The G Foundation

09/08/2025

09/08/2025

💙Su***de prevention week: Sep 7, 2025 – Sep 13, 2025💜

Yesterday we had our amazing 3rd Annual fundraiser. You have absolutely blown our team away and filled our hearts. The turn out was amazing which is an understatement. We cannot thank all of our donors this year enough. To Mackenzie’s beautiful family for coming out we cannot thank you enough. You brought an army with you and we loved meeting every single one of you. We cannot wait to see you next year 💜💙

✨ stay tuned for the month of may for mental health month! ✨



Huge special thank you to some of our larger donors this year:

Photography: Nusser Photography
DJ:
Liam Luizzi - Luizzi Landscaping
B&B seal costing
The Gagliardi Family
The Voorheesville rod and gun club
Food - Kylie Rose
And so many more wonderful people!

09/05/2025

Ever want a slushi machine? Come out this Sunday for a chance to win one! Best of luck 💜💙

09/03/2025

Sneak peek of one of our large prize items you can enter in for a chance to win!✨

09/01/2025

September is Su***de Prevention Month—a time to raise awareness, break the stigma surrounding mental health, and remind ourselves that help is always available. Each life is valuable, and even the smallest act of support or kindness can make a difference. Let’s encourage open conversations, check in on our loved ones, and share resources that can offer hope and healing. If you or someone you know is struggling, you are not alone. Help is just a call or text away—reach out to 988 (Su***de & Crisis Lifeline) any time, day or night. Together, we can save lives. 💚

As always our team is always here for you 💜💙

09/01/2025

✨ Meet the Board continued ✨

Another one of our trustees! Beth is Ryan’s cousin by marriage and by heart since he was a young boy. Her intention in working with The G Foundation is to help spread awareness of the impact mental health can have on everyone, and how important maintaining communication and supporting each other is.

Beyond the honor of being part of The G Foundation, you’ll find Beth spending time with her family, as a volunteer fire fighter herself, or donating platelets through the American Red Cross.

08/30/2025

✨ Meet our Board continued ✨

Please meet our second trustee Cindy Gagliardi. The heart and soul of who Ryan was as a person. The amazing mother who raised Ryan, and helped grow him into the amazing person that we all know and absolutely love. 💙

Cindy has helped in so many different aspects for our board. She has used her connections from many different fire houses, friends, and family to help grow our name. For our fundraiser this year she mailed and wrote a letter to over 30 fire departments. When we started this foundation and presented the idea to Cindy she was behind it all the way, and her words were “ whatever we do let’s just make it the best we can that’s exactly what Ryan would want”. 💜

Cindy wants everyone to know that talking about Ryan’s story and pushing our message is exactly what she would want. Talking about these things make it more and more real so that we can help someone in the future. She cannot express her gratitude more for the amazing people and business that continue to support us! 💚

08/29/2025

✨ Meet the Board continued ✨

One of our amazing trustees! Ben is a supporter of mental health awareness and considered Ryan a good friend. His goal in working with The G Foundation is to shed light on the impact mental health can have on individuals, families and communities.

Ben is applying his business background to his role in the foundation to assist with non-profit conformation, financial aspects, and fundraising.

Outside of his work at The G Foundation, you’ll find Ben spending time with his two dogs, Chip and Scout.

08/28/2025

✨ Meet Marisa – Secretary of The G Foundation ✨

Marisa has been a childhood friend of Ryan’s, and this foundation holds a deeply personal place in her heart. She shares, “I would never want someone to feel the pain we’ve felt with the loss of Ryan, and if we can spread a message and help even one person, it’s worth it.” 💙

When she’s not working behind the scenes to support the mission, you can catch Marisa belting out Broadway — fun fact: she knows every single word to every song in Wicked! 🎶💚

08/27/2025

Introducing ourselves this week! Over the next few days you’ll see who we have on our amazing team!

✨Meet the Board✨

Our board is made up of passionate, dedicated individuals who bring diverse experience and a shared commitment to our mission. With backgrounds in community service, leadership, and advocacy, they guide our nonprofit with integrity, vision, and heart—ensuring we stay focused, transparent, and impactful in all we do.

✨Introducing: Danielle Carr our Director and coordinator of the entire vision of The G Foundation. ✨

When starting The G Foundation I knew I had an extremely important mission. Advocating for mental health meaning speaking up, breaking stigma, and promoting access to care for anyone who needed it. It’s about creating a world where seeking help is seen as strength, not weakness—where conversations about mental well-being are as normal as those about physical health. Everyone deserves support, understanding, and resources to thrive mentally and emotionally. Not only that but finding such an open community to talk about these things and not have it be so taboo anymore. It’s real, it’s happening, someone you may know could be struggling just to make it through the day. 💚

I hold monthly staff meetings with my lovely group of Board members to discuss different options on how we can show up for our community, how we can show up for other families who are experiencing the same loss, as well as being open to checking in on people and just say hey what can we do to help you. If you attended any of our previous fundraising events or are planning on coming this year I cannot wait to meet you, and if you see me say hi I’d love to chat! 💚

Tomorrow will be a new Board member you’ll get to meet! 💚