New 2014 Crush Kids' Cancer Ornaments Are Here!

What better way to shop on this Cyber Monday than to purchase this new 2014 Crush Kids' Cancer ornament? 

A portion of the proceeds is donated to Crush Kids' Cancer: David Archuleta's Angels.

Go HERE to purchase! 

Happy Holidays!

Crush Kids' Cancer: David Archuleta's Angels 2014 Summer Fundraising Challenge

In the past, Stand Up 2 Cancer would a 2-week long summer fundraising challenge right before their televised broadcast. This year, although SU2C will be doing their broadcast on September 5, 2014, they are not hosting a fundraising challenge like years past.

So, I thought, just because SU2C isn't doing a challenge, that doesn't mean Crush Kids' Cancer can't!

Starting today, August 22, until Stand Up 2 Cancer's broadcast on September 5, Crush Kids' Cancer: David Archuleta's Angels will be doing our own fundraising challenge! Our goal is to raise as much money as we can for Crush Kids' Cancer within these two weeks!

To donate, click the big, orange DONATE button on the right, then click the red DONATE NOW button on our team page!

We want to see those numbers going up over the next 2 weeks, so please donate! No amount is too small and all of the proceeds go to Stand Up 2 Cancer to help find a cure! If you are unable to donate, we always appreciate spreading the word! Share with your friends and families, on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, etc!

Twitter Trending Party + Thunderclap

On Thursday, September 4, 2014, we want to trend on Twitter just like we did 2 years ago!

Trend: SU2C Crush Kids Cancer

Time: 9pm EST

Be sure to participate in our Thunderclap as well! We need at least 100 participants by September 2nd in order for our Thunderclap to happen! If you participate with Twitter, the tweets will be sent out on September 4th at 9pm EST during our trending party!

Crush Kids' Cancer's summer fundraising challenge starts... NOW!

An Important Mission for Go-Getters!

Here's a message from Crush Kids' Cancer team captain PecanPie about a special mission for all of you go-getters!

A message from Stand Up 2 Cancer team captain Pecan Pie of team - Crush Kids' Cancer - David Archuleta's Angels:

Greetings Survivors, Supporters, Go-Getters! I have an extra-special "mission" for the next 10 people who can be in NYC by 7:45am Wed, March 19. SU2C is launching a campaign, called “The Baton Pass,” with a live segment on Good Morning America in Times Square on Wednesday, March 19th. The survivors/advocates will be passing a special relay baton with a button that’s pressed to log each time the baton changes hands. For each pass of the baton, Siemens will donate one dollar to SU2C, up to $1 million. - Participants will need to be on-site outside GMA’s Times Square studio at 7:45 a.m. - Segment will be filmed around 8:30 a.m. - SU2C will provide SU2C and “The Baton Pass” t-shirts for survivors/advocates to wear - Participants should be finished and free to go by 9:30 a.m. Shoot me a message here at SU2C or at my twitter @pecanpie by Thursday if you can make it. Peace out!

Tyler's Birthday Parade in Rhode Island

Credit to Bobby Rotondo

Today, March 6, 2014, is Tyler Seddon's 7th birthday. Tyler is a little boy from Rhode Island who is battling leukemia for a second time. He's known to love firefighters and policemen and wants to be both a firefighter and a policeman when he grows up.

A few weeks ago, I heard about Tyler's story on my local Boston news which spread the word about Tyler's aunt and mother's hopes to gather birthday cards from policemen and firefighters for Tyler. Upon learning this, I immediately thought of my cousin, Bobby, who is a firefighter for the Lynn Fire Department in Massachusetts. I contacted Bobby and shared with him Tyler's story and he was kind enough to plan on sending Tyler some birthday cards from his station.

What I didn't know, was that there was a parade being held for Tyler on his birthday in Rhode Island. Bobby and two others from his station attended the parade, along with 185 police cars, 30 fire engines and 12 motorcycles. Burillville, RI law enforcement made Tyler Chief of Police for the day and he received a special uniform and badge at a swearing-in ceremony. It was noted that Tyler also received almost 800 birthday cards and his family is overwhelmed with the wonderful response.

Credit to Bobby Rotondo

Visit Tyler Troops to learn more and don't forget to crush kids' cancer!

2013 David Archuleta Christmas/Birthday Project

As many of you may remember, last year around this time, The Kids' Chapter held our David Archuleta Christmas/Birthday Project, selling ornaments with proceeds going to Crush Kids' Cancer: David Archuleta's Angels as our Christmas and Birthday gift to David.

This year, we're at it again with a newly designed ornament made by The Kids' Chapter team member Lynsey!

From now (Nov 1) to the end of the year (Dec 31), you have the chance to purchase this new ornament and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to Crush Kids' Cancer as our Christmas/Birthday gift to David!

The ornament is $13.95 and will hang nicely on every Archie's Christmas tree, or could be a great stocking stuffer! If you do not celebrate Christmas but still want to be a part of this project, you can always purchase an ornament and give it to someone you know will love it, or donate it to a local hospital, etc.

Like last year, after this project concludes, we will be letting David know how many ornaments sold and how much was raised for Crush Kids' Cancer!

Last year's project was a success, let's make this year's project an even bigger success! 

You can go HERE to purchase our new Crush Kids' Cancer ornament!

New Years Resolutions from The Kids' Chapter team

Now that we are three months into the New Year, are you still keeping up with your New Years Resolutions? Some Crush Kids Cancer team members share their personal new years resolutions here, and share their overall resolution of continuing to crush kids cancer throughout 2013!

Crush Kids' Cancer 2013 Calendars + Ornaments Update!

With just one month left of 2012, we're wrapping up what has been a great year (well, since June) for Crush Kids' Cancer and The Kids' Chapter! Now it's almost time to welcome 2013 with a Crush Kids' Cancer calendar!

Not only do a portion of the proceeds from the calendars go to Crush Kids' Cancer, but each month holds a different quote or song lyric from David!

You can go HERE to purchase a calendar and also view all of the calendar pages!


Also, there's only one month left of our David Archuleta Christmas/Birthday Project!

33 ornaments have sold in the month of November! That's more than one ornament each day! Thanks everyone! I'm sure David will love to know how many sold and how much was raised as his Christmas/Birthday gift!

You can go HERE to learn more about this project and how to purchase a special Crush Kids' Cancer ornament.

Our David Archuleta Christmas/Birthday Project

With the holidays and David Archuleta's birthday nearing, The Kids' Chapter is starting our Christmas/Birthday Project!

Starting now until the end of the year, you have the chance to purchase this special Crush Kids' Cancer ornament! A portion of the proceeds from this ornament will be donated to Crush Kids' Cancer as our Christmas and Birthday present to David this year!

The ornament is $12 and will hang nicely on every Archie's Christmas tree, or could be a great stocking stuffer! If you do not celebrate Christmas but still want to be a part of this project, you can always purchase an ornament and give it to someone you know will love it, or donate it to a local hospital, etc.

Project starts Nov 1 until Dec 31, 2012, and at the end we will be letting David know how many ornaments sold and how much was raised for Crush Kids' Cancer! We know David will love this Christmas/Birthday present from all of his fans this year!

You can go HERE to purchase a Crush Kids' Cancer ornament.

It's the season of giving (and celebrating David's birthday) and The Kids' Chapter is excited for this new end-of-the-year, holiday project!

Also be sure to check out these other new Crush Kids' Cancer products, 

all great gifts for the holiday season!

A Heartfelt Message from Team Captain PecanPie

Hi Crush Kids’ Cancer team,

I wanted to take a pause to be a little serious and let you know how much each and every one of you is recognized and what this team truly means. Many of you have sent messages to let me and/or David know how a diagnosis of cancer is so very personal to you. I want the members of the team to know that your voice is heard, your feelings are known, and that each and every team member counts in this fight. I do know what it’s like to be given a cancer diagnosis only to learn that there are some in whom you previously might have entrusted your life and yet who are surprisingly indifferent to your potential mortality. I do know what it’s like to be a child and watch a loved one go through the horror of a cancer diagnosis and treatment. I haven’t seen patients directly in over five years, but never will I forget the look in a parent’s eyes when I would lay my stethoscope on the silent chest of his/her child who had just passed, and confirm their worst nightmare. The most hideous sound on Earth is the sound of a mother wailing in anguish upon receiving the news that her child has just passed away or that there are no treatment options left. I don’t know how else to describe it except to say, it eviscerates your soul.

Why am I sharing this with all of you some 4 years after starting the team? Because most of you have experienced any number of the cancer stories I’ve described above and it’s part of what unites us all both as a team and as fellow human beings. We get so caught up in the excitement of winning the challenge that sometimes the ugly stories behind the fight get forgotten. That’s so easy to let happen right now while David isn’t here to cheer us on.

Way more important than my understanding, however, is that David understands what it is that you have all endured (or are still battling currently). I realized this early on in the first fundraising challenge 4 years ago. No one in the fanbase knew who I was back then; most of you thought I was just some Archie-smitten teen rather than a middle-aged pediatric oncologist. So, how then, do we explain, a group of 550 strangers banding together within a 2 -week time frame and raising over $30,000 (about half of which was raised in the final 12 hours)?

David, of course, is the only possible explanation - the only common thread. What always amazed me was that while I and other adults may understand and relate to the impact of a cancer diagnosis because we have had the benefit of maturity and of direct personal experience, David understood even as a mere teenager, without ever having endured most of these experiences personally. Moreover, we all somehow knew, that David would “get it”, i.e., that he would have a level of compassion and understanding that sometimes even our closest friends might not be able to muster. We, on this team and in this fanbase, all saw something that the other viewers had missed entirely. We saw that beneath that goofy, dorky teen exterior and that ever-present smile, beat the heart of a human being with a compassion so profound, that it radiated right through the television screen and permeated deep into our own hearts. We didn’t even have to share our own individual cancer battle stories with him to feel that we were heard and understood. What’s more, we all knew, that the only way to thank him was not to give to him directly, but rather to uphold a principle that I suspect is dear to David, and that is common to all our faiths and to all humanity. Simply put, that principle is that if we witness or become aware of the potential for suffering in another, it is our obligation to do whatever we can to alleviate that suffering. This SU2C team became the first of many opportunities to fulfill that shared obligation.

So, for those of you who have been hit hard by the economy, please don’t donate financially to this team and instead consider donating blood, registering for the bone marrow registry, or just remember to do your regular cancer screening. If, however, you think you can comfortably afford to donate even a little to the team and you support the strategy of SU2C as much as I do, then I hope you will do what you can to bring us one step closer to finding successful, tolerable treatments and preventing the suffering that cancer forces so many to endure. The more we raise, the greater the reminder to the world that David is not just a great singer, but a great man to have inspired such a team. Given that we raised over $30,000 with a team half the size and raised about $15,000 in the final 12 hours, I know we can still pull this off.

Thanks again for all of the support,
Pecan Pie

Stand Up 2 Cancer fundraising challenge BEGINs today!

Hi everyone! I'd like to let you all know that Crush Kids' Cancer and The Kids' Chapter will be participating in Stand Up 2 Cancer's latest fundraising challenge! 

As some of you may know, Stand Up 2 Cancer will be having one of their nationwide broadcasts again this year on September 7, and the team that raises the most will be acknowledged during the broadcast!

The challenge starts today, August 16, and ends on August 29. 

Be sure to get your donations in to Crush Kids' Cancer and BEGIN. fundraising! 
(only donations received today until August 29 count for the challenge; any received before or after do not count.) 

Check out David, along with team member Mary Lou Sinclair, during SU2C's broadcast in 2010:

This could happen again (minus David, of course), but only with YOUR help!

While David is away on his mission doing good, you too can do some good by getting involved and helping us CRUSH cancer. 

Also, if anyone has any David memorabilia they'd like to give to be raffled off for donations, please email us and let us know! Signed CDs, tour merchandise, etc would be appreciated! 
We'll be having some raffles going on during the next 2 weeks, so stay tuned!

Another auction is starting! Win a The Other Side of Down Deluxe CD/DVD autographed by David!

EDIT: Auction has ended! Congratulations purplecacruiser on winning the CD and supporting Crush Kids' Cancer!

We're starting another Crush Kids' Cancer auction! Starting today, you have the chance to bid on this The Other Side of Down Deluxe CD/DVD autographed by David Archuleta!

The CD was signed by David during the Mormon Tabernacle Choir shows in 2010. The album includes The Other Side of Down CD + bonus DVD featuring the "Something 'Bout Love" music video, photo shoot behind-the-scenes, interview with David and a photo gallery.

The winning bid will be donated to Crush Kids' Cancer.

Click HERE to start bidding! And be sure to check back often to raise your bid!

Don't miss this chance to get this autographed CD and help us to CRUSH kids' cancer.

Also be sure to go HERE to bid on the sketch of David that's currently up for auction. 

It ends in 2 days!