DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION

The Dragonfly Foundation is filling an important gap in care. Hospitals must focus on research and medical care, The Dragonfly Foundation helps enhance in-hospital quality of life programs, and provides outpatient and family support from diagnosis through the patient and family's long-term recovery.

Dragonfly is completely focused on the day-to-day patient/family experience. Our goal is to bring strength, comfort and joy to the patient and the family as a whole. We want to help Dragonfly families meet the emotional, relational, and practical challenges they experience by mobilizing strengths, building relationships, bringing in community resources, and creating experiences that ease burdens, create memories and build connections.

We want to always do what we can, when we can, as often as we possibly can to help Dragonfly patients (ranging in age from birth to age 40) and their families.

-Expand our patient/family space to 15,000 sq. ft. and establish a permanent location for our base of operations
-Leverage public and community relations expertise
-Build a community of support, identify additional resources and foster a more compassionate community
-Partner with experts and companies that can provide counsel, products, services and opportunities to Dragonfly and its families
-Utilize standardized and customized technology solutions to automate processes, communicate, build connections, manage events and resources, and protect privacy while providing access to information and opportunities
-Add staff and utilize volunteers.
-Continue to partner with other non-profits to ensure we stay "on mission" and utilize resources to their best advantage
-Hire additional staff and utilize more volunteers to support to patients/families
-Hire a development director
-Partner on psychosocial research with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and continue to conduct our own research and focus groups to learn how individuals, companies, and groups can best support the needs of patients and their siblings/offspring and parents/caregivers/spouses.
-Utilize our social media and podcast followers to raise awareness about the emotional, relational, and practical challenges patients/families experience and the need to care while we wait for a cure.

The organization's Executive Director has experience in the field of public relations/communications, and is an expert in community building, public education and involvement, media relations, social media, and reputation management. All of these strengths, along with her business acumen, have enabled the foundation to exceed performance expectations. The Staff's experience, professional reputations and connections to the business community have been keys to the organization's success.

In addition, TDF benefits from an active Board, a well-respected spokesman in Hall of Fame Broadcasting legend Marty Brennaman, and a dedicated following (as of June 2020) of more than 1,000 volunteers, over 13K Facebook followers and over 3K Twitter followers, and a bevy of supporters. We continue to be a grass roots organization and have participated in/managed more than 100 community events (2019) to raise needed funds/resources. We have no time to waste.

Since 2010, we have successfully:

--implemented and maintained all programs and two patient/family spaces (located in Cincinnati)
--tripled the size of our patient/family space to 15,000 sq. ft. (see Dragonfly.org/Landing)
--published 2 books
--donated more than 50 laptops, dozens of iPads, gaming systems, coffee makers, televisions and phones to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
--donated 2-$5,000 charging stations to hospital's oncology parents lounges
--provided 3-12 patient/family event opportunities EACH WEEK
--delivered 25-35 care bags a month (valued at $200/each) to newly diagnosed patients to Cincinnati Children's Hospital
--delivered countless toys, gift and gas cards and gifts to patients and families
--held monthly luncheons inside the hospital for patients/caregivers
--held hundreds of celebrity meet and greets
--started a kindness movement with our student ambassador program
--hosted and supported camps to teach students about kindness, compassion and philanthropy