NORTHPORT, NY — Your next sweatshirt, jacket, sunglasses or friendship bracelet could help you fight cancer or brighten the day of a young adult battling the disease.
The Chloe Belle Foundation, a Northport-based nonprofit created in memory of Chloe Lindberg, on Wednesday launched its Eighties Beach House Collection. All proceeds from the gear, depending on which product you buy, will go to the foundation’s spring/summer fundraiser for the Southern Ocean Medical Center Oncology Fund or The Chloe Belle Foundation itself.
People can shop The Chloe Belle Foundation’s Eighties Beach House merchandise here. Free shipping is offered on all products.
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Chloe Lindberg was just 26 when she died of acute myeloid leukemia in January 2021. She fought the cancer for 13 months after she was diagnosed at age 25.
Her family started The Chloe Belle Foundation soon after with the mission of bringing joy to sick children and young adults who have been diagnosed with cancer.
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Remi Lindberg, president of the foundation and Chloe’s older sister, said the merchandise launch is something she wanted to do since the nonprofit was founded in 2021.
“It was a dream of Chloe’s to produce a collection of her own design so I feel like, in some way, I am making her dream come true,” Remi told Patch.
Some proceeds of the collection will go to The Chloe Belle Foundation and support its mission of brightening the days of kids and young adults with cancer. Other funds will go toward the foundation’s current fundraiser for Southern Ocean Medical Center’s oncology fund. Southern Ocean is a hospital in Manahawkin, New Jersey. Each item’s listing declares where the funds are earmarked for.
Remi recalled when Chloe was selling her t-shirt designs on a website and someone she did not know purchased one of her creations.
“I can clearly recall how proud and happy she was,” Remi said. “It was a beautiful feeling for me because I loved my sister in so many ways: a sister way, a soulmate way, a best friend way and a daughter way. And I felt proud of her in all those types of ways.”
Remi said she feels similarly now with the launch of the Eighties Beach House collection, which was inspired by Chloe’s favorite songs and movies from the 1980s.
Some of the items feature Chloe’s graphic art and handwriting. A sun that Chloe designed based on her love of vacationing at Long Beach Island is prominently displayed on several items, including the Endless Summer Nights zip-up hoodie (inspired by Richard Marx’s song) and the Bernie Lomax Jacket (“Weekend At Bernie’s”).
The other offerings are the “I Can Call You Betty” beach bag (Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al”), the Steve Harrington wayfarer sunglasses (“Stranger Things”) and a pair of friendship bracelets representing Long Beach Island or The Chloe Belle Foundation. Other items are on the way, as well.
“It’s the closest I feel to that feeling I had when she was alive,” Remi said. “Chloe loved music and the collection being inspired by her music playlist, Eighties Beach House is so her. And with everything I do, I want to look at it and think ‘this is so Chloe.’ And with this I do.”
The Chloe Belle Foundation has held several other fundraisers, toy drives and events for those fighting cancer. The organization raised $1,550 for Dr. Huda Salman’s cancer research and work at the Indiana School of Medicine: The Brown Center for Immunotherapy.
The current fundraiser will aid patients at Southern Ocean Medical Center, which sees more than 300 patients a month receive roughly 2,000 infusions. The hospital offers radiation therapy using TrueBeam linear accelerator, a fast, precise and low-dose radiation therapy.
Along with many rounds of chemotherapies in multiple forms, Chloe went through radiation on her eye when the leukemia spread into her spine and created a tumor behind her eye.
“It is often an uncomfortable experience with a multitude of its own side effects,” the foundation wrote. “We are enthusiastic to support advancements in radiation therapy through this fundraiser.”
It was important to Chloe to get cancer treatments so close to her home in Northport, so the foundation strives to provide those in Long Beach Island and Manahawkin the same comforts with the fundraiser.
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