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OUR MISSION

Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance provides emotional, educational and practical support to families of children with cancer.

Adopt A Family

15000

822

Donate

Fun Walk

230000

235574

Donate

School Initiative

3000

2111

Donate

Parking Fund

15000

12776

Donate

Margarita Taste Off

70000

117128

Donate

Lights of Courage

400000

76666

Donate

Break a Clay for Candlelighters

50000

73625

Donate

Thanks to you, in 2021 we raised more than $1.5 million dollars! Last year your support provided:

Families Served 4,320

Hours of Support 7,893

Parking Validations 8,462

Family Members Adopted 1,205

UPCOMING EVENTS

27 Oct 2022
Thursday 5:30 PM-10:00 PM
Lights of Courage
Join us as Candlelighters honors childhood cancer heroes who are lights of courage in our community.
15 Apr 2023
Saturday 1:00 PM-5:30 PM
Margarita Taste Off
Hosted by Candlelighters Young Professionals | Presented by Don Julio | Guests sip, sample and vote for their favorite margaritas!

🎗️ It’s the last day of childhood cancer aw

🎗️ It’s the last day of childhood cancer awareness month, but childhood cancer isn’t stopping. 🎗️

Please continue to support childhood cancer charities year round by liking and sharing about their work with families! ✨

To all of our Candlelighters families, we love you and are here for you any day and every day. 💛 We hope to continue to grow our efforts to support the thousands of families right here in the Houston area who need us.

Thank you to our amazing sponsors at First Horizon

Thank you to our amazing sponsors at First Horizon Bank for sponsoring our Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Candlelighters Cares efforts and delivering delicious breakfast tacos to the hardworking nurses, doctors, and staff at Texas Children's Hospital, MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital, and Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital!!

Candlelighters Cares is a program that serves the staff at our partner hospitals as a way to say THANK YOU for taking such great care of childhood cancer families! 🎗 These medical professionals show up day in and day out and their positive spirit makes a profound impact on a cancer family's journey. We 💛 our partner hospitals!

If your company is interested in sponsoring Candlelighters Cares, please comment below or send us a message!

Candlelighters had a wonderful afternoon this mont

Candlelighters had a wonderful afternoon this month partnering with MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital & @flemingssteakhouse to serve childhood cancer families! 💛

In an effort to help fellow childhood cancer parents connect with each other and have some meaningful recharging time to themselves, Fleming’s opened their restaurant early so Candlelighters families could have the whole place to themselves! They provided a delectable lunch including a beautiful salad, mouth watering filet mignon, and savory sides - we’re still talking about how amazing the steak was! They also surprised everyone at the end of the meal with a decadent ice cream bar 🥰

Thank you to the staff at MD Anderson for helping plan this event, the staff at Fleming’s who volunteered their time, talents, and resources, and the volunteers who helped us pull off this heartwarming event! ✨

We were so excited to meet new families, see ‘veteran’ families, and learn more about each of your journeys. 🎗️ Thank you for spending the afternoon with us!

75% of the way there!! We've ALMOST hit our goal t

75% of the way there!! We've ALMOST hit our goal to support our Camp CLIFF Day Camp & Virtual Camp! CAN WE GET TO 100%?! We just need ONE of the following:

🎗 2 Gold Sponsors
🥈3 Silver Sponsors
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦6 Family Sponsors
🐎12 Activity Sponsors
OR 🥰 24 Camper Sponsors

CAN WE DO IT?! Please help us SPREAD THE WORD by SHARING THIS POST and/or visit the LINK IN OUR BIO!

✨ MEET US MONDAY! ✨ Please help us give a war

✨ MEET US MONDAY! ✨

Please help us give a warm welcome to Candlelighters' new Development Director, Shayna Dhalson!

Shayna started with Candlelighters in July of this year - her first official day with us was Summer Surprises! - and has enjoyed meeting our wonderful volunteers, families, and staff!

Shayna shared with us: “I’m grateful to be here. Everyone is so welcoming and passionate about serving these children and their families. It’s a great cause and I’m very much looking forward to experiencing all the events and programs we have throughout the year for the first time. I’m not usually one to get emotional, but this job and mission have left me teary eyed multiple times.”

Outside of the office, Shayna spends time with her husband, David, and two children, Evelyn and Richard. She loves the outdoors, exploring the Houston food scene, and getting together with friends!

She looks forward to meeting everyone in person and growing our fundraising efforts to serve our deserving families. Help me welcome Shayna in the comments!

📸: Thank you to Bri Costello Photography for our beautiful headshots!

🎗🎁 It’s September 25th… that means ONLY

🎗🎁 It’s September 25th… that means ONLY 3 MONTHS UNTIL CHRISTMAS! 🎁🎗

Fall is just beginning, but at Candlelighters we are already gearing up for the holidays! Now is the time to join us in our mission to bring hope and joy to hundreds of childhood cancer families through our annual Holiday Adopt-A-Family program!🎄

Our Adopt-A-Family program serves families not only in financial need, but also families in emotional need. Candlelighters recognizes that the diagnosis of childhood cancer affects the entire family, so we also serve siblings and parents through this program. Sponsors will be provided a family’s specific Wish List and will get to meet the family they’re serving in person when they deliver gifts! 💛

🎅 To sponsor a Candlelighters family means you shop for, wrap presents for, and deliver holiday gifts to a Candlelighters family - to sign up to sponsor, please visit: http://tiny.cc/2022aaf

☃️ If you are unable to purchase and physically deliver gifts, but would like to make a monetary donation to the Adopt-A-Family program, Candlelighters will, through your donation, purchase gifts for families! Please visit http://tiny.cc/givetoAAF to make a donation online or donate through this post!

✨ 'Tis the season to be the reason that a cancer family has big smiles for the holidays! ✨

🎗️ DID YOU KNOW 🎗️ It’s been studied

🎗️ DID YOU KNOW 🎗️

It’s been studied and proven that treating the emotional and psychosocial needs of EVERY family member of a child diagnosed with cancer is crucial to the family’s future, no matter the treatment outcome.

Candlelighters is here for your family 💛

🤩 With excitement, gratitude, and hope renewed

🤩 With excitement, gratitude, and hope renewed ✨ our Candlelighters Parent Consultants serving Texas Children’s Hospital pediatric oncology patients and their families ARE BACK!! 🎗️ After almost exactly 2.5 years working remotely to serve families, Linda, Opal, and Maria (all fellow cancer moms!) will be available at TCH on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, providing families in the hospital with practical needs like parking, and much-needed emotional support.

If you see them, give them a big hug, elbow tap, or high five and know they’re smiling ear to ear under their masks!! We are so happy to be reunited with families and continue our mission of meeting families where they are during their childhood cancer journey and walking alongside them every step of the way. 💛

This year, Candlelighters is taking our annual fam

This year, Candlelighters is taking our annual family camp, Camp CLIFF, and offering BOTH a Day Camp AND Virtual Camp options!! TWO CAMPS means serving MORE cancer families, and we have a BIG GOAL!! Will you HELP US "LIGHT THE WAY" BACK TO CAMP?! 🌲🌤🏕

That's right, we're taking families back in-person to the amazing Camp For All facilities, but we are also offering our fun-filled camper boxes again! After seeing the joy-filled, smiling photos of childhood cancer patients participating in camp from the hospital, we knew we had to offer a virtual camp again for our more medically fragile families. 💛🎗

We will need DOUBLE the support this year as we serve both our in-person and virtual groups to make this camp experience the BEST YET! Campers who join us in-person will have the opportunity to experience horseback riding, zip lining, rock climbing, fishing, and more, all completely barrier-free at Camp For All! 🐴
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Donate here on Facebook (100% comes back to Candlelighters!) OR through the link in the comments to help us get to our $30,000 fundraising goal for Camp CLIFF - so far, we've reached 45% of our goal! BUT WE STILL HAVE A LOT TO GO! Every dollar donated helps childhood cancer patients, along with their siblings and parents, enjoy a "weekend without cancer."

Thank you to our Camp CLIFF Sponsors who have signed on so far:
First Horizon Bank
Geodis
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices

There’s still room for more! Who’s next?!! EVERY donation counts! As we raise more money, the lantern will light up, so stay tuned for the next update! How much can we light up tonight?!

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Candlelighters supports childhood cancer families in our continuing mission.

Newsletter Vol. 25 Spring 2019
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