The Results are IN! WOW!

What an end-of-year fundraiser! In donations ranging from $10 – $5,000, your contributions – including the $20,000 matching pool – totaled… …roll of drums… $53,000! This was our best year ever for this fundraiser, and we have all of you to thank!! On behalf of the many kids with cancer who will be helped this year…

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Hadlee, the Rock Star!

We are deep into our most important fundraiser of the year – the Matching Gift Challenge!! And we are pleased to tell you that it’s going really well! A wonderful group of people – listed below – put together a matching pool of $20,000 and challenged our donors to match it. And you all are…

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It’s Giving Tuesday!!

Dear Friends and Family, It’s GIVING TUESDAY, and we hope you will choose Team Summer to support!! We are growing and need you now more than ever! Our Team Summer kids – battling cancer themselves – have touched the lives of kids with cancer in 27 states!! All that purple means we are working hard…

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Bria’s One-of-a-Kind Surprise!

Our end-of-year Matching Gift Fundraiser is well underway! We are happy to report that, so far, we are about a third of the way to our matching pool goal of $20,000! DONATE HERE TODAY!  Here’s a reminder of why the success of this fundraiser is so important. It’s all about kids like Bria who have…

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Celebrating Summer!

Dear Friends and Family, Eleven was always a special number for Summer. Whenever a clock hit 11:11, she would stop and tell everyone to make a wish. So it seemed fittingly ironic that she died on 11/11. And now it’s been 11 years to the day since we lost her. In keeping with this bittersweet…

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SUCCESS!!!

We have fantastic news! We reached our Team Summer Challenge Team Goal of $30,000! And then some!!! Just in the nick of time, as the Challenge ends today. We are so proud of everyone who participated and grateful for everyone who donated! We can’t thank you enough for your help in funding this important mission!…

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Our Annual Matching Challenge Has Begun!

A message from Lynne Dale, Summer’s mom: Ten years ago, we lost Summer. It’s hard for me to believe that a decade has passed, because my memory of her is still so vivid.  When she died, the emotional pain was intense. I remember thinking that, certainly, after one year, things will get easier. Or maybe…

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A Special Team Summer Fundraiser

From Lynne Dale, Summer’s mom: It’s hard enough to be a kid with cancer, but to be a kid with cancer in a war zone raises the dangers of childhood cancer to a whole new level. In honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Team Summer is today launching a very special fundraiser. We have teamed…

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It’s Giving Tuesday!

It’s GIVING Tuesday, and we hope you will choose Team Summer to support!! This is an exciting time at Team Summer, and we need our donors now more than ever. We’ll fill you in on the latest happenings, but first we want to tell you about an amazing group of Team Summer supporters – listed at the bottom of this post!…

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We Did It!

So happy to tell you that the 2021 Purple Hair Challenge was a BIG success!! Dozens of brave souls agreed to raise money for Team Summer during the month of May…with the promise to turn their hair purple in June! (Purple was Summer’s favorite color.) Together, they raised $41,636!!! How awesome is that?? And here’s…

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