Welcome to the Jacob Michael Davis Foundation MISSION STATEMENT The burdens brought by childhood cancer impact patients first but they also impact parents siblings extended families caregivers and even entire communities. These burdens may be physical emotional psychological financial or organizational. No one can predict whether a family will celebrate the joy of a cure or the searing pain of a loss. The Board of Directors of the Foundation has learned through personal experience that a diagnosis of childhood cancer gives rise to a thousand unforeseen pressures.