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As of 2026, Help Hope Live has earned the highest possible Platinum Seal of Transparency from Candid.

On November 25, 2025, the Foxwynd Foundation approved a $30,000 grant to support the mission of the national medical fundraising nonprofit Help Hope Live.

Pamela Byrd Lamb spent 30 years as a rehabilitation therapist specializing in neurologic dysfunction. In 2015, everything changed: she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Her loving community has raised over $5,000 through a campaign with the nonprofit Help Hope Live to help fuel a specialized treatment that could give Pam hope for a brighter, healthier future.

We’re grateful to the team at CBS GoodDay Sacramento for interviewing our client Jason Ellefson and his wife, Shawna, about how they’ve built resilience, community, and hope following a life-changing medical event.

Living with paralysis from the neck down since a 2021 accident, our client Rebecca Koltun is skilled at converting pain to meaning, humor, and art.

We’re grateful to the local news stations out of Tampa Bay, FL that have helped to amplify the campaign of 71-year-old William “Scott” Baggett, a perpetual volunteer who has changed lives with his therapy dog training and its community impact.

In 2025, our annual Bags of Hope tradition flourished with help from staff, local organizations, and friends of Help Hope Live, plus Ambassadors across the country.

We got the chance to bowl in the company of special guests with an appearance from Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Zack Baun. Here are photos and highlights!

At 71 years old, William “Scott” Baggett has faced decades of challenges and triumphs living with a paralyzing polio diagnosis. A local legend for his life-changing work training therapy dogs and volunteering with kids, Scott is now in need of a little help himself.

April 22, 2024 started out as a positive day for 40-year-old Jason Ellefson and his wife, Shawna. In the middle of a set with his rock band, Jason collapsed. He experienced 4 cardiac arrests, brain damage, and a spinal cord stroke.