Children's Miracle Network

Children's Miracle Network—the alliance of premier hospitals for children—is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping kids by raising funds for 170 children's hospitals across North America. Each year, these non-profit hospitals provide the finest care, research, and community outreach to help millions of children with diseases and injuries of every kind.

Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Children's Miracle Network has grown dramatically since its founding in 1983, from a televised fund raiser in a small studio to one of the world's leading children's charities, working to save and improve the lives of millions of children each year.

The 170 Children's Miracle Network hospitals are there twenty-four hours a day to help kids of every age and background overcome every imaginable disease and injury—from asthma and broken bones to cancer, sickle cell anemia, pediatric AIDS, muscular dystrophy, and serious injuries.

Thousands of special events and fundraisers are conducted year-round through a coalition of premier children's hospitals, media partners, and corporate volunteers working together to ensure healthy kids in their communities. In addition to the "Children's Miracle Network Celebration" (an annual televised fund raiser), corporate sponsors sell paper Miracle Balloons, radio stations broadcast Radiothons, and college students hold Dance Marathons—just a few of the programs generating millions of dollars each year to provide the life-saving care and crucial outreach programs kids need.

And the need is truly great. This year alone, Children's Miracle Network hospitals will provide charity care worth billions, yet these non-profit children's hospitals depend on community support to help fund their vital services.

Through its year-round efforts to help hospitalized kids, the Children's Miracle Network has raised more than $2.2 billion to date, most of which is donated a dollar or two at a time by caring individuals across North America.

—Taken from the Children's Miracle Network

How can you help?

Provide toys and dolls for kids going through trauma.
Contribute to or create video, toy, or book lending libraries or playrooms.
Help staff information booths or surgery waiting rooms.
Assist families with children who require long-term care or who live great distances from hospitals.
Support safety campaigns or parent education programs.
Purchase specific pieces of equipment.

For more information and ways you can help, check out http://www.cmn.org.