Boston Children's Hospital Every Child Fund

When you support the Every Child Fund at Boston Children’s Hospital, you help develop healing therapies, uncover cures for childhood diseases and meet the needs of countless families in distress. As the world changes, our priorities change with it. Crises arise. Opportunities appear. And through it all, our Every Child Fund donors are with us – you are a vital resource in an unpredictable world.

With your generosity, Boston Children’s is able to continue caring for our patients near and far, while also continuing life-savingresearch:

Supporting the Community

Children who grow up in poverty face tremendous obstacles – homelessness, inferior schools, violence and loss. They suffer illness and injury at higher rates than kids from more affluent families and are statistically less likely to receive treatment. As a safetynet hospital, we serve more low-income children than any other provider in the Boston area. Your unrestricted support provides comprehensive primary care to more than 22,000 underserved children and sustains community programs that curtail obesity, asthma and emotional and behavioral disorders in Boston and beyond.

Advancing Research

Boston Children’s operates the world’s largest pediatric research enterprise—an engine that produces and shares knowledge at an unparalleled rate. Our physician-scientists are pursuing new treatments for hundreds of pediatric diseases and collaborating with experts around the globe to bring these solutions to the children who need them most. Your philanthropy equips scientists with state-of-the-art technology and gives us the flexibility to act on new research opportunities when they surface.

Without the support donors like you, none of this would be possible. From all of us at Boston Children’s – thank you!

The Every Child Fund, which is Boston Children’s Unrestricted Philanthropic Fund, supports the hospital’s greatest needs in patient care, research, medical education/training and community health initiatives. Given the increasing demand on pediatric health care and continued challenging economic times, the Every Child Fund is a critical resource for the hospital’s executive leadership to direct funds for high priorities/critical needs.

When parents seek treatment for a child who is ill, they hope for exceptional care – treatments employing state of the art technology based on sound science. They need compassion – a place of comfort to alleviate anxiety, fear and pain. They expect expertise – a hub of excellence, where the world’s leading specialists work tirelessly to invent better treatments and cures. Boston Children’s Hospital is that place – where world class, compassionate care and research come together to offer hope for young patients and families.

Your support of the hospital’s programs helps us meet a growing number of requests for assistance, resources and services while keeping our commitment to innovation and excellence.

In Our Community and Around the Globe

Boston Children’s Hospital serves children globally and throughout the United States, with a local community focus in greater Boston. Children’s serves as the safety net for New England's kids, caring for 90% of Massachusetts’ sickest kids, and more than 50% of all pediatric patients hospitalized in Boston. In addition, a third of the children who come to Children’s are uninsured or have public coverage, which makes us the largest provider of health care to low-income children in our state.

Beyond the walls of the hospital, Boston Children’s extends care into the surrounding low-income communities of Boston providing important and relevant prevention and outreach services. Philanthropy ensures that we can continue to assist these families with extraordinary needs, provide case management services and address the health issues most impacting our children like childhood obesity and nutrition, asthma, mental health, cardiac care, neurology/child development and injury prevention/trauma.

Your gift empowers us to continue caring for children and families both here in Boston, and around the world. Thank you for your support of Boston Children’s Hospital!