No child should fight cancer alone.
FlowFam gives its time and reach to the Koenig Childhood Cancer Foundation, a charity started by an 11-year-old cancer survivor with $900 from her piggy bank. Here is why, and how your company can help in a single afternoon.
I build hiring systems for a living. It is good work, and I am proud of it. But the work I am proudest of does not show up on an invoice.
Every week I give part of my time to the Koenig Childhood Cancer Foundation. I help them reach the companies that can host a Crazy Socks event, find the corporate partners who keep Family Aid funded, and build the systems that let a very small team support thousands of families. Every email I send ends with a link to give $10, because I have watched what $10 does when a family is choosing between rent and a hospital parking garage.
Elana started this when she was eleven, three years after finishing her own chemo. She is the reason I do it. If you are a client, a partner, or just someone who landed on this page, I would love for you to be part of it too.
From a hospital bed to one of the youngest nonprofit founders in the world
Elana Koenig was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare and aggressive childhood cancer, at age seven. What she saw in the hospital, and what her parents went through to be there, became the foundation.
Fifteen months of treatment
Nine cycles of chemotherapy and fifteen surgeries. Long hospital stays, dull hospital socks, and parents who put their own lives on hold to be at her bedside.
$900 from a piggy bank
On her last day of chemo, Elana looked around at the children still fighting. She founded KCCF with her own savings so that no family would go through it alone.
Seventeen and Cornell-bound
Keynote speaker, featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show and in People Magazine, and still hand-delivering gift bags to hospitals with her parents, Rena and Scott, beside her.
“No child should fight cancer alone.”Elana Koenig, Founder, KCCF
What a family-run charity has done in six years
Where the money and the time go
Family Aid
Emergency help with the bills that pile up around a diagnosis: rent, groceries, transportation to treatment, lodging near the hospital. Direct, fast, and no strings.
Apply or learn moreCrazy Socks Gift Bags
Care packages with bright socks, comfort items, and handwritten notes of hope, delivered to children in hospitals across the United States and beyond.
How companies take partKCCF Camp
An international summer camp where children diagnosed with cancer get to be kids again, with other kids who understand exactly what they have been through.
About the campTen dollars is a hospital parking fee. Or a hot meal. Or a bag of crazy socks.
Every email I send ends with this link. It goes straight to KCCF’s Family Aid fund, and it takes about a minute. If FlowFam has ever done anything useful for you, this is the thank-you I would ask for.
Host Crazy Socks at your office
When Elana was in treatment, the dull hospital socks came to stand for everything about those days. When she got home, she threw them out. Crazy Socks is her answer: a gift bag with bright socks and a handwritten note, made by people who care, delivered to a child who needs to know someone does.
For a company, it is the best team-building event you will run this year. KCCF brings everything to your office. Elana tells your team why it matters. Your people write the notes and build the bags. Two hours, no logistics on your side, and a very real outcome.
KCCF coordinates
Supplies delivered to your office, setup handled.
Elana inspires
The founder tells your team the story in person.
Your team builds
Notes of hope written, bags packed, ready for delivery.
Companies that have hosted: Meta, Bank of America, UBS, Aflac Global Investments, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Forvis Mazars, Madison Square Garden. Events are held in person in the New York metro area.
