Our story

The Undefeated Charm

Creating and giving away our Undefeated Charms began as a way for our family to honor Austin’s memory and help spread joy to others and ourselves — a gift from our family to yours.

How it started

What started as a personal act of healing for us has grown into a community built on kindness, finding meaning and purpose, and sharing the gift of giving while spreading joy and inspiring hope.

Each charm is a tangible reminder that a simple act of kindness can make a profound difference. It is a way for Austin’s legacy to live on, for us to heal from our loss, and to touch lives we may never meet.

Austin brought so much light into our lives. Despite his brave, all-too-brief battle, his spirit continues to inspire us every day.

— The Undefeated Fund family

Austin as a young boy, resting his head and looking at the camera

Found a charm?

Then it is yours. Nobody is sent one and nobody buys one — they are left to be found.

If you would like to, share it on Instagram, Facebook or TikTok and tag @TheUndefeatedFund. Post a picture of your charm, follow along, and see where the others have traveled. You never have to — the charm is yours either way.

  • A Living Undefeated Charm tucked among yellow and white flowers
  • A Living Undefeated Charm held up beside red roses outside a building
  • A Living Undefeated Charm held up by the water with a riverboat and bridge behind it
  • A Living Undefeated Charm held in front of a large blue letter sculpture on a waterfront
  • A Living Undefeated Charm held up beside a fountain in a city park
  • A Living Undefeated Charm held up beside purple flowers and a bronze statue
  • A Living Undefeated Charm tucked among red snapdragon flowers
  • A Living Undefeated Charm held beside a riverfront letter sculpture under a blue sky

Charm photographs shared with us by @alevin7, @danispoopy1, @lindydumptruck and @zachnoabundance.

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The Ambassador program

Honor the memory of someone you love by helping families in the fight. Our goal is to help people going through a loss find new meaning and purpose.

  • 1
    Donate in their nameTheir name is listed on our Wall of Hope.
  • 2
    Receive an Ambassador KitCharms and stickers to give away and promote awareness. Kits are in production and ship in January 2027; your contribution is a donation, not a purchase, and does not depend on the kit.
  • 3
    Spread the messageInvite others to support the families still in treatment.
  • 4
    Join the communityConnect with other families who have turned grief into purpose.

Become an Ambassador

Support our mission

Your donation helps fund childhood cancer research, provides relief for struggling families, and spreads kindness and hope in the community. Every contribution makes a meaningful difference.

Anything you donate at theundefeatedfund.com — 100% of your donation goes to the most worthy causes we have vetted. Processing fees are covered separately.

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Undefeated Fund Inc, operating as The Undefeated Fund, is a registered 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 92-0285573, recognized as exempt effective 15 May 2025. Florida charitable solicitation registration CH85345.

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A deep navy book cover reading A Reason to Get Up, with the subtitle Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, and what that book can and cannot do after somebody dies.

Guide one · 7 pages

A Reason to Get Up

Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, and what that book can and cannot do for you after somebody dies. Who Frankl actually was, what he actually argued, and the famous quote that is not his.

Download the guide — free

PDF, 7 pages. Nothing to fill in, no email, no ask attached to it.

Three more, if you want them

These are the books we read and the things we did after we lost Austin. Not advice and not therapy — an honest account of what helped us, and what the research actually says about each of it. Every statistic in them carries a source and a year.

A deep navy book cover reading The Circling, with the subtitle The Power of Now, and what is actually happening when you cannot stop going over it.

Guide two · 9 pages

The Circling

The Power of Now, and what is actually happening when you cannot stop going over it. Includes the part no grief guide prints: meditation is not risk-free, and who should be careful.

A deep navy book cover reading Give It Away, with the subtitle Why doing something for somebody else, expecting nothing back, appears to do something for you.

Guide three · 11 pages

Give It Away

Why doing something for somebody else, expecting nothing back, appears to do something for you. With a verified list of places that will take you this week, and the ones that will ask you to wait a year.

A deep navy book cover reading The First Year, with the subtitle What has to be done, what it actually looks like, and fifty things that might help.

Guide four · 16 pages

The First Year

The practical one. What actually has to be done, what the months afterward really look like, and fifty things that might help — each one labeled for whether there is evidence behind it.

We send them by hand, usually within a day. You will get the three guides and nothing else unless you ask for it. We never sell or share your address, and every email we send has a way to stop. There is no donation ask attached to any of this. Privacy

If tonight is bad

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Call or text 988, or chat at 988lifeline.org. Free, confidential, 24 hours a day, anywhere in the US. You do not have to be in immediate danger to use it.

Crisis Text Line. Text HOME to 741741.

Veterans Crisis Line. Dial 988 then press 1, or text 838255.

If there is an immediate danger to life, call 911.

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