Emilio Nares Foundation
We help families navigate through their child's journey with cancer.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
ENF programs fill some of the most egregious gaps in mainstream healthcare that low-income families face daily. These include transportation to and from their treatments (Ride with Emilio), healthy nutrition (Emilio's Healthy Snack Bags), easy navigation to additional community services (ENF Family Resource Center), guided stress relief to help heal and cope (Creating for Hope knitting, sewing and crocheting), and sadly, facing and paying for the death of a child due to cancer. Funds may include dealing with the impact of lost wages when a parent will not leave their dying child's bedside for weeks at a time, burial costs, and emergency funds (End of Life Child and Family Care). Finally, Emilio’s Loving Tabs® improve the chemotherapy treatment process for children and medical providers. The Emilio Nares Foundation is the ONLY outside nonprofit granted program space inside Rady Children's Hospital; a testament to the value and trust placed in ENF programs and staff.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Ride With Emilio
What began with ENF's co-founder driving families to and from life-saving cancer treatments in his own car steadily grew into a movement much bigger than any one person.
Today Ride With Emilio provides free transportation for underprivileged children and their parents to and from the hospital for cancer-related appointments. Some patients travel to an annual check-up to make sure their cancer didn’t return, while others use the service daily.
Our mission is to ensure no child misses a life-saving cancer treatment due to a lack of transportation throughout Southern California, including San Diego County, Imperial County, and Los Angeles County. Our goal is to bring Ride With Emilio to cities across the country. Ride With Emilio travels nearly 100,000 miles a year and in 2021 reached the 1.2 million mile mark and has served over 6,000 families since its inception.
Emilio's Loving Tabs Healing Shirts
ENF Loving Tabs are specially designed to facilitate access to medical devices without requiring a scared child to remove their garment. The fabric is breathable, soft, and warm against tender skin. ENF's VP of Programs designed the t-shirt to easily open with tabs on the shoulder, enabling medical providers to access the permanent catheter port positioned in the child’s chest to receive chemotherapy treatment, take blood samples and other procedures.
For children, lifting or removing their shirts several times a day for required procedures creates unnecessary stress and fear. ENF Loving Tabs Healing Shirts enable a sense of normalcy and comfort when children are receiving grueling chemotherapy.
Where we work
Awards
Hero 2013
CNN
External reviews
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Emilio Nares Foundation
Board of directorsas of 04/27/2023
Christine Lazott
Children's Health Plan of California
Term: 2021 - 2023
Elizabeth Brann
Paul Hastings
Nate Beasley
San Diego Gulls
Maria Blaine
Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices
Jack Corrao
Corrao Group
Michele Greer
Centene Corporation
Chris Larson
Roku, Inc.
Gregg Wolfson
Local Media San Diego
Victor Wong, MD
Rady Children's Hospital
Andy Zlotnik
Zlotnik Law
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
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CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
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