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The Children's Fund

The Children's Fund

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Unconditional support for the most critical needs 

Imagine the possibilities if hope and healing were accelerated by unlimited resources. If the next life-saving discovery could be made more quickly with the right tools. If a community program could provide necessities to more families immediately, without worrying about cost. Imagine if all children had a chance to just be kids. 

The Children’s Fund at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is essential to powering the people, places and programs at CHOP with support that is not limited to a specific use. These unconditional funds maximize your impact by strengthening the work CHOP does to improve the lives of children, their families and our communities by touching all areas of the hospital. Your wholehearted support maximizes our impact by empowering CHOP leaders to be nimble, allowing them to address both critical needs and pursue promising, timely opportunities as they arise. Above all, you help us push the boundaries of what’s possible, so children everywhere can grow, thrive and lead healthy, happy lives.

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You are life savers. Bringing joy, compassion, warmth and smiles to precious children.

Parent of patient who received Child Life services

The Children's Fund fuels our mission by supporting programs such as:

Patient Family Care

Encouraging creativity and play in the hospital setting

Launched the Patient Technology Program, offering tech-based therapeutic activities to children including LEGO Robotics and 3D printing.

About our Child Life services

Training and Education

Building the pipeline of experts in pediatric medicine

Funded 212 fellows in the Department of Pediatrics for continuing professional education.

About our Fellowships

Research

Powering the people, resources and tools to make breakthroughs happen

Supported 14 Cell & Gene Therapy Collaborative Seed Grants, which promote early-stage development of new cell and gene therapies.

About the Cell and Gene Therapy Collaborative

Community Relations

Creating safer and healthier communities

Supported more than 12 priority-health-need community projects addressing topics such as youth homelessness, adolescent reproductive health, literacy and education, and opioid-related mortality prevention.

Explore our Community Impact Report
Contact us Melissa DeFreece defreecem@chop.edu

Because gifts to the Children’s Fund are not limited to a specific use, they allow CHOP to infuse immediate resources into urgent initiatives, touching every area of the hospital and affecting countless members of the CHOP community. Please consider donating today. Together, we can push the boundaries of what’s possible, so children everywhere can grow, thrive and lead healthy, happy lives.

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