In case you missed it last week, here is the Atlanta Fox 5 story about Team Summer’s 100th gift! Atlanta Teen’s Gift-Giving Chain Continues to Change Lives
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FOX5 Atlanta is running a story tonight – Monday, April 2nd – about Team Summer! Channel 5, 5:00pm show, expected to air around 5:45pm. Same great team of Beth Galvin and Eli Jordan who did all the other wonderful stories about Summer and Team Summer. Fox5 was there when Team Summer kid Kailyn recently gave…
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Despite more than a decade difference in their ages, Monica and Team Summer kid Jocelyn have a unique bond. Sure, they have their cancer fights in common (3rd battle with leukemia for Monica; cancer of the retina for Jocelyn), but there is something else that’s hard to explain. They just click! Their mothers became friends…
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Happy 22nd Birthday, Summer!! A Message From Her Mother Today would have been Summer’s 22nd birthday, had cancer not taken her from us. As we do every year, those who love her are left to wonder what she would have been like as a young adult – what she’d be doing, what direction her life would…
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It took awhile to add it all up, but the total for the end-of-year matching gift campaign is finally done! As you may remember, we began the campaign last November 11th with an $11,000 matching gift fund from this group of wonderful donors: Melissa and Kirk Demetrops Haley and Paul Dozier Emily Ellison and Chuck…
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If ever a girl needed a party, it’s four-year-old Brecklynn. Back in November 2015, she got sick at her pre-school and went to the pediatrician. Everyone thought is was just a virus. But the doctor took a chest x-ray anyway to rule out pneumonia. The results shocked everyone. There was a tumor in Brecklynn’s lungs….
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When Caroline was a baby, she seemed to have a hard time taking a bottle. Because she had a twin sister, it was easy to spot the differences in development, but no one thought too much about it. Then, just before her first birthday, Caroline began throwing up and losing weight. Doctors thought it was…
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IT’S GIVING TUESDAY, and we hope you will support Team Summer today…especially because all donations* will be matched dollar for dollar up to $5,000!! Can you help us reach our goal? Today, as your contribution doubles in value, remember that every Team Summer gift has double the impact, too! When a gift is given, there are TWO kids with cancer…
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Aliyah has been an amazing Team Summer kid. She’s been battling osteosarcoma for more than two years now, the disease that took her left leg. After she got her Team Summer gift – an adorable puppy she named Chewy… …she went on to give two Team Summer gifts herself – one to 4-year-old Grant who…
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OUR ANNUAL MATCHING FUNDRAISER HAS BEGUN! Dear Friends and Family, Five years ago today, we lost Summer. In some ways, it seems like just yesterday, and in others, it feels like forever. She started this organization when she was just 15 years old battling her own cancer, and I think she’d be proud of where we are…
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