Teaming up for Tanner Foundation, Inc.

07/01/2025

Thanks to everyone's support, we were able to sponsor two sea turtle nests this year for Tanner! Baby turtle naming is temporarily unavailable but as soon as it is available again, we hope to be able to to sponsor a few of those as well.

We will let everyone know if/when the nests hatch!

06/16/2025

Happy World Sea Turtle Day!
Thank you so much to those of you who have already donated! We were able to sponsor 1 nest and 3 baby turtles last year. This year, our goal is to sponsor at least 2 nests!

06/16/2025

We are still collecting funds to help make Tanner's dream of saving baby sea turtles come true. Every year we sponsor sea turtle nests in his memory and name a couple baby sea turtles after him or other kiddos that have been lost to childhood cancer or are currently fighting. For more information or to donate, please visit our web page: https://teamingupfortanner.org/seaturtles/

✨🌎🐢 HAPPY WORLD SEA TURTLE DAY! 🐢🌎✨

Why should we care about sea turtles? As a keystone species, these ancient creatures are among the most important indicators of the health of the world’s marine and coastal ecosystems!

World Sea Turtle Day is celebrated every year on June 16th, the birthday of STC’s Founder Dr. Archie Carr, who is considered to be the father of sea turtle conservation. Through his research, teaching and writing, he is responsible for accumulating and distributing much of what is known about the biology and life cycle of sea turtles. He is credited by many for bringing the first international attention to the plight of marine turtles. We have come so far since Dr. Carr first began working with green turtles in Tortuguero, Costa Rica in the 1950’s, but we still have a long way to go! 💚

Original Artwork by Melina Alicia

06/12/2025

It's Sea Turtle week! As we have done the last few years, we will be sponsoring sea turtle nests and naming baby sea turtles in memory of Tanner (through the Sea Turtle Conservancy).

If you would like to help us with this effort, feel free to go to https://teamingupfortanner.org/seaturtles/ for more information on how.

If you would like to request a baby turtle to be named in memory or to honor a child with cancer or who passed from cancer, please send us a message with the name of the child and a little information about them.

Thank you!

06/12/2025

Hope you're still feeling that turtle love from ! 💙🐢 We certainly are, and it's perfect timing because Sea Turtle Week officially kicks off today!

We’re excited to shine a spotlight on our marine turtle buds. If you'd like to learn more about these amazing creatures and how you can help, our friends at SEE Turtles have fantastic resources and ways to get involved. Let's make this week a good one for sea turtles!

06/12/2025

Happy Sea Turtle Week!

There are seven extant sea turtles. Which is your favorite? Vote for your faves in the comments. These votes will help us determine what species we should next add to our sea turtle enamel pin series. Speaking of that....

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06/11/2025

We are excited to announce that Teaming up for Tanner Foundation, Inc. officially has a published website!

teamingupfortanner.org

Tanner's aunt did a fabulous job designing and putting together the entire thing, making sure information could be clear and accessible all in one location, and to give us a great platform to be able to grow the non-profit in more ways to honor and remember him.

Please help us spread the word about our new site by liking and sharing this post. We would love to be able to reach more people so the non-profit can grow and help more cancer kiddos and their families.

05/13/2025

Tanner is listed on this shirt too. If anyone wants to support this nonprofit, the shirts are being sold again.

03/26/2025

01/12/2025

I want to apologize for being quiet the last few weeks ever since the Lego Drive ended. I got really sick over the holidays and my body decided I needed to take a break. That being said, quiet doesn't mean we haven't been working behind the scenes on stuff still!
I'm excited to hopefully show you all soon what we have been working on and what new things we are hoping happen in 2025!

We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season!

12/21/2024

We were able to donate a final grand total of 580 LEGO KITS to Children's Mercy Hospital for the 2024 Holiday Season!

The workers there know all about the Turtle Tank and Tanner's story. They really appreciate all the Lego we are able to donate and say it makes a HUGE difference. Lego are one of their most requested items from the kids and they usually run out by September each year, so having this many donated frees up their funding to be able to go further for the kids in other ways too!

Thank you immensely to everyone for helping us spread a bit of joy to the Children inpatient in Tanner's memory 🥰

Keep following the page for more exciting updates & changes for the 2025 year!

12/18/2024

We are working diligently to get the raffle winners contacted and announced soon! We have multiple exciting prizes being given out! Stay tuned...!