, he and former cabinet members Donna Shalala, Mike Leavitt and Ann Veneman co-chair an Initiative on Nutrition and Physical Activity, which recently published a Paper recommending substantially augmenting medical school training of doctors and other health care professionals in the areas of nutrition, physical activity and other prevention strategies.

Secretary Glickman served as Chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) from 2004 until 2010. Prior to joining the MPAA, he was the Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government (2002-2004).

Before his election to Congress in 1976, Secretary Glickman served as president of the Wichita School Board; was a partner in the law firm of Sargent, Klenda and Glickman; and worked as a trial attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He received his Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from The George Washington University. He is a member of the Kansas and District of Columbia Bars.

Secretary Glickman was elected to the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Board of Directors in September 2014. He is also on the board of directors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Food Research and Action Center, a domestic anti-hunger organization; National 4-H Council; and the Center for U.S. Global Engagement, where he is Chair of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. He co-chairs an initiative of eight U.S. based foundations looking at long-term implications of food and agricultural policy. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a senior fellow of the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, the Council on American Politics at The Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University, and is a member of the board of the World Food Program-USA. He is the co-chair of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' global agricultural development initiative. In 2012 and 2013 Secretary Glickman chaired an Institute of Medicine Panel on "Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention". He is the author of "Farm Futures," in Foreign Affairs (May/June 2009).