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enCourage Kids Foundation Honoring Healthcare Heroes News provided by Share this article NEW YORK, March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Exactly one year after the cancellation of the 35 th Anniversary Gala Celebration of the enCourage Kids Foundation (EKF) and one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, EKF is celebrating its hospital partners and dedicated doctors, nurses, child life specialists, social workers and other healthcare professionals through the f...

NewsSportsEntertainmentLifestyleUSA TODAYObituariesE-EditionLegals submitted Stripes® Stores raised $197,000 through its in-store charitable fundraising campaign for Driscoll Children’s Hospital to benefit the children and youth of South Texas. Due to COVID-19, the Driscoll Children’s Hospital campaign, which usually takes place in April, took place in November 2020. The funds benefited Driscoll Children’s Hospital specialty clinics in Corpus Christi, Victoria, the Rio Grande Valley, La...

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The 18th Annual Radiothon for Kids is Thursday & Friday.

Dance Marathon registration now open Posted on: January 27, 2021; Updated on: January 27, 2021 University of South Carolina Dance Marathon registration is now open. USCDM is the largest student-run philanthropic organization on campus. It brings together students and the broader campus community to raise funds for the Child Life Program at Prisma Health Childrens Hospital, the local Childrens Miracle Network Hospital. Now celebrating its 23r...

For National Lego Day, Matt Laramie is delivering 100 Lego sets to Worcester pediatric cancer patients and kids in need Updated Jan 28, 2021; Posted Jan 28, 2021 Matt Laramie, the founder of Matt’s Lego Drive for Kids with Cancer, is aiming to donate 500 sets of Legos. He has made donations already at UMass Memorial Medical Center. Courtesy photo. Facebook Share With Thursday marking National Lego Day, Matt Laramie is continuing the effort he started with “Matt’s Lego Drive for Kids wit...

Print Michael Contreras had just laid his 8-month-old son, Ethan, down to sleep on the oncology ward of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles on Christmas Eve when a jolly red stranger appeared in the room. “I was like, ‘Oh, Santa!’” Contreras said. “I didn’t know they were going to do that due to COVID.” Having a child in the hospital is agony for any family, but having one stuck there for Christmas can be especially hard. In a typical year, L.A.s children’s hospitals are flood...

Consider this the holiday cheer you need as we close out a less than cheerful year. Santa made a special visit in the NICU at Helen DeVos Childrens Hospital to visit the tiniest patients there. In a press release via Spectrum Beat, theres over 80 babies who will be spending their first Christmas in the NICU in Grand Rapids. Santa went around and met each baby and took pictures with them and their parents. The real gifts though were the adorable babies who were dressed in tutus, bows, hats, ...