Peach Bowl

The Peach Bowl LegACy Fund Story

• The Peach Bowl LegACy Fund was created in 2019 with a $20 million donation to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to fight childhood cancer.
• The historic $20 million gift to The Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta represents the largest donation ever given by the Peach Bowl and one of the largest ever received by Children’s.
• The Peach Bowl LegACy Fund is hyper-focused on funding the most promising clinical drug trials.
• The overall goal of the Peach Bowl LegACy Fund is to ensure that high-priority novel agents, devices and treatment strategies can be tested in patients at an accelerated pace, eventually leading to additional treatment options for patients.
• Currently, the Peach Bowl LegACy Fund is sponsoring 14 ongoing clinical trials fighting a variety of childhood cancers.
• The Peach Bowl LegACy Fund was created and named in honor of Anna Charles Hollis (“A.C.”).
  • Anna Charles Hollis, the six-year-old daughter of Benji Hollis, the Peach Bowl’s vice president of sales, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) on April 15, 2018. After a five-month fight, Anna Charles succumbed to the disease and passed away on September 16. Anna Charles’ fight against AML has served to focus the Peach Bowl’s gift and is the inspiration for the Peach Bowl LegACy Fund, named in her honor, and meant to carry on her fight.
• Since the launch of the Peach Bowl LegACy Fund in September 2019, Peach Bowl, Inc. has funded 14 clinical trials at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta focused on a variety of cancer diagnoses, including malignant brain tumors, solid tumors, neuroblastoma, acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), acute graft vs. host disease and high-grade gliomas.