ABOUT OUR FOUNDATION
Our son passed just shy of his 3rd birthday June 7th of 2019 in a sudden tragic accident. Our whole world was flipped upside down. Since this very day, we've had an army of love and support behind us from family, friends, neighbors and all other community. We want to raise awareness. We see the light and we are working toward the sunshine again. We want to help others who have suffered and let them know that you can and will find it again. We feel our guardian angel sends us the strength we need each day to keep moving forward and work toward finding the light again on this healing journey. He has been there to bring us hope, happiness, light and love with each rainbow we see and continues to paint our skies with his vibrant colors.
OUR MISSION: To Create, take part in and/or support projects and programs and help families by bringing others this same hope, happiness, light and love that Bryce brings us through his rainbows and create these rainbows for others. We will honor Bryce and celebrate his life with scholarships, memorials, donations and more. Please follow us along on this healing journey and help us keep our beautiful boy's memory alive.
OUR RECENT EVENTS & FUNDRAISERS
Let's make rainbows!
SUPPORT A LOCAL SMALL BUSINESS AND OUR FOUNDATION
Cutlets Proceeds Day
In past years in the fall, right before Thanksgiving, The Bryce Matthew McCarthy Memorial Foundation and Cutlets team up to do a "proceeds day." Cutlets puts together a specialized Thanksgiving menu in addition to it's regular menu and a portion of the proceeds are donated to the foundation. With your help, the last one we did in 2021 was the most successful year yet! Thank you to all that helped us and got those orders in.
HELPING PROVIDE TOYS TO CHILDREN IN NEED
Angles Gift Drive
GABryce continues to do AMAZING things from above. Every year, the Bryce McCarthy Memorial Foundation has taken part in the Angels Gift Drive. This past Christmas several children had gifts under their tree on Christmas morning thanks to our Angel Bryce and all that will sponsor a child in his honor. Thank you to all that plan to participate again this upcoming year! We are looking forward to another successful year!
President: Courtney McCarthy
Director & Treasurer: Richard McCarthy
Board of Directors: Courtney McCarthy, Richard McCarthy, Jaclyn Muralla & Walter Sybertz
Stay tuned here for updates here and follow along on our healing journey. Help us keep our GABryce's memory alive and help support us with upcoming projects.
Updates/ Announcements:
Thank you for your continuous love and support and all your ongoing donations.
Here are some current updates we are SO EXCITED and HAPPY to share with you!
On Saturday, October 28th, the Bryce Memorial
Foundation second festival and fundraiser; Autumn Rainbows for Bryce and yet another wonderfully successful day it was! On behalf of Rich & I, our families, the foundation, we want to say THANK YOU whole heartedly to everyone that pulled together and rallied to help make the day the successful event it was. The weather could not have been more perfect, many bid high, our vendors were wonderful and so easy to work with, family and friends worked so hard to come together and we had an even bigger turnout than last year of family, friends near and far, fellow neighbors, members of the town and nearby towns and communities. This truly warmed our hearts and brought such happiness in knowing all the good we can do in the near future for this foundation in our son Bryce’s memory and thanks to ALL OF YOU that helped make yesterday possible. We feel so very thankful, grateful and blessed to have the army behind us that we do and we cannot thank you all enough. Much love and our sincerest appreciation.
Here is a breif video on this very special event.
Rainbow Bag Project
I will be circling back this summer for nominations. Thank you for all your spring nominations. Spring rainbow bags have gone out successfully. This is an ongoing project the Bryce Memorial Foundation does to help other families who have lost loved ones. We essentially bring a rainbow to those families in need that are grieving and are in need of some extra TLC. Please see description of this project on our website for further information and please DM me if you have a family in mind you would like to nominate.
Scholarships
Scholarships are awarded to both Millis and Dedham High School students every spring. These scholarships will be going out once again this spring. The Bryce Memorial Foundation wishes all it's students that receive their scholarship the very best on their new journeys off to college.
Playground Donation:
“Rainbow Rail Road” playground structure has successfully been installed and is open for all to enjoy! For more details on this, feel free to visit our website.
Angels Gift Drive
This holiday season, once again our foundation donated to the Angels Wonderfund Gift Drive. Thanks to all of you that have or will donate or sponsor a child in our Angel's memory this Christmas. Because of you, a child can wake up happy on Christmas morning.
Supporting other foundations and Non-Profits
The Bryce Memorial Foundation has made several donations to several other funds, foundations, organizations and non-profits. This year the Bryce Memorial Foundation has shown it's support to The Deirdre Spada Fund, Punch for Parkinson's, Mission Local and the Apple Orchard School Scholarship Fund to name a few.
To help us continue to do great things in our son’s memory in future, for us to continue making donations and taking part in these amazing events in Bryce’s honor, please feel free to donate here. Again, THANK YOU for allowing us to do what we do in honor of our son! We appreciate it SO VERY MUCH and it wouldn’t be possible without your help.
Bryce, keep guiding us and creating those vibrant, colorful, beautiful rainbows! We love you, always and forever! ❤️🌈
Memorials Donated
-A memorial Bench has been installed in our hometown of Dedham, MA square.
-Rainbow Railroad was successfully donated to Oak Grove Farm in Millis, MA. It is now open for all to enjoy!
PLEASE NOTE:
Feel free to also check out our Rainbows for Bryce FB page as well as our Rainbows for Bryce IG page for current updates. Keep sharing those beautiful rainbows with us!
Bryce, keep shining your colors radiantly for us and painting our skies with your rainbows and we will do our part to forever make you proud and create rainbows for you and for all! "When Life gives you rain, jump in the puddles....." and always look for the rainbows and sunshine!
Autumn Rainbows for Bryce Festival and Fundraiser 2023
Rainbow Bracelets
Our talented and creative niece Nahla makes these adorable rainbow bracelets to support her cousin Bryce's foundation. A portion of the proceeds for each bracelet sale that is made goes to our Foundation. Be sure to check her shop by clicking on the link below.
The Rainbow Bag Project is an ongoing project and our way of giving back in Bryce's honor to families that have gone through tragic loss especially of a child or infant. We hope that we can share with others the same love, light, hope and happiness he shares with us with each rainbow he sends. The Rainbow Bags are special care packages filled with comforting gifts that hopefully will help the recipient smile. These little rainbows are filled with plenty of TLC. Please DM if you would like to nominate a family.
Rainbow Railroad
The first day of Installation on May 15th for "Rainbow Railroad" was a success. It was a long day for our family. We were up bright and early. My husband Rich put together a team and they worked alongside owner of Forte Landscaping and construction, our neighbor and friend; Tom Forte. He and his son were wonderful. The team spend a majority of the day hammering away, pouring cement and tirelessly working to get a good chunk of the project done. It feels great to have a majority of the structure under our belt and in place. While there is more to do including further cement pouring, solidifying the structure and ensuring all safety inspections are passed, we are getting there. We hope to have an informal ribbon cutting soon and will announce once structure is open to our family, friends, neighbors and all other community to enjoy. Stay tuned for updates here!
Rainbow Railroad is Officially Open!
❤️🌈🚂🇺🇸💙🍾🎊Despite the rainy, chilly weather, our family came together yesterday on Saturday, May 29th for the ribbon cutting reveal and official opening for the Rainbow Railroad structure at Oak Grove Playground here in Millis.
The Bryce Memorial Foundation wants to sincerely thank everyone for helping make this possible.
Yesterday was a day we celebrated Bryce and we hope that we made him proud. We will continue to honor and love you forever and always, Bryce. We hope to continue to do these events, great projects and donations in your honor in years to come.
Keep painting those vibrant rainbows in our beautiful skies! Now Let’s get this train a choo-chooing for all to enjoy! Cheers to the start of Rainbow Rail Road’s Journey, a journey that will carry on the same love, light, hope and happiness you show us with each rainbow and the beautiful life you lived.
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Please click on link or copy and paste it below where you can view us presenting the playground structure for acceptance. You can find it by fast forwarding to 0:59:50.
A little story for everyone that I thought I would share that might bring a smile to your face or maybe even shine some light on what you may believe about signs from from our loved ones above. We cherish every sign we receive from above and on this day, it was one of the most incredible signs we had yet and one we will cherish forever. It was the day after Bryce's birthday. It was in the evening and we had just sat down to relax as a family after dinner. The girls and I were in our PJs and we were getting ready to put them to bed when all of a sudden, Rich and I's phones were going off left and right with all kinds of texts and calls from our neighbors to immediately go outside and look over our roof. We honestly had no idea what was going on and we were a little startled by it all. We literally ran out of the house with no shoes in our pjs and when we ever looked up over our home and saw this, well we were speechless to say the least. The tears began to stream down my cheeks partially with happiness but also with feelings of disbelief of what I was seeing before my eyes. As we looked at the rainbow along with all our neighbors, the colors began to only get more and more vibrant and the rainbow went from being a single rainbow to a double right before our very eyes. It was truly one of the most miraculous and most beautiful sights we ever laid our eyes on. I later looked up what the symbolic meaning is behind the double rainbow and it actually symbolizes the unification of both the spiritual and physical worlds. If this was not a sign from above, I'm not sure what is. Thank you Bryce! Keep painting our skies with all your vibrant colors!
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