Hope Beyond 21

09/17/2026

We’ve been pretty quiet over here lately, lots of moving parts in our growing organization and some life changes for some of our board members.

However, we believe everything involving our Chromie Homies is worth celebrating, both big and small and all the in between.

Congratulations to Andy on 25 years of service at Trig's! We love you and are so proud of you and grateful to have you apart of Hope Beyond 21!

Congratulations Andy Nelson! We are recognizing Andy, our courtesy clerk, for reaching his 25 years of service anniversary with Trig's. He has become a staple of the front-end! And, our guests and associates look forward to interacting and working with him when he is here with us. Here's to hoping for many more years of working with you! Thank you Andy! ( )

07/31/2026

Important announcement 📣

Our Cash Cattle & Chromosomes event in Wausau on August 9th has been rescheduled due to some conflicting personal circumstances.

We will update you all with a new date, we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

Thank you!

07/25/2026

We are so sorry to do this but we will NOT be at the Tomahawk Farm & Flea Market today, we cannot pull this off with one person and illness has struck our group 😞

We will coordinate a different date! 📅

We are so sorry for the inconvenience!

07/13/2026

This is such a wonderful thing for all of our sensory needs! Thank you Big Bear Mini Golf & Ice Cream for creating a safe space for everyone 🫶🏼

Guess what this Wednesday is?! The 3rd Wednesday of the month!

That means it’s SENSORY WINDOW WEDNESDAY and we’re excited 😊.

We will be having one more in August if you’re not able to make this one.

07/06/2026

Well this is exciting! We didn’t even know this was a thing! How amazing for our little organization, thank you to the judges 🥰💙💛

07/06/2026

07/06/2026

It was a hot one but it was a great one!

We had 6 of our families join us for the parade: Miss T, Kristen, Ali, Andy, Lexi and David! We sang, we laughed, we danced, we loved! Missing the rest of the Hope Beyond 21 families but hoping next year we can all be together! 🙂

We had the gang from Aurora's Guiding Light Foundation join us as well, which is incredibly important to all of us as both of our organizations are about inclusion, spreading awareness and defying the odds.

Thank you to everyone who joined us!

Happy birthday America!

07/05/2026

What an amazing day yesterday celebrating America’s 250th birthday ♥️🤍💙

I have an abundance of photos to share from our float yesterday, but this one deserves its own post.

Veronica DiMaggio had contacted us about taking photos for future events if we ever needed/wanted professional photos taken and yesterday we happened to end up standing in front of her for awhile waiting for the flyover, so she took some candid photos of our crew, and this one by far takes the prize for being the best one.

I don’t think I could ever explain the amount of pride and happiness I felt yesterday. We had 6 of our Chromie Homies join us for the parade, and my heart was overflowing with love literally all day.

Our entire float had so much love coming towards us yesterday it was amazing. One specific moment from the parade that brought tears to my eyes and shivers down my spine, was when we came around one of the corners and EVERYONE was standing, clapping, and yelling for our float, cheering all of us on and the pure joy on all of our faces was at that moment, my “We did it” moment. This journey has been absolutely incredible so far, and we aren’t even 6 months in. The friendships we are all building, the life lessons we’re learning, and the memories we are making is something I’ll cherish for the rest of my life.

Starting a nonprofit has been nothing short of easy as far as the logistics go, and at times I’ve questioned myself if we can truly help these families in the ways I want to, or if the goals we have set for this organization are achievable…but then moments like yesterday, where our Chromie Homies and their families were LOVED, applauded, and showcased as the amazing and beautiful people they are, reminded me that no matter what doubts or worries I may have, they will never surpass the amount of greatness we WILL achieve together.

I know I have said this so many times about how I can’t wait to see this grow, but I truthfully cannot wait to continue to grow together with our current Chromie Crews and any future relationships we have yet to build.