Pile of Puppies (POP)
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Mission Statement
Pile of Puppies exists to remind all children with an extra physical challenge in life that there is light within the darkness and joy in the most challenging times. Our motto is Joy Heals, and we have seen evidence of this throughout our community.
About This Cause
Pile of Puppies (POP) is a 501(c)(3) organization whose sole purpose is to bring joy to chronically and terminally ill children and their families in the Portland Metropolitan area by surrounding them with a pile of puppies. Founder and Executive Director, Jennifer Thompson Trepanier was once a chronically ill child. She took her love for animals (especially dogs) and her passion for helping those with health challenges (Master’s in Psychophysiology) and bridged them together to create Pile of Puppies. POP was created to remind all children who have been given an extra physical challenge in their life that within darkness there is light and there is joy even in the hardest of times. Our motto is, "Joy Heals" and we have seen evidence of this throughout the communities we serve. POP partners with Doernbecher's Children’s Hospital, Candlelighters, Ronald McDonald House and Providence among other organizations to identify children and their families who want to have a joy experience in the midst of the challenges they face. POP has brought piles of puppies to individual homes, to the Ronald McDonald residence and Providence Center for Medically Fragile Children.