I sit here on the eve of my Nnamdi baby’s passing in reflection of where my grief journey has led me. Karaoke5K was born out of my incessant desire to keep Nnamdi’s memory ALIVE. I wanted to talk about him all the time, and share his experiences and personality with anyone who wanted to hear it. I told my husband …
GOLD: An Evening to Beat Childhood Cancer 2019 – The Recap
Wow. What an evening. Our second annual Gold: An Evening to Beat Childhood Cancer was once again sponsored by CrossCountry Mortgage (their third year in a row title sponsoring one of our events). HGTV’s Nicole Curtis rocked the stage as our MC. Her passion for helping kids beat cancer is so real. Her foreman, Bobby Prothero, lost his daughter Tessa …
A Round for Rylee Recap
FRIDAY OCTOBER 5TH. It was raining all week, and supposed to rain the whole day. Luckily our little angel had other plans. We had been planning for this day for months now. Eager for it to come, yet still heartbreaking that we weren’t able to have Rylee with us. We knew when Rylee passed away we wanted everyone to remember …
Karaoke 5k (the recap)
I reached out to Beat Nb in April of this year. It’s an organization that I had been following here and there for some time while my son Nnamdi was alive. Nnamdi passed away on October 31st of last year after battling the disease for 18 months. He was two. By April of 2018, I was physically and emotionally exhausted …
A Hole in One for Harlow – Evansville, WI
A Hole In One for Harlow, presented by our naming sponsor, Retirement Income Strategies, held its inaugural golf outing on September 8, 2018 at the Evansville Country Club in Evansville WI. After a week of torrential downpours and concerns over continued rain on Saturday, the skies parted and the sun shone with a light breeze while twenty teams of golfers ranging from amateurs …
Gold: An Evening to Beat Childhood Cancer (Tampa, 2018)
It was a beautiful and perfect evening. Presented by CrossCountry Mortgage, Inc, with incredible support from the Ryan Callahan Foundation, Papa Johns, and the 13 Ugly Men (among many others), Beat Nb’s Gold: An Evening to Beat Childhood Cancer raised over $265,000 on Sept 8 at Armature Works in Tampa. 350+ caring, passionate people came together to celebrate how we …
Running 200 miles for Lola
Team LolaA couple weeks ago some of our friends and family came together to support neuroblastoma research and trials in the craziest way yet! Together we RAN 200 MILES! What an experience it was! Our team of 12 raised over $14,000 to fight for children with the neuroblastoma, the beast that took our precious Lola Mae from us two years …
Touch a Truck X – San Diego
This was our first year hosting Touch A Truck (TAT) in July – maybe our last year, too. We had excellent San Diego weather up until the day before when temperatures skyrocketed. The brave families who made it out of their air conditioned homes and onto the hot asphalt are commended for their efforts! We love you parents and your …
Hoops for Lives
On June 24th in San Diego, the Hoops for Lives 3 on 3 basketball tournament was a great success – raising over $10,000! It’s one of our favorite types of events – organized out of the heart and passion of kids: specifically, students Zachary Robinson, Julia Maurer, Spencer Reckles, Reese Reckles and Ellery Robinson. 12 year old Zachary wanted to do …
Give Day Tampa Bay: the Insta-llation
What a blast! On Tuesday May 1st, Give Day Tampa Bay, we featured our pop-up art installation at Armature Works in Tampa.Three separate kid-themed scenes made up the Instagrammable pop-up, with pro photographers at each scene. For any donation, we’d snap your photo and email it to you on the spot.The kite scene was created by Tallahassee muralist Matt Shanaghan. …