The salon’s a-buzzing with pride today! Our nonprofit organization Wigs For Kids will be featured on LIVE with Kelly and Michael tomorrow morning! They will be sending us a hair donation of over 20 inches from a man who has never cut his hair before! We are so excited and overwhelmed by their graciousness to help out our cause and give to the children!
If you see the segment and feel led to help, we have the perfect opportunity right around the corner! Sign up to support, or participate in the 8th annual Wigs for Kids Zoo Walk here!
Summer is finally upon us! And with summer comes some amazing events with Jeffrey Paul Salon and Wigs for Kids — most importantly our ‘Wigs for Kids day at the Zoo‘ where thousands of participants walk/run and donate to support children in need. Children like Lauren McManaway.
Lauren McManaway, age 7, is a 2013 Wigs for Kids recipient. Lauren is a beautiful 7 year old girl who is always smiling and fun loving! She loves to sing, do tumbling and to skate. Her favorite sports are cheer and gymnastics. She is a member of a mini cheer team Level 3 and is a Midwest National Champion. Lauren has 3 siblings, one of which is her twin sister. She enjoys jumping on her trampoline with her sisters and practicing her newly acquired skills in gymnastics. Lauren is a big fan of trying to beat her older brother at xbox!
This week, I want to spotlight an organization that’s very close to my heart. Wigs for Kids is a nonprofit organization that I started over 30 years ago when my beautiful niece came to me and told me that she would be losing her hair due to Leukemia. My niece, Laura, is no longer with us, but her legacy lives on every day when donors from all over the country cut off their pony-tails and donate them to children in need through our nonprofit organization.
These children are school-aged kids who are suffering from medical related hair loss, many of them suffering from Alopecia. Wigs for Kids will hand make a customized hair replacement system, worth roughly $1800 a piece, and donate the wigs to the child in need – for free. With the Wigs for Kids wigs, children can run, skip, hop, tumble and swim just like any child their age without worrying about what they look like.
But it’s not just the hair that’s life-altering for these children. Our spokesperson, Annie who came to Wigs for Kids with Alopecia in 4th grade, recently won a $50,000 college scholarship from the Maltz Museum Stop Hate contest for an essay she wrote (watch below). What Annie told the world is that Wigs for Kids did not just give her back her physical appearance, the organization helped her regain her self confidence – she’s now able to live life as a normal child. (Simply amazing, don’t you agree?)
And that, as Annie noted, is the mission of Wigs for Kids – to help children live their lives. And we can accomplish that for hundreds of children every year with the support of fans, organizations and celebrities like the Green Bay Packer’s AJ Hawk, The Carolina Panthers’ Cam Newton, The New Orleans Saints’ Thomas Morstead and many more.
Thank you so much for your support. To learn more about our organization or Alopecia, click the links below:
Your hair donation is a very precious thing, it’s precious to you because your hair is a part of who you are and, it’s just as precious to the recipient of your hair, whose life your donation will change. Here is a quick video I pulled from our charity Wigs for Kids, that demonstrates a few quick instructions to ensure your hair donation is usable. Thank you again for your donations and know that your contribution is helping children look themselves and live their lives!
Steps:
1. Secure your hair donation at the end where you cut the pony tail, and then every two inches until you reach the end of the donation.
2.Wrap the secured donation in tissue paper or newspaper.
3. Put the wrapped donation in a zip lock bag.
4. Label your donation with the length of the hair.
Summer is finally upon us! And with summer comes some amazing events with 
This week, I want to spotlight an organization that’s very close to my heart.