Ways To Help
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Individuals and businesses can support CHoR by making a donation, participating in one of our events or creating a fundraising project. Donating unrestricted funds to the hospital is the most impactful way you can help. General donations fund clinical programs, program development and enhancement, recruitment of the very best pediatric specialists, research and wherever the greatest need exists. No matter how you choose to help, all funds go directly to helping kids and families in our community.
Since 2010, Children's Hospital Foundation has paid and/or pledged over $220 million to Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU thanks to the support of thousands of members of our community. You can help us continue supporting care for children by making a gift today.
To give by mail, please make your check or money order out to Children's Hospital Foundation and send to Children's Hospital Foundation, Box 980693, Richmond, VA 23298
To make a secure online gift please click the button below.
Honor and memorial gifts
Honor or memorialize your family, friends and loved ones by making a gift to support CHoR. An honor or memorial gift is a wonderful alternative to standard gift giving and is a perfect way to honor or remember the special people in your life. Not only will your gift express your love—it'll also help give the gift of expert health care to children in need.
Contributing stocks or mutual funds to Children's Hospital Foundation is a smart and simple way to help kids in our community. You can make a gift of appreciated securities—publicly traded stocks, bonds and mutual fund shares—to CHF while avoiding capital gains tax and/or securing a stream of income. It's easy and it makes a difference.
Please let us know a gift is coming by having your broker send us a letter (electronically or by mail) with the following details:
- Your Name
- Details of the gift, including number of shares and name of security
- If the gift is restricted for any specific purpose
How it works
Contact your broker to initiate the stock transfer. Use the following data to transfer the stock to our account at Davenport & Co., LLC.
- Account Name: Children's Hospital Foundation
- DTC: 0443 (Pershing)
- Account#: DA4001503
- Contact: Marie Barte, 804.780.2000 or mbarte@investdavenport.com
Contact the Foundation at giving@chfrichmond.org for more information on how to contribute appreciated securities.
Throughout the year, businesses in Central Virginia often make gifts to support CHoR as part of a company-wide or department-wide fundraising effort. There are many ways your business can fundraise for kids in our community.
United Way
Each year, employees around Central Virginia remember Children's Hospital Foundation during their company's United Way campaign. The codes for the Foundation are 422 (Local Government and Schools), 90557 (Central Virginia Combined Federal Campaign) and 03622 (Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign). All other campaigns should write in “Children's Hospital Foundation, Box 980693, Richmond, VA 23298.”
Other fun ideas
Consider holding a simple collection or organizing a competition to see which department can raise the most money. Some businesses fundraise for the Foundation by allowing employees to wear jeans on a particular day of the year in exchange for a $5 donation. Others donate a percentage of sales revenue over a specific period of time. Work with your colleagues to come up with an idea and discover that giving back can be fun, rewarding and, in the case of “Jeans Day,” comfortable too!
Many employers sponsor matching gift programs and will match charitable contributions made by their employees. If you volunteer with us, your employer may also provide us with a gift in recognition of your service.
Search for your employer
To find out if your company has a matching gift policy, please enter your employer's name below. If your company is eligible, request a matching gift form from your employer, and send it completed and signed with your gift. We will do the rest. The impact of your gift to Children's Hospital Foundation may be doubled or possibly tripled.
Since its inception, Children's Hospital Foundation has benefited from charitable gifts of bequests, trusts and life insurance policies. In fact, Sallie May Dooley, one of our original benefactors, made a bequest of $500,000 in the 1920's which provided for the construction of the original Crippled Children's Hospital on Brook Road.
Over the years, estate gifts have allowed us to grow our endowment so that we can continue to provide for the needs of the many children we serve. Many programs at CHoR have been funded with dollars generated from our endowment, and it is because of the generosity of our estate benefactors that we are able to continue that practice.
By remembering Children's Hospital Foundation in your will, trust or other long-term plans, you will help support and advocate for pediatric initiatives at CHoR. Explore the many planned giving options available to you.
Giving through wills and living trusts
Making a charitable gift through your will can be a convenient way to leave a lasting legacy. After first providing for loved ones, you may decide to make a charitable gift of a specific amount, a percentage of your estate, or all of what remains after family and/or friends have been remembered.
Giving through a living trust is another idea to consider. Many people make use of trusts created during life to provide for the management and future distribution of assets and then, at the termination of the trust, direct a portion of the remaining assets to be used for charitable purposes.
Giving through life insurance
The need for life insurance can change as life progresses. You might have a life insurance policy that was purchased to provide for your children, but they are now self-sufficient. You can name Children's Hospital Foundation to receive all or a portion of the policy proceeds that are no longer needed for their original purpose.
Ready to take the next step?
Giving through one of the methods above helps our Foundation to grow and continue to provide much needed support for the clinical programs at CHoR. In order to ensure that your charity of choice receives your gift, it is important to use the organization's full name in your documents. To name Children's Hospital Foundation, we suggest using “Children's Hospital Foundation located in Richmond, Virginia.”
If we may be of any assistance with the charitable aspects of your plans, please don't hesitate to contact Carrie Bickford at 804.827.1850 or cbickford@chfrichmond.org
When you become a recurring donor with Children's Hospital Foundation, you help ensure that our children always have access to the best possible healthcare when they need it the most. Whether their next milestone will be taking a first step or graduating high school on time, children receiving care at our hospital can get back to what is most important thanks to your ongoing support.
Help make those milestones possible by setting up a recurring donation today.
Sample monthly recurring gifts
Your monthly donations can add up quickly. See how much you can give in the first year alone:
| Monthly Donation | Annual Total | |
| $5.00 | x 12 months = | $60 |
| $10.00 | x 12 months = | $120 |
| $20.83 | x 12 months = | $250 |
| $41.67 | x 12 months = | $500 |
| $83.33 | x 12 months = | $1,000 |
Set up your recurring donation today
Thank you for the continued support that our patients and families receive through donations. Gifts in kind support our child life, recreation therapy and Virginia Treatment Center for Children (VTCC) programs. To give items from a wish list or view more ways to support these programs, please click on the learn more button below.
In addition to supporting this work through gifts in kind, you can also make a secure online gift to directly support the child life team. Select 'child life' in the Gift Designation field on the donation link below.Make a donation today
Your gift can help continue to provide world-class health care to children and families living in our region and beyond.