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A handstand-walk-a-thon uniting athletes in the fight against pediatric cancers.

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Only 4-5% of the National Cancer Institute’s budget is dedicated to researching pediatric cancers, making it extremely underfunded.

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  • “After researching ways to make her fundraising more personal, Sloane said she was thinking of becoming a children’s cancer doctor when she grows up!

    — Mom of 11 year old

  • "Thanks for inspiring my daughter and showing her what is possible when we take bad things that happen to us, and make great things result from them.”

    — Mom of 11 year old

  • "I’m her mum and had breast cancer a few years ago so she’s aware and has had to deal with the baldness and the rest. I hope our gym continues with this event!"

    — Mom to 9 year old

  • "Abby is so grateful for meeting your family and so happy she has been able to make a small difference in fundraising. It has been an amazing learning experience for her"

    — Mom to 16 year old

  • "What you and your daughter are doing is truly inspirational and helping these girls become better humans overall."

    -Mom to 12 year old

  • “She created her own PowerPoint presentation so that she could raise money on her own. She gave us her presentation and then asked my husband if she could do her presentation to his work zoom and she did”

    • Mom to 11 year old

Athlete Resource Center

  • Ensure you gym is registered to participate. Find your gym’s team page here. Click “join team”, which will prompt you to register your personal information. Once completed you will have a personal fundraising page.

    You can edit your personal page to share your motivation to fundraise and include a personal picture. You can send that page to friends, family, fans, and link it in your bio of your social channels.

  • Teams can have as many participants as you’d like. Once a team is registered, they will receive a link and a code that can be distributed to those you want to join your team.

  • While there is no minimum donation to participate, please do your best to raise money for pediatric cancer research. We think you will find the experience all the more rewarding.

  • Email your friends and family sharing you will be participating in Handstand Walk this year and fundraising for pediatric cancer research. Ask them to sponsor your participation by donating to your personal page. 100% of funds raised goes directly to pediatric cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Kids.

  • Link your personal fundraising page to your social media channels.

    Print a QR code to your team page that you put at your gyms front desk!

  • Handstand Walk is a fundraising movement under MSK Kids Walk - flipped on its head. When Covid made the traditional 1000+ person Kids Walk event in Central Park not possible, we got a little creative harnessing new energy, in a way gymnasts know best. Read more about our founding story.

  • Absolutely! All of them! Handstand Walk is fundraising effort under, Kids Walk for MSK Kids, which is fully owned and operated by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Memorial Sloan Kettering's 501c3 tax identification is: 13-1924236. Your gift to Kids Walk for MSK Kids is 100% tax-deductible. You will receive a confirmation receipt via email after submitting your donation. Please save this email receipt for your tax records. Further FAQs here.

  • Absolutely! That is up to you.

  • It was important we got this right! We collaborated with NCAA compliance officers to keep everything compliant. We have a tear sheet that you can send to your compliance officer to be safe.

    *Note NCAA participants will NOT receive prizes

  • We can’t wait to expand to more gyms. Drop us a note to let us know where we should go next!

  • A heck of a lot more FAQs and troubleshooting are here

Who We Are

Handstand Walk for Kids is led by Wall Street Managing Director, mom to a 4-year-old cancer survivor, and former Brown University Gymnast Caryn Freiberger, along with best-in-class advisors, and a band of rockstar athletes.

We are all volunteers and 100% self-funded so that every dollar donated goes directly to doctors and researchers.

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