Giving Tuesday Auction 2024

Welcome to our special 2024 Giving Tuesday Auction and thank you so much for your support. 

As we close out another year, we invite you to support rare cancer research, education, and awareness and those directly affected by rare cancers.  Every contribution helps us make a difference. 

A portion of all proceeds received from this campaign will directly sponsor cancer patients and their families this holiday season by providing them with holiday wish list items, meals, gift and gas cards, and other goods and services.  We hope these small gestures can ease some of the hardships during the holidays for these families… and  provide a little hope and holiday cheer to those who may need it the most. 

Thanks to the generosity from a group of sponsors, up to $10,000 received in donations (including through this auction) through Friday December 13th will be matched to support this initiative and our foundation. Every donation will be matched dollar for dollar, which allows you double your impact! Our goal is to sponsor over 20 families throughout the greater Annapolis region and to raise over $20,000.

Thank you for believing in our mission!

The mission of the Laughlin Family Foundation is to fund initiatives to advance the care and research for rare cancers. It was founded after Linda Laughlin (the wife of Washington Capitals Alumnus / TV Analyst Craig Laughlin) was diagnosed with a rare form of uterine cancer in 2018.

The entire Laughlin family believes that "every cancer deserves a voice," because while rare cancers only make up 25% of cancer diagnoses in the United States, they account for over 40% of cancer deaths.

The Laughlin Family Foundation hopes that you will join them in their efforts to help fund projects for underfunded and under-researched cancers like Linda's. To date, the foundation has raised close to half a million dollars and has funded projects in the DMV with Johns Hopkins School and Medicine and Maryland Oncology Hematology