FOR CANCER FAMILIES
The Hines FamilyMeet the Hines Family
Candi and Jonathan Hines know this road. Their son Link passed away in 2025 after a courageous two year battle with leukemia. Through that fight they saw how much parents need someone who truly understands.
Today they serve as our Family Advisors, honoring Link's legacy by walking alongside families who are in the fight right now, so no parent has to face pediatric cancer alone.
How Candi and the Hines Family Can Help
Reach out to Candi
Email FamilySupport@hogfarmerscharity.org
Family Support offers peer support, empathy, and encouragement from parents with lived experience. It does not replace professional medical, psychological, or mental health care. Families are encouraged to seek guidance from qualified healthcare and mental health professionals as needed.
Lincoln's Light Birthday SmilesA birthday card from the Hines family
Lincoln's Light Birthday Smiles is a personal gesture from Candi and Jonathan Hines, our Family Advisors, paid for out of their own pocket to show some love and help make the day a little brighter.
Brothers and sisters receive a birthday card on their birthday too.
Just tell us the birthdays and where to mail the cards.
Together, we can remind every child and sibling that they are seen, celebrated, and deeply loved.
If you know of a family in the Virginia, Washington D.C. and Maryland area with a child suffering through pediatric cancer and you think they could benefit from some special attention from us, The Hogfarmers, please feel free to nominate them below.
Request a Hogfarmer Care Package
- Stuffed Hogfarmer piggy
- Hogfarmer beanie
- Be Strong T-shirt
- $350 in gift cards
- A toy of their choosing
- Activity books
- Pens & stickers
- A letter from the Hogfarmers
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Our Latest Care Packages Went To
Every package is packed by Hogfarmer volunteers and paid for by sponsors like you.
- A thank-you shoutout on Hogfarmers social media
- A personal thank-you from the Hogfarmers team
#ZolaStrongThe Zola Barbour Memorial HOG Grant
The Zola Barbour Memorial HOG grant was first awarded to a young girl named Zola Barbour who was diagnosed with Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumors in 2019. The weekly trips from Virginia to New York to receive a trial cancer treatment was a heavy financial burden on her family, and Hogfarmers Charitable Foundation wanted to step in and do more to help the Barbour family and other families like theirs.
We took Zola and her family out to lunch to get to know them a little better. Together we laughed, told stories and just enjoyed the day. Zola wasn't feeling well, but she laughed and smiled all afternoon. At the end of the lunch we announced that we were awarding the family a $1,000 grant.
We headed to lunch that day thinking we would be impacting a family, but instead left having been touched by a beautiful young teenage girl who laughed and smiled despite her pain and discomfort.
In light of Zola's passing, our monthly HOG grants will be forever known as The Zola Barbour Memorial HOG Grant.
How the Grant Works
The Zola Barbour Memorial One-Time Grants are awarded through our application process and provide funding to Hogfarmer families in the Virginia, Washington D.C. and Maryland area.
- Your name or logo on our Partner With Us page
- A thank-you shoutout on Hogfarmers social media
- A personal thank-you from the Hogfarmers team
Hogfarmers Family Vacation at Massanutten
A weekend away from hospitals and treatment. Each summer, selected Hogfarmer families enjoy an all-expenses-paid Friday to Sunday getaway at Massanutten Resort and Waterpark in Virginia.
- Your name in our social media thank-you post
- A personal thank-you from the Hogfarmers team
- Your name on our Family Vacation page
- Everything above, plus:
- Your logo on the Family Vacation T-shirts*
- Your logo on our Family Vacation page
*Presenting Sponsorships must be received by May 31 to be printed on the shirts.
Want a different amount or a custom package? Email hogfarmers@hogfarmerscharity.org and we'll build one with you.
Become a Sponsor
Hogfarmers Halloween Event
A spooky good night out with the Hogfarmer crew. Families join us for bowling and food, and every child in the family gets a Halloween costume, including brothers and sisters.
- Your name in our social media thank-you post
- A personal thank-you from the Hogfarmers team
- Your name on our Halloween Event page
- Everything above, plus:
- Your logo on the Halloween event banner*
- Your logo on our Halloween Event page
*Presenting Sponsorships must be received by September 30 to be printed on the banner.
Want a different amount or a custom package? Email hogfarmers@hogfarmerscharity.org and we'll build one with you.
Become a Sponsor
Lincoln's Light: Hope for the Holidays
Lincoln was a bright, joyful little boy who bravely fought T-cell leukemia. His light carries on through Lincoln's Light, which fills the holiday wish lists of children fighting pediatric cancer and their siblings.
- A thank-you shoutout on Hogfarmers social media
- A personal thank-you from the Hogfarmers team
- Everything above, plus:
- Your name on our Lincoln's Light page
- Everything above, plus:
- Your logo on our Lincoln's Light page
- A featured thank-you post on Hogfarmers social media