ANGELS FOR HEARTS
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Mission Statement
Angels for Hearts was founded by the Kaufman family in August of 2008. As a 501(C)(3) tax exempt non-profit, the organization’s mission is to bring normalcy to pediatric heart patients ages newborn to 18 years old while in the hospital and during their recovery. Angels for Hearts strives to remind people that heart kids are first and foremost, kids, before they are heart patients.
About This Cause
Angels for Hearts was founded by the Kaufman family in August of 2008. As a 501(C)(3) tax exempt non-profit, the organization’s mission is to bring normalcy to pediatric heart patients ages newborn to 18 years old while in the hospital and during their recovery. Angels for Hearts strives to remind people that heart kids are first and foremost, kids, before they are heart patients. Angels for Hearts’ initial focus was the Christmas holiday. Working with Child Life Specialists in the pediatric cardiac units of local hospitals heart kids in the hospital get to experience the simple joy of waking up on Christmas morning to find that Santa found them, even in the hospital, and made their wishes come true. The second phase launched in August 2009 with “When Grow Up…” This interactive party brings grownups from wide-ranging professions (e.g. Olympic athlete, chef, and scientist) to spark the children’s imaginations about who they’d like to be when they grow up. The bi-annual event is a day for families to enjoy being a together and meeting other heart families. The “Heart Kids Rock” dinner and dance party launched in 2012 for heart kids and their families to celebrate Heart Awareness Month, Congenital Heart Defect Month and Valentine’s Day. Heart Kids Rock happens every other February. The latest addition to the events calendar kicked off in February 2014 with the “I ♥ Golf” program. Golf is recommended for heart kids as a safe sport by pediatric cardiologists. For many heart kids, it is the first sport they have ever played. “I ♥ Golf” is a series of five golf clinics from February to June, hosted in partnership with The First Tee of Greater Sacramento. With the success and support from the golf community in Sacramento, it has become an yearly program giving heart kids the opportunity to learn and grow the game of golf. Angels for Hearts signature program is “Wishes, Wants & Needs” which provides Child Life Specialists with gift cards to be used at their discretion for anything pediatric heart patients may wish, want or need while in the hospital. Our ability to provide these items helps relieve parental stress and aids in the child’s recovery. The organization also provides periodic pizza parties, donates specialty items (music therapy instruments, and race car wheelchairs) and continually looks for ways to bring normalcy to heart families in the community. Angels for Hearts funding comes from personal contacts, family, friends, corporations, small businesses, and organizations in the community. Angels for Hearts started as a simple project in 2006, in 2008 Angels For Hearts it was turned into a 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt Non Profit. Since 2006, Angels for Hearts has provided gifts and donations totaling more then $350,000 to the pediatric heart patients at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (Stanford, CA), Sutter Children’s Center, Sacramento, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco (San Francisco, CA), UC Davis Children’s Hospital (Sacramento, CA) and Kaiser Hospital (Roseville, CA). For more information, please visit: www. AngelsForHearts.org Like our Facebook page: facebook.com/angelsforhearts …and on Instagram: instagram.com/angelsforhearts …and on Twitter: twitter.com/angelsforhearts …and on LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/angelsforhearts