Greetings everyone in the Zombie Nation. We have partnered with the great folks over at SPIRIT Halloween Superstores to help raise awareness for their terrific charity, The SPIRIT of Children.
For more information read on...
Founded in 2006, Spirit of Children helps make hospitals less scary for kids and their families by providing fun during Halloween and funding all year long to Child Life Departments within children's hospitals.
Each year with the help of our vendor partners, Spirit sponsors and hosts Halloween celebrations in children's hospitals throughout the country. Members of the Spirit field team bring everything that's needed in order to have the best party possible from costumes to goody bags. Everything brought to the hospitals is donated by Spirit and our vendor partners. It's a remarkable event that touches thousands of pediatric patients and brings countless smiles and laughter to children who might otherwise miss out on the joy of Halloween.
Additionally, throughout each Halloween season all Spirit stores conduct in-store fundraising campaigns. This year alone we collected over $2.3 million cash and merchandise donations. All told we have raised $4.6 million for over 100 children's hospitals since 2007. What makes this program so unique is that at the end of each season, every dollar, 100% of the money collected in our stores or donated by our loyal and passionate customers and vendor partners is given to the Child Life departments.
Spirit of Children chooses to partner with and support Child Life whose main function is to provide developmental, educational and therapeutic support for children undergoing medical treatment. Trained counselors help children and their families cope with the many stresses involved when a child is in the hospital.
While each hospital is unique in their needs, the money we collect and donate to child life has been used to purchase such educational and entertainment items as laptop computers, DVD players, iPods, flat screen TVs as well as equipment and toys designed specifically for children with physical challenges. In addition to toys and equipment, money raised has been used for such things as; funding field trips, adding staff to keep playrooms open longer and on weekends or developing rehabilitative art programs to name just a few.
This year we beat our goal and collected $2.3 million in cash and merchandise donations for more than 100 children's hospitals in the United States and Canada.
For a list of the 2010 Spirit of Children partner hospitals, please click here.
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