Los Alamos Brave Hearts seek support for St. Baldrick’s fundraiser
With $0 raised and only three participants listed, Brave Hearts of Los Alamos are pressing neighbors, churches and businesses to fill July 18’s St. Baldrick’s shave.
Los Alamos Brave Hearts are trying to widen the circle around this year’s St. Baldrick’s fundraiser before the first head is shaved. The local group’s appeal is landing at a moment when the event page shows a $20,000 goal, but fundraising sits at $0 and only three participants are listed, a thin start for a campaign that depends on visible turnout as much as donations.
The Brave Hearts of Los Alamos event is scheduled for July 18, 2026, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Athletic Field, 9999 Nectar St. in Los Alamos. Rollin Tyler Jones and Stephanie Krantz are listed as contacts for the fundraiser. Organizers have been reaching out to local businesses, churches, social groups and community members in hopes of building the kind of crowd that gives St. Baldrick’s its public energy and its financial base.
That matters because the event is not just a local shave. St. Baldrick’s says it is a volunteer- and donor-powered charity that has invested more than $371 million in childhood cancer research grants worldwide since 2005. The organization also says a child is diagnosed with cancer every two minutes worldwide and describes itself as the largest volunteer-powered charity funding childhood cancer research grants outside the U.S. government. Its head-shaving events are part of a grassroots movement that began 25 years ago.
Los Alamos has done this before. A March 17, 2013 report said 31 Los Alamos firefighters shaved their heads at Station 3 in White Rock and raised nearly $5,000 for St. Baldrick’s. Then-Deputy Fire Chief Justin Grider said at the time that he wanted the event to become annual and even bigger the next year, a sign that the county’s support for the cause had already taken root in a very local way.
That history gives the 2026 push added weight. In a community where school schedules, Laboratory work and county business often dominate the calendar, the Braves Hearts effort is trying to keep a charitable tradition visible and active. If turnout falls short, the immediate loss is not just to a fundraiser; it is to a local ritual of solidarity that has helped connect Los Alamos to childhood cancer research for years.
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