Giving Thanks on World Humanitarian Day
At 20 weeks, a pregnant mother contracted COVID-19. Lorena Granados and her baby were in grave danger. A team of Stanford specialists from cardiovascular intensive…
Category: In the News
You Helped Caroline Ring the Golden Bell
Six-year-old Caroline stepped up to the pole festooned with yellow, orange, and pink streamers and grabbed the rope attached to a very special golden bell….
Your Impact on Research: Fall 2021
Dear Friends, Your support of the Children’s Fund is helping to create a more diverse research community on the Stanford campus. Funded in large part…
VIDEO: Willie’s Wish
Meet Willie, 7-year-old bike lover, big brother, and a kidney transplant patient at our hospital. When he found out he was granted a wish from…
WATCH: New Bass Center Director Gives Inspiring Vision for Cancer Cures
Donors are an integral part of a team of cancer-fighters, explained Tanja Gruber, MD, PhD, the new director of the Bass Center for Childhood Cancer…
Transforming Loss into Life
How one family’s tragedy advanced newborn care worldwide. Christopher Hess lived only a short while, but he has saved countless lives. That’s because Christopher’s legacy…
Repairing Broken Hearts
Mark Skylar-Scott, PhD, joins BASE, Stanford’s new multidisciplinary initiative to cure congenital heart defects. It’s a futuristic 3D printing system—one of only two in the…
Confronting Racism Head-on
With donor support, new research aims to reduce health disparities. Longstanding, underlying health disparities in America became even more apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic in…
A High-Stakes Decision
The Makhzoumi family chose Packard Children’s for their son’s care and their philanthropic support. Kate and Mohamad Makhzoumi say they felt a mixture of “shock…
2020 Report on Giving
During an unprecedented year, you and 11,966 other donors gave a total of $103 million to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and the child and…