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Cultivate: A Culinary Campaign To End Cancer

Saturday may 2, 2026
Silt Wine Company

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Cultivate Sacramento is a first-of-its-kind initiative in the Greater Sacramento region that unites top community leaders and culinary experts committed to bettering the lives of our urban and rural neighbors. With an emphasis on the role nutrition plays in both cancer prevention and a patient’s journey, this year-round initiative will aim to partner with local companies and organizations to bring a suite of resources to those battling food security within our local community.

Following its successful debut in 2025, our 2026 Cultivate event returns as one of Sacramento’s premier farm-to-fork culinary experiences. Guests will enjoy a vibrant evening featuring signature dishes from renowned local chefs, each showcasing the region’s agricultural richness through innovative, cancer-fighting ingredients. Together, we’ll celebrate community, impact, and the power of food as medicine.

Darce + Shari Slate

Message from our leadership

Event Executive Co-Chairs

We’re proud to co-chair Cultivate because Sacramento’s culinary innovation is unmatched. Our region pulses with world-class chefs, innovative restaurateurs, sustainable farmers, food technology pioneers, and groundbreaking health systems. Paired with ACS’s bold purpose to end cancer as we know it for everyone, the question becomes simple: why not Sacramento? Through Cultivate, we’re reimagining how nutrition can transform cancer care across America.

Our Vision Is Simple

To end cancer as we know it, for everyone.

The American Cancer Society is a global, grassroots organization driven by science, best practice, and more than 1.5 million volunteers. Our mission is to save lives, celebrate lives, and lead the fight for a world without cancer.

We fulfill our mission by funding research, providing patients with information, improving access to care, prevention, treatment, and through advocacy.

Cancer is a disease that affects everyone, but doesn’t affect everyone equally, and we are committed to providing everyone a fair and just opportunity to prevent, find, treat, and survive cancer. We believe no one should be disadvantaged in their fight against cancer because of how much money they make, the color of their skin, or where they live. Every cancer. Every life.

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Our Impact

112 Years
of wins
against cancer

For more than 10 decades, the American Cancer Society has been dedicated to pursuing better outcomes for every cancer, every life. Today, more people are surviving cancer than ever before, but there is still work to be done. Join us, support us, and help us end cancer as we know it, for everyone.

$ 5.6 B
Research

towards cancer research

53
Nobel Prize

winning scientists received research funding

111.4 M
Lives Touched

through all patient support initiatives in 2024