Our Mission
At Connecticut Children’s Medical Center Foundation, our mission is to support Connecticut Children’s. By bringing together patient families, donors, community members, philanthropic partners and others to raise the financial resources needed to invest in people, research, technology and state-of-the-art equipment, we can support Connecticut Children’s in providing the care our children need and deserve.
OUR IMPACT
100,000+ Children
100,000+
Each year, more than 100,000 children receive care made possible by contributions to the Greatest Need―Children's Fund.
Annual Pediatric Transports
532
Patients in need of critical-care were transported to Connecticut Children's from regional hospitals. Of that, more than 300 were NICU babies.
ED Visits
59,485
Patient visits to the emergency department, which equate to 163 per day. No one is turned away due to an inability to pay.
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Upcoming Events
Concorso Ferrari & Friends presents
Cars, Cocktails & Conversation with Skip Barber
Moderated by Todd Piro & Amanda Raus
This fabulous evening in support of Connecticut Children’s will give you exclusive access to meet & greet Skip Barber. Enjoy a night with friends, fellow car enthusiasts and Connecticut Children’s supporters while getting the inside scoop from Skip himself!
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Skip Barber
Skip Barber, Owner & President of Lime Rock Park, Lakeville, CT Born in the Philadelphia area, Skip Barber, always a “car guy,” managed to race while a senior at Harvard in the late 1950s. He won the very first race he entered. In his first professional race, Skip led world champion Jim Clark in an identical Lotus 23 for 190 miles; it was the car, not the driver, which couldn’t manage the final 10 miles. Very talented, he eventually became one of just a handful of Americans to reach Formula 1. He placed seventh in his first Grand Prix, but his other six starts, the insufficiently funded car failed. Without a ride for 1975, he temporarily left the cockpit to open up the Skip Barber Racing School, which went on to huge success and continues today under new ownership. It was in the mid-1980s that Skip first acquired a financial interest in the historic race track Lime Rock Park and in 1999, after selling the racing school, he claimed full ownership of Lime Rock Park. And, his creation of the Lime Rock Drivers Club in 2008 continues to provide the finest members-only driving facility in North America. In 2018, Skip launched the podcast Driven with Skip Barber.
Paint the Town Ferrari Red and Join Us for Concorso Ferrari & Friends.
Concorso Ferrari & Friends was created by a group of owners who wanted to use their exotic automobiles to put smiles on the faces of patients at Connecticut Children’s. Now in its 19th year, Concorso Ferrari & Friends is the signature automobile event for Southern New England. It celebrates all makes and models of Italian automobiles—from vintage Alfa Romeos, Fiats and Lamborghinis to the supercars of Ferrari, Pagani and Maserati—while raising awareness and critical funding to support Connecticut Children’s.
This is your chance to “tee it” up with Geno Auriemma, the hall-of-fame coach.
Your “round to remember” at the prestigious Hartford Golf Club will include NIKE apparel and gear, brunch, beverage and food stations, and a dinner reception hosted by special guests.
Tournament proceeds will provide funding for a specialized Emergency/NICU Transport Isolette in addition to a spinal surgery table for Connecticut Children’s.
Over the past 16 years, the tournament has raised more than $1.6 million for Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. Thank you Coach Auriemma, our dedicated committee and all of our sponsors!
“Inspired by a wish to give back, if only in a small way, and help others facing a cancer diagnosis in a child.”
Celebrate the life of Jacob Osit, who lost his battle with Neuroblastoma at the tender age of 10. Playing in his memory supports research at Connecticut Children’s, the Jimmy Fund, and programs at The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. The tournament fills both 18-hole courses at Blackledge Country Club and offers numerous prizes, auction and raffle items. Dinner guests are welcome to join the golfers in the clubhouse at 4 pm for the reception.
Your day of golf includes: door prizes, lunch, buffet dinner and official GFTK apparel!
Prizes awarded on each course for:
- Top 3 teams
- Closest to the Pin
- Closest to the Line
- Hole-in-One
- 50/50 raffle
- The world famous Golf Ball Toss!
At Golf Fore the Kids, we support the Cancer Clinical Trials program at Connecticut Children’s. The program provides novel therapeutic options for children with Neuroblastoma and other childhood solid tumors by developing personalized therapies to target the individual patient’s specific genetic makeup.
Golf Fore the Kids was inspired by a wish to give back, if only in a small way, and help others facing a cancer diagnosis in a child. It began with the compassion and kindness that we witnessed as our son Jacob was undergoing his treatment. It was exhibited with empathy for Jacob’s battle and the impact it would have on our family and continued with donations of gift cards, movies and games from people we never even met. It was charity in its most pure sense and helped us endure during a very difficult time.
As a result of this experience, Golf Fore the Kids began in 2003 to help kids battling cancer. As we move on to our 17th year, we continue to be overwhelmed by both the number of children diagnosed with cancer each year (over 13,000) and the endless support needed to help these kids get better and back to the business of just being kids.
We understand that finding a cure for childhood cancer is a monumental task but together we can do the little things that build the momentum needed to find a cure. So we focus on practical things like establishing a charity golf event, trail run and mini-golf event. Your support of these events through either participation or donating will help make a difference and improve the life of a child battling cancer.
100% of the proceeds all Golf Fore the Kids event are donated to help kids with cancer and 100% of your donation is tax deductible. We sincerely hope that you will support our continued efforts in the battle against childhood cancer.
Help kids like Myer
Myer is one tough cookie.
A few months after his sixth birthday, he endured an eight-hour neurosurgery, a seven-day hospital stay and a grueling four-month-long recovery. In 2015, headaches and vision problems gave way to a cascade of unusual symptoms that brought Myer and his parents to Connecticut Children’s.