Branch Management Corporation becomes first Visionary Corporate Partner – Fighting Kids Cancer!
On Thursday December 5, 2024, The Life Ring Foundation team joined Tom & Lisa Branch at Branch Management Corporation off Franklin Road in Roanoke, Virginia to graciously accept the first Visionary level Corporate Partnership for the Fighting Kids Cancer campaign. We are thrilled to announce this major advancement in support, that will help our vision
Fink’s Jewelers hosts Ippolita Jewelry Designer event to benefit Fighting Kids Cancer
Fink’s Jewelers hosts Ippolita Jewelry Designer event to benefit Fighting Kids Cancer On Thursday October 10, 2024, Fink’s Jewelry on Electric Road in Roanoke hosted a private event with Italian Jewelry Designer, Ippolita Rostagno. In addition to viewing the newest fall collection of 2024, invited guests had access to limited one-of-a-kind designs and a personal
Through Thalhimer Gives, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer Establishes Meaningful Partnership with The Life Ring Foundation
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, April 26, 2024 – Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer partnered with The Life Ring Foundation for the first quarter of 2024 through their Thalhimer Gives program, a companywide initiative focused on community involvement and charitable giving. The Life Ring Foundation is an organization dedicated to fighting pediatric cancer, based in Roanoke. For the
The Inaugural, Million Dollar Year for Fighting Kids Cancer in Southwest Virginia. The 2023 Charlotte’s Play Yellow Invitational
When Co-Founders Jessica & Kelly Woolwine launched the Fighting Kids Cancer (FKC) campaign in January 2023, they took on the biggest commitment they, or The Life Ring Foundation, had ever undertaken. However, in their minds, there was no other choice but to tackle this huge goal head on and figure it out every step of
HISTORIC GIFT FROM THE LIFE RING FOUNDATION MARKS CRITICAL BEGINNING OF IMPACT TO CARILION’S NEW PEDIATRIC CANCER UNIT
A $2 million dollar pledge from local nonprofit The Life Ring Foundation marks a milestone in its Fighting Kids Cancer campaign and pediatric hematology and oncology in Southwest Virginia. ROANOKE, October 5, 2023 – The Life Ring Foundation today announced a $2 million gift to Carilion Children’s, Southwest Virginia’s local Children’s Miracle Network hospital, for
The Life Ring Foundation hosts Darius Rucker at Elmwood Park: Raising over $34,000 for Fighting Kids Cancer campaign.
When Kelly & Jessica Woolwine launched the Fighting Kids Cancer campaign in fall of 2022, they knew knocking it out of the park, Elmwood Park to be exact, was key to a successful launch in 2023. That is what led to Woolwine’s connection with Darius Rucker and his team, who have a similar passion for
The Life Ring Foundation: Presenting Sponsor of 2023 Cure Kids Cancer Radiothon, helping to raise over $163,000 for Carilion Children’s.
Kelly & Jessica Woolwine, founders of The Life Ring Foundation, began supporting Carilion Children’s, a part of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, since the early 2000’s. Little did they know that they would be supporting at a deeper and more personal level by 2018, when their daughter Charlotte was 3 years old and diagnosed with cancer.
Support from Life Ring Foundation makes possible testing of a new drug combination
The support of the Life Ring Foundation makes possible testing of a new drug combination for relapsed and refractory hepatoblastoma. This combination of the polo-like kinase inhibitor Onvansertib with the chemotherapy drug irinotecan has had favorable results in a mouse model of one child’s cancer. The question is: how many children might this combination apply
LRF Supports Hepatoblastoma Research at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
On behalf of the Woolwine family, The Life Ring Foundation and the Unicorn Warrior Princess Charlotte, we wanted to bring you the following message/update…
LRF Sponsors Lea Youth Outdoor Basketball League
Roanoke City Councilman Sherman Lea thanks Life Ring Foundation President Kelly Woolwine for being a major sponsor of the Lea Youth Outdoor Basketball League.