About Hives for Lives Grandpa, "Honey" Hi! We are Molly and Carly and we are now 17 and 15.  Almost five years ago our grandfather died very suddenly from cancer of the throat.  He was very young.  We wanted to do something to remember him and to make sure that others would not get sick and die like he did. Our other grandparents have bee hives and we help them harvest the honey every year.  One day, we figured out that we could actually sell the honey and donate all the money to the help beat cancer.  We also came up with the name Hives for Lives.  We sold jars and rounds of honey for the first time in 2004. We went to our school, our friends, our parents' work, our church , and told our story about our grandfather and our project to help.  At the end of that first year, we were asked to give our first check for over $2,000 at the annual American Cancer Society ball. The next year, with lots more honey, we donated another $10,000.  The next, another $9,000!  Then in the third year over $22,000.  In total we have now donated over $ 150,000 in a little more than four years.  We introduced our Local Honey Local Money program.  Profits from our sales have gone to the American Cancer Society, the Penn Abramson Cancer Center, the Fox Chase Center, Stanford Hospital, St Jude's, MD Anderson, the Mayo Clinic, Hunstman, Dana Farber, Sloan Kettering and the Susan G Koman for a Cure foundation.  We now have over twenty hives of our own hives and many more partner hives.  As of March of 2006 we even have official 501c3 status and are expanding our sales nationally. We are now in nine regions in Whole Foods Markets throughout the country.  We are recruiting other kids to sell and raise bees along with us as HELPER BEES.  We have started a club at our school called the Young Business Women: Hives for Lives Club.   We have already sold in more than 30 states and England and Puerto Rico! So -- if you love honey, let us know if you want to help! Take Care! Good Health! Molly and Carly molandcar@hivesforlives.com Hives For Lives Create Your Badge Click here for pictures from this year's harvest and bottling! Over $150,000 raised so far! Check us out on Channelone, a NBC News channel that plays to over 6 million kids at school everyday.  It also is on the NBC Nightly News website. HIVES for LIVES the MOVIE:  It was worth the wait.  Even though it is a little outdated, we finally got our video online so people can see it.  Click to watch the movie and hear us tell our story. Since we made the movie, we are now in 6 regions of Whole Foods and have raised more than $150,000. Hope you like it. NEWS FLASH:  We were just interviewed on CNN as two Young People Who Rock.  Check it out here. We have been honored with the President's Call to Service Award! This award is given out by the President of the US to Volunteers who have done outstanding work to help change lives. We were contacted by the White House and met President Bush in person! Click here for pics! We were environmental recipients for the TA Barron Prize.  We are so psyched to be named with 9 of our nations most dedicated social and environmental youth entrepreneurs.  Read more about this here! We were also honored to have been selected as the middle school and high school representatives for Pennsylvania for the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards!   The awards constitute the United States' largest youth recognition program based solely on volunteering. Over the past 11 years, the program has honored more than 70,000 young volunteers at the local, state, and national level.  We received our medals at an all-expense paid trip to Washington DC where we met the other 100 honorees and competed for the national winners!  To see more about the awards click here.  To see our press release click here.  We have been busy!  Some highlights! WHOLE FOODS Vision Day:  We spoke at the 2008 Whole Foods Pow Wow Day in Austin, TX.  We even got to meet Mr. Mackey.  Look for us in all the Whole Foods stores in the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northeast, North Atlantic, South, Southern and Northern California and Rocky Mountains. We are being featured on the most visited Kids and Teen Health Site in the US.  Check out Carly's article in the Kids Health section and Molly's article in the Teens Health section! Also, check out the really cool slideshow on the site too, just click on the window with the star and our picture!