IMPACT
To date, the Live Like Maya Foundation has raised over $789,000 since it's inception in 2019 to support pediatric cancer families, life-saving pediatric cancer research and goodwill within the community.
In 2024 The Live Like Maya Foundation:
- We gifted $40K to Cincinnati Children's Hospital to support their new Leukemia Center for Advanced Therapies and Research in memory of Dylan Thomas.
- We supported $35K in pediatric cancer family support, paying their bills directly, such as rent, mortgage, gas, electric, and utilities.
- We raised over $23,800 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
- We donated over over $18,500 to the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society - benefiting their innovative Dare to Dream project.
- We gifted $10K in Wyatt Reber's honor to Cincinnati Children's Hospital benefiting an ependymoma research initiative.
- We hosted a photo session with So Many Angels, transforming pediatric cancer patients on canvas into what they dream to be when they grow up.
- We contributed $800 to Make-A-Wish America.
- We supported the Mason City Schools Opening Day Teacher's Breakfast.
- We contributed $1000 + toys and gift cards from our toy/gift card drive to the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
- We granted scholarships to two Mason seniors, Hamsagayatri Tadpatri and Koah Wilson.
- We organized a blood drive, collecting 24 units of blood, potentially saving 72 lives!
- We gifted holiday family photo sessions with Little Rascals Photography to several pediatric cancer families.
With your continuous support we look forward to funding many more research initiatives, supporting many more families and paying Maya's kindness forward in our relentless quest to cure childhood cancer.
Thank you for your support!