Fundraising
More Than a Club
When most people hear the word “summer camp”, visions of cabins, campfires, and calamine lotion come to mind. Not many think about soccer balls, stadiums, and Spain—but for seven-year-old Mia Kristine Elizondo, that’s exactly what her summer camp experience was like. This past June, Mia attended her local Futbol Club Barcelona (FC [...]
The Driven to Cure Fundraiser
Most nineteen-year-olds are just getting started with their lives, making plans for the future, and living in the moment. But Andrew Lee’s nineteenth year brought him a diagnosis of Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer (HLRCC), a condition so rare it has only been identified in 300 families in the world. It has no known cure. [...]
“You Are Always Enough” Pride T-shirt Fundraiser
Sometimes the world changes us, and sometimes we change the world around us. Natalia Seth started changing her world through surrealistic photo compositions that turned into the wildly successful Instagram account Escaping Youth. Her work has now given her a social media platform to be able to help make things change for others. In honor [...]
Cancer Can’t Kill Love
Meaghan McGoldrick had lost both of her parents to cancer by the time she was 22 years old. Her father John Patrick “Butch” McGoldrick, an ironworker, passed in 2008 from lung cancer caused by his work at Ground Zero, and her mother Joanne died just five years later after a short bout with Leukemia. After she lost her mother, [...]
Changing the World One Lawn (and T-shirt) at a Time
A man, a lawn, and a t-shirt design are working on changing the world. On a fateful day in 2015, Alabama A&M Computer Science major Rodney Smith Jr. was running late for class when he drove past an elderly man struggling to mow his lawn. Seeing how difficult it was for the man to get the job done, Rodney put all thoughts of school [...]