Our Mission Statement:

The LiveLovely Foundation grew out of the deep love and care Charlie Lovely felt for the children and adolescents he met in the oncology unit while he was being treated for leukemia. The LiveLovely Foundation is dedicated to fulfilling the dreams Charlie had of helping other children and adolescents battling cancer and committed to supporting the needs of those children and adolescents and their families.

While laying in his hospital bed in the first week of diagnosis Charlie said he wanted to start a foundation to raise money to help children and adolescents with cancer in anyway possible, and thats what he did.  He was the most passionate, fun loving, charming, funniest person you would ever meet and this foundation will help him live on forever through giving.  

The LiveLovely Foundation will raise money to help other families living with childhood cancer and families that are affected by the AYA Survival Gap.  The financial burden to those experiencing this is tremendous.  Money is the last thing you need to worry about if you have a child living with cancer, and there are very few families who can afford it.  Medical Bills, Food, Hotel Stays etc...

LiveLovely's Board of Directors, staff and doctors will research and help guide families in crucial decision making.  LiveLovely wants to help these families make the right decisions when it comes to the well being of their families.

The biggest goal we here at LiveLovely have set out to accomplish is to build the first hospital specifically for the cancer patients that fall in the AYA Survival Gap. During the last 25 years, improvement in survival for young children with cancer has been striking. Survival has also increased for older adults; however, 5-year survival rates have fallen for adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients. Reasons for this decline termed the "AYA Cancer Survival Gap," remain unknown. Currently, most people remain unaware of this tragic decline, and the people that fall in this gap are being left behind. AYA's don't have a "home" right now, and LiveLovely is fighting to make them one.

Please check back for more information on the AYA Cancer Survival Gap!