Mission Statement
HopeKids provides ongoing events, activities, and a powerful, unique support community for families who have a child with cancer or some other life-threatening medical condition. We surround these remarkable children and their families with the message that hope is a powerful medicine.
Impact and Programs
Accomplishments
Our HopeDay program of events ensures our HopeKids always have something to look forward to rather than dwelling on what they are dealing with now; chemo, hospital stays, surgeries, therapy etc. Our 5 impact areas are "hope & anticipation" looking forward to the future, "family focus" family spending valuable time together, "community & support" our families meeting families & kids just like them, "safety & acceptance" at our events everyone understands, "economic support" all our events are free. In 2022, our six chapters (AZ, CO, KC, MN, TN, TX) provided 2,648 program events (up 8% from 2021) to 5,557 families. 2022 total program attendance exceeded 60,252 people (up 20% from 2021). In 2022 we enrolled 509 new families to the program (up 69% from 2021) and our passionate volunteers helped us by providing more than 7,721 hours of service.
Current Goals
Grow programming across all chapters in a manner that maximizes impact while increasing efficiencies, increasing application rate by 25%, building larger chapters to focus growth in large-capacity events, refining and improving new virtual programming, improving program software capabilities, launching new North Carolina chapter, and build chapter metrics dashboard for statistical analysis.
Community or Constituency Served
Families who have a child aged between 0-18 that has a life-threatening medical condition.
Geographic Area Served
We have chapters located in Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, Kansas City, Middle Tennessee, North Carolina, and North Texas.
