CHARITIES

• Child life program, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) medial center
• Child life program, Tisch Hospital at NYU Medical Center
• Donors Choose (SM)
• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training®
• National Kidney Foundation
• Operation USA
• San Francisco Firefighters Toy Program

Child Life Program
Child Life services help children and their families adjust to and understand hospitalization, illness or injury, and treatment. They provide support and put smiles on patients' faces. The Child Life Program recognizes the impact unfamiliar surroundings may have on children and offers a number of services designed to make the hospital experience as positive as possible for both the patient and the patient's family.

UCSF Medical Center*
Tisch Hospital at NYU Medical Center

Amount raised | $23,000
Letters of Donation
*Co-promoted with The Junto

Donors Choose (SM)
DonorsChoose (SM) is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack. At this not-for-profit web site, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. These ideas become classroom reality when concerned individuals, whom we call Citizen Philanthropists, choose projects to fund. For further details click here

Amount raised | $800
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Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training®
The world's largest endurance sports training program to run or walk a whole or half marathon or participate in a triathlon or century (100-mile) bike ride. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families. More than 75 percent of our expenditures is directed to research and patient services. The Society has dedicated itself to being one of the top-rated voluntary health agencies in terms of dollars that directly fund our mission.

Operation USA*
Operation USA assists developing communities in the United States and abroad in addressing problems relating to natural and man-made disasters and chronic poverty through the creation of sustainable health, nutrition and disaster response programs. We provide essential materials, training and advocacy, and financial support for these programs. Our small staff and versatility ensure that only 1-3 percent of donations cover its overhead costs - 98% of all donations are strictly for program use. Operation USA has sent over 30 tons of medical and hospital supplies designated for hospitals throughout Iraq. The supplies were airlifted to Jordan for transshipment by road to Iraq. Operation USA partners include Jordan's Noor al-Hussein Foundation and International Medical Corps. DHL Courier Service provided the aircraft.

*Co-promoted with M.A.R.S.

San Francisco Firefighters - Toy program
The San Francisco Firefighters Toy Program is the city's largest and the nation's oldest program of its kind. Since 1949, it has evolved from a few firefighters repairing broken toys and bikes for 15 families to, in 2002, 300 firefighters and friends volunteering their time to distribute over 200,000 toys to more than 40,000 disadvantaged children. Even with these impressive numbers, many families were turned away last year due to limited funds. Besides helping individual families in need, the Toy Program serves many community organizations, including shelters for abused women and children, inner-city schools, neighborhood groups, children's cancer wards, and pediatric AIDS units. We also respond on a year-round basis to displaced children who become victims of fires, floods, and other such disasters.