SHADE Foundation

By Jessica Hackett
After Shonda Schilling’s doc­tor told her she had melanoma, she said she walked out of the office and still wanted to tan.
Schilling, wife of Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, told Stonehill College stu­dents Tuesday, April 1, she did not under­stand the seri­ous­ness of her skin can­cer, but after four surg­eries and a num­ber of permanent […]

DOVER  —  The Red Sox may be 1,500 miles away, but Red Sox Nation can put on their rally caps Friday for another impor­tant cause.
Shonda Schilling, wife of leg­endary Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, will be at the Elks Lodge for a Boston Marathon fundraiser to ben­e­fit the SHADE Foundation, which she started a year after she was diag­nosed with […]

11^th Annual Awards Recognize SHADE Foundation of America in Raising Awareness of Dermatology PHOENIX
The American Academy of Dermatology pre­sented the 2008 Gold Triangle Awards dur­ing its 66^th Annual Meeting in San Antonio. National orga­ni­za­tion, SHADE Foundation of America, was one of 32 win­ners in the media, indus­try, health com­mu­nity orga­ni­za­tion, and health indi­vid­ual cat­e­gories for […]

Blue Lizard & SHADE along with Walgreens drug stores and local der­ma­tol­o­gists are on site con­duct­ing free skin can­cer screen­ings through the week­end. “Twenty can­cer­ous lesions were detected dur­ing screen­ings on Friday”, reports Jeff Bedard, CEO of Blue Lizard. “Through early detec­tion we hope to save lives and bring sun safety aware­ness to thou­sands of […]

The SHADE Foundation would like to turn your atten­tion to the Boston Youth Zone. The Youth Zone offers recre­ational oppor­tu­ni­ties for city kids.
More infor­ma­tion avail­able at BostonYouthZone.com.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN  —  Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and Minnesota Twins pitcher Johan Santana are use to match­ing up against each other on the base­ball field, but today they used their celebrity sta­tus to spread the word about pro­tect­ing your skin. Both all-star pitch­ers have been deeply affected by melanoma, the most deadly form of skin […]

Students enter SunWise with Shade Poster Contest
Baltimore County, MD  —  Shonda Schilling, the Founder of the SHADE Foundation of America and wife of Boston Red Sox Pitcher Curt Schilling, shared impor­tant infor­ma­tion about sun-safety with stu­dents at Colgate Elementary School in Baltimore, MD today. Statistics indi­cate 1 in 5 kids will grow up to develop skin can­cer, the most […]

By Thomas R. Kressler, Democrat Staff Writer
In 2005, Shonda Schilling, wife of Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, laced up her run­ning shoes and hit the streets of Beantown for the Boston Marathon.
Following a suc­cess­ful bout with malig­nant melanoma, run­ning the gru­el­ing race was a way to reclaim her life, Schilling said dur­ing Saturday’s fundraiser at The […]

New Video Makes It Easy to Conduct Self Skin Exams; Allows Consumers to Take More Control of Their Health in Detection and Prevention of Melanoma
NEW YORK  –  (BUSINESS WIRE)  –  HealthiNation, an emerg­ing dig­i­tal health edu­ca­tion net­work, and The SHADE Foundation of America, a non-profit orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to erad­i­cat­ing skin can­cer through the edu­ca­tion and pro­mo­tion of sun safety, today […]