What We Do

Founded in Northern California, our mission is to help families with rare bleeding disorders who are in need. The way we plan to make this happen is through music! While combining our passion for music and the bleeding disorder community we are making the dream of helping others while having fun a reality! Thus was born “Music For The Cause."

- Elizabeth Schauermann

Founder

My father has hemophilia, a very rare bleeding disorder, and I was born a carrier. Together we share a major passion for music and everything in the performing arts. Music has gotten my Dad through the "hematoma blues" and into a place of creation and positivity. And for me, music has brought me hope.

The dream of Music for the Cause started back in 2007. Developing a way to raise awareness of my dad's bleeding disorder is something I'm passionate about. When my first nephew was born with severe hemophilia, my dad and I started to work together, and the idea of Music for the Cause started to take shape. It wasn't until Lawson's brother Prescott was also born with severe hemophilia were we able to finally take this dream and turn it into what it is today. Music for the Cause is truly a labor of love. A way that we, as community members ourselves, can make a difference on a national level and beyond. We strive to serve and highlight our blood brothers and blood sisters, so that one day everyone in the world will have heard about the bleeding disorders community!

Here is a small glimpse into our family's life, living with hemophilia. 

Bleeding disorders are a group of conditions that result when the blood cannot clot properly. In normal clotting, platelets, a type of blood cell, stick together and form a plug at the site of an injured blood vessel. Proteins in the blood called clotting factors then interact to form a fibrin clot, essentially a gel plug, which holds the platelets in place and allows healing to occur at the site of the injury while preventing blood from escaping the blood vessel. While too much clotting can lead to conditions such as heart attacks and strokes, the inability to form clots can be very dangerous as well, as it can result in excessive bleeding. Bleeding can result from either too few or abnormal platelets, abnormal or low amounts of clotting proteins, or abnormal blood vessels.

Hemophilia is perhaps the most well-known inherited bleeding disorder, although it is relatively rare. Many more people are affected by Von Willebrand Disease the most common inherited bleeding disorder in America caused by clotting proteins. Von Willebrand disease can affect both males and females. Platelet disorders are the most common cause of bleeding disorder and are usually acquired rather than inherited.