Help us in our fight against childhood cancer!

Natalie Grace, our amazing 5-year-old daughter wasiagnosed with high-risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia on August 16, 2012 (just before her third birthday). It's been a long road but fortunately we are one of the lucky ones who can officially say that our daughter is a survivor because as of November 26, 2014 our sweet girl received her verlast dose of chemo and is now considered cancer FREE!


However, too many children do not share Natalie's same good fortune and because of that our family is relentless in the fight against childhood cancer. In addition to raisingawareness whenever we can, in April of 2013 (Natalie was still in treatment) we launched a fundraisingcampaign called, Will You Send Us a Dollar, with the simple goal of raising funds to help support childhood cancer research. Here's what I did...I simply had a friend take a photo of Natalie and myself holding a sign asking this very question, then posted that picture onto Natalie's Facebook page (Infinite Love for Natalie Grace). With a P.O. Box ready to go, and a website (www.WillYouSendUsADollar.com)…our campaign took off running! My goal was to raise $50,000 by Natalie's then 4th birthday and instead we ended up raising $110,000 thanks to so many of YOU! Naturally in April of 2014 I decided to do the very same thing, only this time I upped our goal to $150,000 by Natalie's 5th birthday. Once again you all stepped up to help and we ended up raising $164,000! Well, this year our goal is even bigger!! We want to raise $200,000 for childhood cancerresearch by Natalie's 6th birthday on September 28th, 2015. Fun fact: Did you know that September is also childhood cancer awareness month and that our color is GOLD?


The beauty of our fundraising is that 100% of the proceeds that we raise goes to The Truth 365 where in turn, 100% of what I give them goes to help fund childhood cancer research. I take nothing out on my end, nor do they! In fact, with our past two fundraisers we actually helped to fund NINE childhood cancerresearch grants! For more information on the specific grants that we helped to fund, please visit our blog at www.InfiniteLoveForNatalieGrace.com.


Until Natalie was diagnosed almost 3 years ago (hard to believe), we were completely in the dark in regards to the cold, hard facts such as childhood cancer being the NUMBER ONE disease killer of our kids in the U.S. (actually in many countries), and that every day almost 40 children are diagnosed with some form of cancer, and in that same day to day, 7 children lose their battles to cancer….each and every single day! Other childhood cancer truths? How about that our government, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), only allocates 4% of it'sresearch dollars to fund specificallychildhood cancerresearch while the remaining 96% goes to more profitable adult cancers. There are over 40,000 children in the U.S. alone who are currently battling childhood cancer. They are being slowly tortured not only by their often growing symptoms, but by the very poisonous drugs that are meant to save them. We need better medications for our kids, better ways of treating them…without this first we'll never find that cure.


Iknow that this t-shirt may not be for everyone, but it represents how I feel about childhood cancer pretty much all of the time! The #MoreThan4hashtag that you see on the back was created by the childhood cancer community as a way to unite and use our voices to say that 4% of funding is not enough for our kids.
Thanks for your support everyone, F___ childhood cancer and lets tell the world that our children deserve #MoreThan4!