MARY MOON FOUNDATION INC
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Mission Statement
Mary Moon Foundation, Inc. Helping hospitalized children feel "over the moon" with essential childhood activities. Our mission is to conduct fundraising events to help finance art supplies, toys and games for the University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital to help children enjoy life as much as every child should. We support critically ill children and their families by providing the hospital with additional resources to ease the enormous strain and effort on children and their families during the period of hospitalization. As a family that lost their daughter to cancer, Peter and Christine O’Keefe created the foundation to help support future families and their children in ways they were fortunate to be supported.
About This Cause
The Mary Moon Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Apple Valley, MN. Our organization was founded in memory of Mary Jacqueline O’Keefe, nicknamed “Moon.” Mary loved participating in arts and crafts and a variety of games and other activities while she spent a large portion of her final year in the hospital fighting neuroblastoma. Our mission is to conduct fundraising events to help finance art supplies, toys and games for critically ill children and their families by providing hospitals and children’s hospice resources to help children enjoy life as much as every child should. There are many ways to support children who are undergoing frequent medical interventions. Individuals and groups are, thankfully, giving great effort to fund research in the struggle for causes and cures of serious diseases. The efforts of our foundation are to support children who have been diagnosed with these problems. Beds are currently occupied with young children who are fighting for their lives and are restricted from activities that promote normal childhood development as well as from their families and friends. Mary and her mother, Christine, enjoyed many activities during Mary’s hospital stays. Mary participated in the hospital’s beads of courage program, and Christine continued to add beads to make bracelets and necklaces with Mary during time at home. They shared their creations with families and friends. Mary was fortunate to have a strong family support team whether that was mom’s artistic ability to make things like a chandelier from construction paper and paper towel rolls, or Grandma Jackie bringing Legos and animal figurines. We also had many friends that supported us with games and activities to help keep Mary occupied and growing cognitively. Read more: http://marymoonfoundation.org/our-foundation/