Program & Proceeds Information

The Kids Cards Project, a program of the N.C. Children’s Promise raises funds for the benefit of
pediatric patients and their families at North Carolina Children’s Hospital. Through the sale of
cards and other items featuring the artwork of patients of the hospital, Kids Cards aims to heighten
public awareness about the special care, attention and needs of seriously ill children. Proceeds from the
sale of all Kids Cards merchandise are used to fund novel and unique programs whose goals are to
enrich the lives of our pediatric patients.

Since its inception in 1985, Kids Cards has funded such programs as: camperships for burn victums,
bilingual educational materials, special car seats for children in full body casts; and memory book
supplies for neonatal and pediatric intensive care units.

There are many ways to help the Kids Cards Project provide these unique and special programs for our pediatric patients. We welcome donations of time, goods and services and funds to help Kids Cards fulfill its mission. Kids Cards is a part of the Medical Foundation of North Carolina under North Carolina Children's Promise and a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. Kids Cards is looking for partners to assist us with our marketing and advertising efforts across the state as well as corporate/business sponsors of the program. Please visit the Kids Cards THANKS page. In addition to helping the patients at North Carolina Children’s Hospital, all of the sponsorship options provide immeasurable positive exposure for the supporter throughout North Carolina and beyond. For more information, please contact Kids Cards or N.C. Children's Promise at www.ncchildrenspromise.org.

Kids Cards contact information:
Amanda Ballew, Marketing and Business Manager
Kids Cards
P.O. Box 3461
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
1-800-842-6004
919-401-5452
infor@kidscards.org

About N.C. Children's Promise

The North Carolina Children’s Promise , a statewide initiative, is a year-round campaign to promote
North Carolina Children’s Hospital. Its mission is to secure financial and community resources to provide comprehensive, family-centered health care for the children of North Carolina and the surrounding States.

Unrestricted, private support of the N.C. Children’s Promise helps the hospital:

• Provide advanced comprehensive care to children from all 100 counties in North Carolina, regardless of ability to pay.
  
• Maintain a family-focused child-friendly environment, while providing state-of-the-art care for children with complex life-threatening health problems.
• Continue cutting research that assures new and improved discoveries for treating childhood diseases.

For more information visit www.ncchildrenspromise.org.

N.C. Children's Promise contact information:
Crystal Hinson Miller, MA, CFRE
Director of External Affairs and Communications
North Carolina Children’s Hospital
919-966-5812
919-843-4155
1-866-9-NC-KIDS
hinsonmiller@med.unc.edu

North Carolina Children's Hospital

Children who are sick or injured receive the most advanced, comprehensive care at the N.C. Children's Hospital. The hospital's medical staff includes UNC faculty clinicians, many who developed or refined the very treatments they provide to North Carolina's sick children. N.C. Children's Hospital has the physicians, staff and facilities to care for seriously ill children who require complex care. The N.C. Children's Hospital has excellent physicians in all of the pediatric and pediatric surgical subspecialties and brings together a multidisciplinary team to deal with virtually any disease or disorder.

The North Carolina Children’s Hospital is recognized nationally as a leader in treating children with cystic fibrosis and other respiratory disorders, hemophilia, sickle cell disease, cancer, heart disease, and trauma, including severe burns. UNC also specializes in treating children with gastrointestinal disorders, infectious diseases, birth defects and problems of growth and development.

For more information visit www.unchealthcare.org/site/NCChildrensHospital/

Requests for Funding

Fund requests are evaluated annually by the Kids Cards Advisory Board which is comprised of UNC Hospitals staff as well as members of the community at large. Proceeds from the sale of Kids Cards are disbursed annually through N. C. Children's Promise. Any hospital employee is welcome to submit a request for funds. Therapists, nurses and others who work with patients are encouraged to apply for funds to improve their patient's experiences.

The following is a list of projects funded over the past few years:

• English and Spanish Patient Education Safety Videos
  
• Educational material for Sickle Cell patients and families
  
• Grief materials for Pastoral Care to use while counseling patients
  
• Transportation and food costs for nine families to spend a week at a donated beach house
  
• Toys for the Urology outpatient clinic
  
• Notebooks for the N.C. Baby Guide
  
• English and Spanish educational materials for parents of children with Spina Bifida
  
• Weekly visits by Mr. Rainbow the Clown to the Pediatric Oncology outpatient clinic and the playroom
  
• Respite care for families of cardiac surgery patients living within 50 miles of UNC
  
• Patient-Family Educational notebooks for Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
  
• New computer for the hospital school
  
• Camp fees for burn victims and kidney transplant patients
  
• Special car seats for children with full-body casts
  
• Child sized CPR dummy
  
• Activity cabinets for Physical Therapy treatment gym
  
• Stuffed animals for UNC Air Care to give to patients being transported to UNC
  
• The annual Newborn Critical Care Center Reunion
  
• Little wagons that have integrated IV poles so parents don’t have to struggle to pull an IV pole and wagon while taking their child for a walk
  
• Activity tables with train sets for waiting areas of three pediatric floors
  
• Colorful and cartoon bandages and stickers for outpatient clinics
  
• Digital photography supplies for use by Newborn Critical Care Center families to take photos of their babies
  
• CPALS Program (An organization that pairs a student 'pal' with a Hematology/Oncology patient)
  
• Expansion of Family Resounce Library for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit
  
• Puppets for use in the Hospital School for rainforest education unit

For Staff: 2007-2008 Grant Request Forms

Join Our Mailing List