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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Dear Friends and Family, It’s GIVING Tuesday, and we hope you will choose Team Summer to support!! The pandemic has blocked many of our normal fundraising efforts, and we need you now more than ever to keep this wonderful organization going! A group of amazing Team Summer supporters – listed at the bottom of this post! – have put together…
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Dear Friends and Family, Eight years ago today we lost Summer. Oh, how I miss her! Even the briefest flash of memory – her voice, her smile – can still bring me to my knees. Yet, I can’t tell you what a comfort it is to know her spirit lives on through our Team Summer…
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We are so thrilled to tell you that the Purple Hair Challenge was an unbelievable, resounding success!! The crazy campaign raised more than $60,000 for Team Summer!!! The fundraiser is called the Purple Hair Challenge because participants pledge to solicit donations in return for dyeing their hair purple. And on a recent Sunday afternoon, dozens…
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Summer was a sophomore at Riverwood International Charter School in Sandy Springs, GA before cancer took her from us. The students who now populate those halls never met her. And yet every year – this makes six! – they band together to create and sell their artwork to benefit Team Summer! Earlier this month, art…
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It started with a business class at Georgia State University. The assignment was to raise money for a non-profit. The lesson was about teamwork, planning, and results. Fortunately for Team Summer, Raquel Del Carmen was on one of the teams and recommended Team Summer as the charity for their group. We are happy to tell…
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Before we tell you what Phoebe Cohoon did, we have to tell who she is. Phoebe was one of Summer’s amazing nurses at MD Anderson, one of her absolute favorites. Maybe you can tell from Phoebe’s picture that this girl is all kinds of crazy fun! Life just pours out of her! The day Summer…
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When most kids turn 19, they are thinking about themselves – the party they want, the gifts they might get. But not Natasha Cooper! As she approached her 19th birthday, the senior in high school asked her family and friends to donate to Team Summer instead of buying her gifts. How amazing is that?? She…
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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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