Many of us have had a close friend or relative who has been affected by cancer, and with the very recent losses of both singer David Bowie and actor Alan Rickman to this disease, we are all reminded of how urgent it is that we find a cure.

According to the National Cancer Institute, approximately 39.6 percent of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetimes. In 2014, an estimated 15,780 children and adolescents from infancy to age 19 were diagnosed with cancer and 1,960 died of the disease. While these can be scary statistics, luckily, there are many doctors working to develop cures. Even as a high school student, there are ways for you to help.

Last month, members of the National Honor Society collected money for The Cure Starts Now Foundation in an effort to find a cure to the disease that affects so many people. The donations will go directly towards research to find the home run cure for cancer starting with pediatric brain cancer research.

“Pediatric brain cancer is severely underfunded and with the help of HHS we can impact the lives of our future generation,” NHS secretary Olivia Delorenzo said.

According to its website, The Cure Starts Now is “one of the only cancer foundations dedicated to a ‘home run’ cure for all cancers, starting first with one of the most deadly and difficult cancers: pediatric brain cancer.”

Many experts believe that the first step to finding a cure for the many forms of cancer is heavily researching pediatric cancer.

Founded in honor of Elena Desserich, who was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma) when she was just five years old, the foundation works to find a cure to cancer so that we can eventually see less children suffering from this disease. Unfortunately, Desserich’s fight with cancer ended in 2007, but before her diagnosis, she had a passion for art and reading. Her most well known work of art, titled I Love You, was featured in the Cincinnati Art Museum alongside a work by Pablo Picasso, and serves today as the logo for The Cure Starts Now.

The foundation proclaims on its website that it represents “all children who have had, or are still battling brain cancer.” A page on the site titled “our heroes” shows the faces and the words of these children who inspire the organization to continue to work to find a cure.

We can all agree that the world would be a better place without cancer in it.  Consider donating a few dollars, or even just your leftover change to the foundation—every penny brings us one step closer to a cure.