Friends of Kids with Cancer
Devoted to enriching the daily lives of children undergoing treatment for, and survivors of, cancer and blood-related diseases.
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Raised since 2015
The Climb & The Goal
We’ve set an ambitious target to raise $150,000 this year for organizations focused on childhood empowerment – from battling rare, life threatening illnesses to providing enriching experiences. And this year, Denali—the highest mountain peak in North America—is our backdrop.
Follow our team’s journey through the Alaska Range on social media and donate today to help us reach our fundraising goal.
Who We Support
Our chosen charities all help children fighting serious illness or strive to empower children to live their best lives. This year, we’re raising money for:
Girls on the Run St. Louis
Inspires girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.
Girls on the Run Rockies
Inspires girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.
Fight DMD
Funds research to help find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a rare genetic disease that weakens the muscles over time.
Isaac Bruce Foundation
Reaches out to youth and teaches them at an early age the importance of a healthy lifestyle with a focus on education.
Crowns Fight Cancer
Elizabeth Weidner, founder, is a childhood cancer warrior who advocates for those that can’t by utilizing her pageant crown to change how the world views pediatric cancer.
The History
While going through a particularly trying path in his career, Ryan Kelley, Founder of The Home Loan Expert, spent time volunteering in a local children’s hospital, helping kids going through the hardest times.
In their presence, Kelley gained a life-altering perspective and decided to find a way to have a bigger impact on the children he’d met. He landed on an unorthodox fundraising plan: climb Mt. Rainer to raise donations directly for charities. From that first climb in 2015, Climb for the Kids was born and is now an annual fundraiser.
This 2021 Climb is the first major fundraiser under the Keep Climbing Foundation, which launched earlier this year. As in every year previous, 100% of donations go to charitable causes thanks to support from The Home Loan Expert.
This year, the summit isn’t the finish line. With the Foundation, it’s just the beginning.
