BREANNA'S GIFT

The goal of Breanna's Gift is to reach as many children with cancer and other serious illnesses as possible with our arts program of dance, visual arts, music and performing arts. The classes are taught at health care residences and children's hospitals to provide an opportunity for seriously ill children and their families to step away from the daily routine of a sick child. To provide an opportunity to create and to be able to forget about the IV's, therapies, etc.

Breanna's Gift programming is free to all participants & facilities.
Strategies are to select artist/teachers & volunteers who are creative, gentle spirited & flexible & able to provide opportunities for creativity & can adjust to special needs of children. The kids are taught classes at Children's Minnesota in Minneapolis and Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare. Artist/teachers present projects to follow along & do from their hospital rooms via closed circuit programming. Increasing Art Takeout from 8 projects to more. Art Takeout and Art Take2 programming allows us to reach children & their families unable to leave their rooms. Projects and/or videos are also sent to hospitals where our classes are not taught, such as Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, Mayo Eugenio Litta Children's Hospital in Rochester, MN. , Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, FL. Medical City Children's Hospital in Dallas, TX & American Family Children's Hospital in Madison, WI.

Our current staff and funding resources allows us to accomplish our goals. To continue our program and to grow, we look to raise more funds through our annual fundraising event, third party events, grant opportunities and in-kind gifts of goods and services. This will give us the capability of increasing the number of artist/teachers and volunteers that work in our program; thus allowing us the privilege of working with a larger population of children. We will be capable of adding time spent at each location with additional classes on more hospital floors; of partnering with and expanding our presence via hospital closed circuit programming opportunities; offering more variety by partnering with and sponsoring live performances for the children and their families at all of our locations; looking for additional partnering opportunities such as bringing our program to summer camps for children with cancer; and expanding Art Takeout and Art Take2 to more hospitals across the country.

We have been able to make steady progress in all areas of the program. We have increased revenue each year, allowing us to increase our program reach. Over the last year, we have increased our reach by expanding our Art Takeout and Art Take2 programming to three new healthcare facilities: Children's National Hospital in DC, Crescent Cove children's hospice in Brooklyn Park, MN, and Cleveland Clinic.