Operation: GiggleBoxes. Meet the Sabin Family
Meet the Sabin Family Nick, the oldest son, played for the Shelton Travel Baseball in our Step to the Plate youth baseball tournament back in September. Nick and his family went above and beyond for our event and fundraised on his own. He raised $555!!!! We wanted Nick to know EXACTLY where the money he […]
LivFree Story Time with Miss Connecticut 2019
LivFree Story Time with Miss Connecticut 2019 We created LivFree Story Time as an online activity for our LivFree families. We enlisted the help of these people to provide a cute and fun experience for our cancer families. Jilian Duffy, Miss Connecticut 2019 Melissa Simoni of Camp Rising Sun Jim McCaffrey of Infinite Love for […]
Giggle boxes
Gift cards + Subscription This week’s highlight would be the care packages or the “Giggle boxes” we are sending to 28 families with children in active treatment. Big thanks to our partners Circle of Care and Colin’s Crew. We would also like to thank our friends from Evolve Salon Systems for the hand sanitizers and […]
Gift cards + Subscription
Gift cards + Subscription LivFree teamed up with Tommy Fund for Childhood Cancer and Colin’s Crew with the goal to help pediatric cancer families navigate through the current pandemic by providing gift cards for food or supplies and subscriptions to their favorite online streaming services. We have helped 93 families in total and provided them […]
We are with you to infinity and beyond
We are with you to infinity and beyond! We teamed with other pediatric cancer organizations, dressed up in costume and brought smiles to the kids in treatment at Yale!! Huge shout out to The Digital Chameleon, LLC for donating the great signs!! Colin’s Crew SunshineKids South Windsor Camp Rising Sun Ronald McDonald House of CT Tommy […]
Happy Valentine’s day
Happy Valentine’s Day Happy Valentine’s day from us to you! A huge thank you to the children of St. Theresa’s church in Trumbull for these beautiful valentines. We fight cancer with smiles, you help us create those smiles. 🎗💕
Connecticut Dance Conservatory
Wow! We cannot thank the Connecticut Dance Conservatory enough for their support. Yesterday they had their company show where their dancers had two incredible performances and donated proceeds to our mission of fighting pediatric cancer with smiles. These young dancers did such an amazing job and should be extremely proud of themselves. 🤗 To Dina […]
Samyra’s Christmas gift
Nonprofit grants West Haven girl battling cancer wish to see father while on active duty WEST HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A little girl from West Haven, who is battling cancer, had one wish last month: to see her father for the holidays. Just sitting up and smiling did not seem possible for Samyra Mills two […]
Micalizzi’s Italian Ice
One of our favorite things ever is when we deliver MICALIZZI’S ITALIAN ICE to the children’s unit at Yale New Haven Hospital. The smiles on the kids faces can be so bright but the doctors and nurses enjoy it just as much. We love being able to provide the simple little gesture to help brighten […]
Manny Stepped to the Plate
When we sat down with Manny to have lunch and discuss the potential for partnership we knew we needed a slogan for our tournament. After a contest, the slogan became “step to the plate for childhood cancer”. If we are being honest, we didn’t have the participation that we expected. Undeterred, Manny decided that if […]
