Jon, a Tampa native and Jesuit graduate started the Foundation just over a year ago. Jon found himself, his wife, Jill, and their two young children Jake and Jamie facing Jill's Stage IV metastatic breast cancer. Jill and Jon realized early on in Jill's fight the disease was not just attacking her body, it was affecting their entire family. Jill and Jon decided they needed to treat their family along with the cancer, formulating something positive and tangible out of the unfair and cruel.

The Albert's knew that for their kids, strong memories of special times together would be their greatest inheritance. From this notion, The Foundation was born. Jill's 4 1/2 year battle came to a rest just over a year ago, but her vision to make something out of the harsh realities of cancer was just beginning and is now growing strongly:

"The children need a break…they just need a break; and so do the parents. This Foundation needs to continue….it must."