Each team created a version of this video, are doing various activities during games in September to raise awareness and funding for childhood cancer.
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Will Ferrell hates cancer — and he’ll play video games on Twitch to prove it
Actor Will Ferrell, who starred in films like Anchorman and Elf, is asking the gaming community to help him raise at least $375,000 as part of an IndieGogo crowdfunding campaign to benefit non-profit organizations Cancer for College and DonateGames. If the project reaches its goal, Ferrell promises to spend Oct. 26 playing video games on Twitch. The event will feature special items for people who donate, like a tube of “Will Ferrell’s SuperMegaUVBlastMax: Gamer’s Sunscreen.” And everyone who contributes is entered into a sweepstakes to travel to San Francisco and take on Ferrell in a battle of gaming skill. You can get all of the details at WillFerrellHatesCancer.org.
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4 suburban students’ film on toddler with cancer headed to NYC
“It’s All About M.E.” tells the story of 2-year-old Matthew Erickson’s courageous battle with cancer. It will be screened at AMC Empire Theaters in Times Square.
Auburn student with cancer chooses to experience life ‘before I pass away.’
“What I want to do with my life is continue it,” Kayla said.
“I don’t know how long they can maintain my cancer,” she said. “I don’t know if it is a year, three years or nine. But I have hopes and dreams and things I want to accomplish.”
For now she’s living her dream as a college student — only now with a plan to be a nurse practitioner treating childhood cancer.
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Kayla’s other dream right now is to raise money and awareness for childhood cancer. In her first fund-raising venture she raised $15,000 for research. She’s now shooting for $400,000.
AJ Hawk Helping Peaditric Cancer Patients
“My hair was long and ratty and it looked terrible, and I just got sick of trying to take care of it and trying to make it look decent,” he told the crowd at Hawk’s Mane Event, the fundraiser he held at his house on June 28 to benefit his foundation for children with cancer. “I was just going to chop it off and show up the next day at football and not say anything.
“My wife, being the smart lady she is, said, ‘Nah, we have to do something with it.’ I was just going to send it off to Wigs for Kids and hopefully put it toward making a wig for a kid going through chemo. [But] we decided to start our own thing.”
Their “own thing” was Hawk’s Locks for Kids, which provides supporting patient care of women and children throughout the Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center at the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. The main goal of the charity has been to provide wigs for children who have lost their hair due to their battle with cancer.
Manassas brewery raises a glass and awareness for neuroblastoma
MANASSAS, Va. – A Virginia family has come up with a special way to honor their son. They’re working with other children diagnosed with the same kind of cancer he had, and their unique approach has them raising a glass.
Jeremy Meyers brews beer, but the recipe is all heart. He and his wife, Sarah, founded Bad Wolf Brewing Company in Manassas because they love craft beer, too. The atmosphere at their brewery is so comfortable that the first time Mickey Johnson came in as a customer, he told the Meyers about his son Cody, who died of cancer when he was just 6 years old.
Profits from the sale of the beer will go toward the Cody’s Crew Foundation to fund childhood cancer research.