Worth cause.

ThinkCure, an organization launched in 2007 by the Los Angeles Dodgers, the McCourt family, City of Hope and Childrens Hospital Los Angeles has named Janet Clayton its first president. The charity is focused on raising funds to support cancer research.

Clayton, a native of Los Angeles, was an executive with the Los Angeles Times. She started as a reporter and eventually became California editor, where she ran the paper's largest news staff. She was editor of two Pulitzer Prize-winning series.

ThinkCure is modeled after the Jimmy Fund in Boston, which is also dedicated to cancer research. The McCourt family has been associated with the Jimmy Fund since it started in 1948, when Frank McCourt's grandfather, Francis McCourt, was an owner of the Boston Braves. Today, the Jimmy Fund is the official charity of the Boston Red Sox.

Fundraising efforts will start during the preseason with a Dodgers-Red Sox exhibition game March 29. The game will be played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Net proceeds of the game will go to ThinkCure. Jamie and Frank McCourt already have announced that they will match donations up to $1 million.