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The Rellogg Mission

For the longest time we felt like you had to be someone famous or rich to give to charity. While
it always seemed like a good idea and a nice thing to do, it seemed beyond our reach to think
much about raising money for others as we were struggling to make a living ourselves. We
admired our friends in the band 'Dispatch' who did so much good in the world and we looked
up to those in the mainstream music industry who used their influence to make a difference
in the lives of those less fortunate. Still, we lacked a fundamental understanding about what
happens to people who give. We missed the simplicity in the statement, "the longest journey
begins with a single step"...or from the great TV show The Office..."I'd rather be at the bottom
of a ladder I want to climb, then at the top of one I don't." It's easy to miss these things and get
wrapped up in all there is "to do".

Then, largely through touring, a few things happened in 2006 that changed our point of view.
First, we played at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and met some people from the Clif Bar
company. They make energy bars and started sending us their product, which we started
handing out at shows. Shortly thereafter I read the story of their company, told through the
eyes of their CEO, Gary, and I had an epiphany about the kind of band I wanted to be in.
One where in addition to making a living, we had a point of view, real beliefs and donated our
time and resources to those things that we believed in. After all, here we were driving endless
laps around the United States and playing for hundreds if not thousands of people every week,
building a community of people who at least shared similar taste in music, if not much more.
Surely there had to be more for us to talk about than my overly stereotypical hatred of the
Hollister customer service policies and the queen of Australia. I shared my thoughts with
everyone on our team and the thing snowballed. We all wanted to do something grand and
meaningful with our lives, so why not start right away. But what and how?

Later that same tour, we drove through Memphis, Tennessee. We couldn't find a gig and had
decided that two areas we'd like to give more in were children and military. To this day we are
working to get more involved with the military and what we might do as entertainers for that
branch, but our opportunity to do some good for children came last November. With no gig
available, our manager, Steve Bursky, offered our services to the St. Jude Children's Hospital.
They accepted and our lives were forever transformed. Seeing joy that wasn't built on vanity
but dignity, seeing little ones with so much to be angry or sad about who were so much less
angry or sad than me...it just put things in perspective. That day SK6ers developed the
Rellogg Foundation concept where we would auction off personal items and donate the
proceeds to the charities of our individual choices, based on what we cared about. That is of
course only the beginning, we're thinking out loud here...but to date the Rellogg foundation
has donated to several charitable organizations including St. Jude, The Make a Wish
Foundation, The Raptor Trust, Johns Hopkins University and a host of others. We've donated
thousands of dollars and have had the privilege of performing for some of the most lovely
audiences in our half decade of performance. We hope to take this foundation much further
than our annual holiday auction and hope that we might inspire you to give a little something
via our website. Below is a form where you can communicate with us and make donations to
a number of organizations. Thank you for taking the time to go beyond the music with us.

Sincerely,
SK, Kit, Boots and Soucy

----Why Rellogg?

Rellogg is little hot pepper stuffed animal. He was a gift to SK from Aliea Wallace. She
designed him after he autographed her cd by accidentally signing "Stephen Rellogg". Rellogg
has been on stage for more then 500 shows and has traveled with SK for more than half a
decade. He reminds us of where we came from and that it's all just fun, not to be taken too
seriously - It has to be fun. In his honor we take people who are down on their luck and try to
give a little 'fun' in our own SK6er way via our faithful mascot Rellogg.