“Pennies from Heaven” SLICFiber gives Kelly’s Angels Largest Single Donation in their History

In February 2026, internet provider SLICFiber announced that as part of their expansion into Saratoga County, they would do things differently. 

The wires would be pink and for every new customer, the company would set aside $25 for a local cancer-related charity, Kelly’s Angels. 

In the seven months since the announcement, the money has been adding up and on Sept. 29, SLICFiber made their first donation to Kelly’s Angels at the Saratoga Spa State Park. The company donated $16,850 to the charity, the largest single donation in the 16-year history of Kelly’s Angels.

“The one thing that was really important to us is that if we were going to do this, that it had to be a meaningful donation,” Kevin Lynch, CEO of SLICFiber said. “We didn’t want it to just be a token.” 

The initiative began on February 4 with the first installation of the pink cable in Mechanicville, the first customer being the Mechanicville-Stillwater Chamber of Commerce. The cable is unique to SLICFiber and was developed by Sterlite Technologies (STL). While developing a new color may not sound like much, Lynch said that it took a lot of work to develop a pink cable that could stand up to the same conditions as the traditional black color. 

“Initially they’re like, ‘oh yeah, we can do pink,’ and then it turned out to be a little bit more involved with that,” Lynch said. “But their engineering team got really excited behind it as well.” 

As part of their contribution to the campaign, STL took on the cost of developing the cable at no additional cost to SLIC. 

Mark Mulholland, WNYT-TV anchor and founder of Kelly’s Angels, said that the donation represents the largest contribution to the charity since its founding. 

“This is pennies from heaven,” Mullholland said. “To have an organization like SLICFiber to say ‘hey we want to support you no strings attached just because we’re committed to the community and we see that you’re committed to the community,’ there’s nothing better than that.”

Mulholland started Kelly’s Angels after the death of his wife Kelly Mullhulland. Kelly died in 2007 of breast cancer. The objective of Kelly’s Angles is to support those who’ve lost a parent to cancer. 

“We came up with this idea to bring smiles to the faces of children who are left behind. We send them on trips,” Mullholland said. “We send them to Disney, Universal. We send them to Yankees games. We give them backyard bouncy houses. Whatever they want to do to bring smiles to their face, they choose.”

Since it’s founding, the charity has allocated over a million dollars to these efforts, Mullholland said and is all volunteer. 

The Sept. 29 donation won’t be the last as the campaign is still ongoing, Lynch said.

Correction: An earlier version of this article had the incorrect first name of SLICFiber CEO Kevin Lynch. We apologize for the error.