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A Pleasanton-based nonprofit, which was formed last year and is dedicated to raising awareness and research money for pediatric brain cancer, is hosting its second fundraising gala after last year’s event helped raise $100,000 that recently went toward research.
Sandeep Kolte, one of the parents behind the Neev Kolte and Brave Ronil Foundation, told the Weekly however, that the donation and the upcoming gala are just one of many recent endeavors he and other people involved in the foundation have been up to this past year.
These efforts included lobbying trips to both the state and U.S. capitols as well as local efforts from Pleasanton kids who volunteered to try and get as many Bay Area cities as possible to proclaim September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. He said his main goal is to eventually create a movement for not just the specific type of brain cancer that killed his son Neev, but for childhood cancer in general…