$100,000 or Bust: Pediatrician VEO Gears Up for Savannah Event
Meet Yael. Yael Elfassy-Conner is a shavee℠ and the VEO of the immensely successful Savannah City Market event in Georgia. She also happens to be a pediatrician. Her young patients call her Dr. E. We think she’s awesome and we’re pretty sure you will too.
Sometimes, Dr. Yael Elfassy-Conner’s patients whisper about her to their parents.
“Mommy, why is her head shaved?”
Yael, otherwise known as Dr. E, is a pediatrician, a shavee and the passionate volunteer event organizer (VEO) for the Savannah City Market St. Baldrick’s event in Georgia.
Dr. Yael Elfassy-Conner shaves for St. Baldrick’s each year at her Savannah, Georgia, event. “It’s liberating,” she said.
TEDx Talk: The 36 Rabbis’ Extraordinary Story
Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr recently took to the TEDx stage to tell the 36 Rabbis’ unforgettable story. As the Rabbis near their $1 million goal for childhood cancer research, a generous donor has agreed to match any new and increased gifts to St. Baldrick’s for the 36 Rabbis’ campaign. Make your gift go twice as far for kids with cancer. Make a donation to the 36 Rabbis.
Rabbi Rebecca Schorr tells the 36 Rabbis’ story from the TEDx stage in Lehigh River, Pennsylvania.
Watch Rebecca’s full TEDx Talk >
More than six dozen rabbis walk into a room and shave their heads.
Don’t worry; this isn’t the start of an ethnic joke. This is a true story of what happened when a group of religious leaders decided that they didn’t want to bury any more kids whose lives could have been saved. It’s a lesson that a seemingly innocuous comment can be the beginning of something amazing. And it is a reminder that ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
First-Time VEO Fundraises for Childhood Cancer in Mother’s Honor
Heather Stenger’s mom, Aria, cared deeply about children. So when Aria passed away suddenly last October, her daughter decided to honor her memory in a way that would have made her mama proud. Join Heather — start an event!
First-time VEO Heather organized her St. Baldrick’s event, and braved the shave, to honor her mother.
“My mom was the type of person who would do anything for anybody. It didn’t matter if she had the time to do it or not, she’d make the time,” Heather said.
VEOs: 5 Tips to Grow Your Event
Volunteer Event Organizers Robb Drzewicki and Eric Bacyinski aren’t content with raising the same amount for childhood cancer research year after year. Get the inside scoop on how their event at The Plymouth Roc grew from $12,000 raised in 2011 to $58,000 in 2014. Want a hint? There’s no magic involved — just old fashioned teamwork, social media savvy, creativity and loads of fun.
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VEOs: 5 Ways to Own Your Next Event
Read how one St. Baldrick’s Volunteer Event Organizer got inspired and made his second head-shaving event even better than the first! Register your 2015 event now.
VEO Mike with Haven, a St. Baldrick’s Honored Kid, at the Parker, Colorado, head-shaving event.
“Own it and have fun. That’s what it’s all about,” Mike Waid said.
Mike’s “Shave the Mayor” event kicked off in 2013, with a call to the citizenry of the small town of Parker to participate and a goal of raising $2,000. Who could resist seeing their elected official go under the razor?
St. Baldrick’s VEO Uses His Voice to Help Kids With Cancer
Bob shares his best (and worst) ideas for a great head-shaving event.
St. Baldrick’s VEO Bob GaNun talks to a young shavee at his Floral Park event, which has raised over $1 million for pediatric cancer research.
Don’t.
It seemed like a good idea at first. “I thought, we’ll kick the beach balls around…it will be like a concert,” Bob said. But once they got the beach balls on the stage, things got hairy. “There was hair floating all over the place, hair sticking to the beach balls. Everybody popped them. But it was funny.”
Fun is what Bob brings to his St. Baldrick’s event year after year, and it works. Since 2009, his event at the Trinity Bar and Restaurant in Floral Park, New York, has raised over $1 million for children’s cancer research.
7 Steps to Building a St. Baldrick’s Event from a Veteran VEO
A San Antonio VEO shares his tips and tricks.
Paul and his sons with Aubrey, a childhood cancer survivor, at a St. Baldrick’s event in San Antonio last year.
It all started with a poster in a Starbucks.
That’s how volunteer event organizer (VEO) Paul Harris first heard about the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. The flyer advertising a head-shaving event to benefit childhood cancer research right there in San Antonio looked especially appealing to Paul’s two young boys, Coda and Wyland, who were excited to sign up as shavees.
Not knowing what to expect, Paul and his sons showed up on the big day, and they were hooked.
Participating in a St. Baldrick’s event in March was something Paul and his sons looked forward to every year after that. They drove to Austin for the Dell Children’s Medical Center event three years in a row when there wasn’t a St. Baldrick’s event in their hometown. The following year, Paul made it his New Year’s resolution to bring St. Baldrick’s back to San Antonio.
The March 2014 San Antonio event will mark Paul’s third year as a VEO. He shares his advice for new VEOs, veteran VEOs looking to grow their event, or anyone considering starting their own St. Baldrick’s tradition.
Heroes for Hannah: Cayman Islands Community Comes Together to Cure Childhood Cancer
Hannah with her parents, Nigel and Gaylene. Hannah is 6 years old and battling anaplastic medulloblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.
Funding Research Today to Save Lives Tomorrow
Frank with the Iowa Chrome Domes
As the person who introduced St. Baldrick’s to the state of Iowa in 2006, I felt it was important to lead by example and be a shavee. I was familiar with St Baldrick’s from my New York days and knew that the generous people of Iowa would be great supporters once they became familiar with the history, economics and mission of St Baldrick’s.
My motivation at that point was supporting the great things St. Baldrick’s was doing to help children stricken unfairly by the ravages of cancer. A couple of years later it became personal when my nephew, Chris, was diagnosed with medulloblastoma.
The Room was Electric: A St. Baldrick’s Event in Hollywood, Florida
A St. Baldrick’s event interview with Chris Haggerty, shavee and co-organizer of the Mickey Byrne’s Irish Pub event in Hollywood, Florida on Sept. 15. This event raised more than $42,000 for children’s cancer research!
What motivated you to get involved with the St. Baldrick’s Foundation?
My first experience with St. Baldrick’s was as a shavee last year. When I signed up, I asked my friends if they knew a local child with cancer that I could talk to and honor. Several people told me about Maddie.
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