Success!!

Dear All, We are so pleased to share the success of the Annual Matching Challenge! We are continually in awe of the generosity of our donors. You all are really something!  You might recall that we had a matching pool of $20,000 and challenged you to match it. You all blew that goal out of…

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Matching Challenge Update

The Final Stretch: We are $5,000 away from unlocking our full match! Can you help? “Only another kid with cancer can understand what it’s like to be a kid with cancer.” — Summer Dale (1996-2012) It was Summer’s dream that no child with cancer ever feel alone. The organization she founded, Team Summer, connects kids…

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Happy Birthday, Summer!

Dear Family and Friends, Today would have been Summer’s 27th birthday. For me, this day has always been an emotionally intense one. There is no preparing for it; it just hits me hard. Yet, there is also joy. I love remembering her wacky ways and her outrageous sense of humor. She could always make me…

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Team Summer Goes Virtual!

TEAM SUMMER IS ADAPTING! We will not let a virus stop us!! COVID-19 has affected all of us in so many ways. As you might imagine, adapting to a new normal at Team Summer has been especially challenging. Chemotherapy is designed to suppress our kids’ immune systems, making them among the most susceptible to the virus….

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Atlanta Fox 5 Story about Team Summer!

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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DVR ALERT: Upcoming News Story about Team Summer!

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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We Are So Proud of Maddie!!

Before we tell you the very cool thing Maddie did, we want to make sure you know what she has done already! We met Maddie when she was 14 years old and battling Ewing’s sarcoma. Team Summer kid Kayla gave her (and all her friends!) a limo ride to her eighth grade dance! And ever since…

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Happy Birthday, Sarah!

Our very first ever Team Summer gift recipient has turned 16! When Summer Dale met Sarah, she was only 11 years old, dealing with her second round of cancer – the first when she was just 8 years old. In the cancer clinic waiting room, Sarah had come up to Summer and asked to borrow…

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2015: What a Year!

Dear Friends of Team Summer, As this year comes to a close, all of us at Team Summer feel an enormous sense of gratitude. It has been our honor to carry on the legacy of Summer Dale, who found her purpose in life helping other kids with cancer. We could not do what we do…

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Three-Year Anniversary

Three years ago today, we lost the founder of Team Summer to cancer. Summer Dale was only 16 years old when she left behind an incredible legacy. During the year she battled a rare sarcoma, she realized that kids with cancer need each other for mutual help and support. She found that they were the…

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