Children's Miracle Network is an international non-profit organization dedicated to helping children by raising funds and awareness for 170 children's hospitals throughout North America. Each year these non-profit hospitals treat more than 14 million children afflicted with diseases, injuries and birth defects of every kind.
Children's Miracle Network's founding pledge is to put children first in all it does and keep 100 percent of donations in the community where they were raised remains at the core of its philosophy. Yet Chidren's Miracle Network has grown dramatically since its founding in 1983, when its first televised fund raiser aired from a small private studio and raised $4.7 million for hospitals.
In just 18 years Children's Miracle Network has evolved into the dominant organization actively providing better health care for millions of children through its 170 affiliated hospitals. In addition to producing the largest television fundraiser in the word, Children's Miracle network organizes and executes thousands of special events and promotions each year through its dedicated corporate sponsors and media partners.
The tremendous year-round effort is helping to save and improve the lives of children with cancer, heart defects, diabetes, AIDS, muscular dystrophy and accident trauma, to name a few. To date Children's Miracle Network has raised nearly $1.8 billion for children's hospitals--208 million dollars in the year 2000 alone. But the need is still great; in just one year Children's Miracle Network hospitals provide charity care worth billions of dollars.
The hallmark of the Children's Miracle Network is that 100 % of every dollar raised in a community stays there to help children served by participating hospitals in the local area. Children's Miracle Network hospitals treat all children regardless of affliction or the family's ability to pay.
Each year the Children's Miracle Network hospitals provide more than 2.5 billion dollars in charitable care; these non-profit children's hospitals depend on community support. Since 1983 Children's Miracle Network has raised nearly 1.8 billion dollars for children's hospitals- most of which is donated a dollar at a time by individuals throughout the US and Canada.