BE CHILD CANCER AWARE

september is childhood cancer awareness month

not all ribbons are pink

childhood cancer's ribbon is GOLD

My Sweet Calli,

is one of 6

 Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation 

CORD HEROES

Calli had a Primary Spinal Cord Tumor

basically that means that her cancer originated 

IN her spinal cord, 

verses traveling there from another cancer somewhere else in the body...

Calli had a very rare and explosively aggressive brain cancer in her spinal cord

In case you were not aware, the spinal cord is considered part of the brain!

The ALSF CORD Fund

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation has partnered with the CORD Foundation & joined forces to make an even bigger difference for children with spinal cord tumors! 

 ALSF CORD Heroes

Meet Brian

Meet Callahan

Meet Kennedy

Meet Malia

Meet Nichole

Meet Wyatt

Did you know that you can host a lemonade stand in Calli's memory?

At any time during the year, you can host a lemonade stand event at work, at your school, in your community or just choose to donate to Calli's CORD FUND  Any & all monies raised, will go specifically to Calli's CORD Hero FUND!  

While you cannot help Calli anymore :(

You CAN still help other children struggling with Spinal cord/Brain Cancer!  

Calli really wanted to help the other kids with cancer, 

she wanted her life to matter, to make a difference.  

It is really simple to get started!  

To read more about the ALSF CORD FUND click on the link below!

 To read more about our Hero Calli (Callahan), see link below! 

CALLAHAN DERSTINE ALSF CORD HERO

 To make a donation to Calli's CORD FUND, see this link!

DONATE TO CALLI'S CORD FUND 

 To host a stand, or have a pajama party at school, or create your own FUNdraising event in Calli's memory, see link below!

HOST or CREATE A CORD FUND EVENT IN CALLI'S MEMORY

PLEASE be sure to choose Callahan Derstine (see above) as your Cord Hero when making a contribution or when choosing to host a stand or create another event.

Another way that you can help make a difference is to attend the 

hand-bell concert below- 

honoring the memory of three local 

child-brain-cancer heroes, 

including Calli!  

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Want to smash someone in the face with a whipped cream pie???

I DID- I smashed myself!

Mike wanted me to do it again!

I am SURE that he wanted to smash my face :)

I look silly , I am in my pj's!  HA HA

I do not care :P

It is not about me, 

This is about our children!!!

I did it for Calli & challenged some friends to do it

Please have fun doing this & take pictures & a video 

and use the hashtag #whippingchildhoodcancer or #whippingchildhoodcancerchallenge 

& make a donation to the CORD FUND 

or to THE CHRIS COURT FOUNDATION  

or to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Oncology Donation

There are SO many orginizations that fund CHILDHOOD CANCER RESEARCH!  Research raises awareness, awareness raises dollars, dollars raise funds for cures geared specifically for children!

Lets make a difference in the war against childhood cancer
#GOGOLD