Rutledge Cancer Foundation Butterfly Yard Signs are back and soaring to a yard near you!
This Spring, we’re encouraging our community to show your support of our mission by purchasing a "Soaring Towards a Cure” yard sign to display in your front yard. Together, with the help of our dedicated supporters, we're raising the awareness of the almost 90,000 adolescents and young adults who are diagnosed cancer each year, an often-over-looked population with unique challenges due to the life stage they're in. It's our mission to ease the impact of cancer now while working towards a tomorrow with higher survival rates and a cure for sarcomas and other solid tumor cancers for adolescent and young adults. By placing a butterfly yard sign, you’re not just decorating your yard — you’re contributing to a vital, life-saving cause and helping us raise awareness in our community. Every sign represents support and hope for AYA cancer patients. Paddling Out Cancer Pickleball Tournament and Hearts of Gold Dinner and Auction sponsors receive a complimentary yard sign.
For adolescents and young adults, cancer is a different kind of fight. That’s why
we’re here!
RCF was founded in 2011 after 15-year-old Carley Rutledge was diagnosed with Stage IV Ewing sarcoma, an aggressive bone cancer. After relapsing in 2012, Carley participated in a vaccine trial that kept her cancer in remission for eight years, but it returned in 2020, and she passed away at 27. Throughout her battle with cancer, Carley, her family and friends quickly realized that patient care, treatment options and survival rates of AYAs with cancer lagged far behind other age groups. She became passionate about finding solutions to these unmet challenges that she and thousands of other AYA cancer patients were experiencing. While Carley is no longer with us, it’s her personal journey that shaped RCF’s mission and continues to drive our work today.