Community Involvement
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation is an American pediatric cancer charity founded by Alexandra "Alex" Scott, who lived in Connecticut and suffered from neuroblastoma. The Foundation was started in 2005 by Alex's parents who wanted to continue the work Alex had done. Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation's mission is to change the lives of children with cancer through funding impactful research, raising awareness, supporting families and empowering everyone to help cure childhood cancer.
The foundation has raised more than $200 million dollars which has helped fund nearly 1,000 cutting edge research projects at 135 institutions. In addition, it has helped create a travel program to help support families of children receiving treatment and develop resources such as SuperSibs! program to help people everywere affected by childhood cancer.
Freedom Hoops is a basketball non profit originated in 2014 out of the Kansas City area. Freedom Hoops is geared towards transforming urban youth's lives through mentorship in the core values of faith, family, and fun.Through basketball and one on one mentorship youth members learn employment skills and build relationships.
Operation Homefront helps build strong, stable, and secure military families so they can thrive in communities they have worked so hard to protect. They serve families of deployed and transitioning service members post 9/11 in addition to wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans. Their programs are primarily targeted to junior and mid-grade enlisted service members