Children's Miracle Network
Change Kids' Health. Change the Future.
Mission
Children's Miracle Network saves the lives of children by raising funds and awareness for local children's hospitals.
Ruling year
1983
President & CEO
Teri Nestel
Main address
205 West 700 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84101 USA
Formerly known as
Osmond Foundation, For the Children of the World
EIN
87-0387205
NTEE code
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (E12)
Hospital (Specialty) (E24)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Children’s healthcare is underfunded. Insurance and government programs do not come close to covering the full cost of caring for kids, so children’s hospitals rely on donations to make up that funding gap. That’s where Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals comes in. Through national fundraising programs and partnerships with close to 100 corporate brands, the organization rallies communities to raise funds for local children’s hospitals. In 2018, more than $409 million was donated to 170 children’s hospitals across North America, funding charitable care, treatments, equipment, and research.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Children's Health Care Programs
Children's Miracle Network Hospitals is a non-profit organization dedicated to saving and improving the lives of children by raising funds for children's hospitals across North America. Each year the 170 Children's Miracle Network hospitals provide the finest medical care, life-saving research and preventative education to help millions of kids overcome diseases and injuries of every kind.
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Children's Miracle Network has grown dramatically since its founding in 1983, from a televised fund raiser in a small studio to one of the world's leading children's charities helping more than 10 million kids each year.
The 170 Children's Miracle Network hospitals are there 24 hours a day to help kids of every age and background overcome every imaginable disease and injury-from asthma and broken bones to cancer, heart defects, pediatric AIDS, muscular dystrophy and serious injuries. These children's hospitals are also on the front lines of preventing disease and injury through research, education and outreach programs that keep millions of kids out of the hospital each year.
Thousands of special events and grassroots fund raisers are conducted year-round through the network of children's hospitals, media partners and corporate volunteers working together to ensure healthy kids in their communities. In addition to "Children's Hospital Week," Live-athon from Orlando, Florida, corporate sponsors sell paper Miracle Balloons, radio stations broadcast Radiothons, and college students hold Dance Marathons-just a few of the programs generating millions of dollars each year to provide the life-saving care and crucial services kids need.
And the need is truly great. This year alone Children's Miracle Network hospitals will provide charity care worth billions, yet these children's hospitals depend on community support to help fund their vital services.
Through its year-round efforts to help kids, Children's Miracle Network has raised more than $6 billion to date, most of which is donated a dollar or two at a time by caring individuals across North America.
Where we work
Awards
Golden Halo Award (Nonprofit) 2014
Cause Marketing Forum
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Amount of funds raised to help kids at member hospitals
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Children's Health Care Programs
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric represents the combined efforts of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and its partners to help kids at member hospitals.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals’ goal is to ensure local children’s hospitals are fully funded so that all kids have the care they deserve. In turn, their families and communities are healthier.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals has two complementary strategies: raising awareness among the general public about the philanthropic needs of children’s hospitals and raising funds for local children’s hospitals through programs and brand partnerships.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals has developed fundraising programs that engage brands’ employees and communities (including gamers and college students) around the cause of local children’s hospitals. This, married with a content marketing strategy that focusing on storytelling and reaching target audiences, has made Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals a leader in partnering with corporate brands to meet their social responsibility goals while making a vital impact on local communities. Member hospitals are fully engaged, supporting fundraising efforts in their communities.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since 1983, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals has raised more than $7 billion for children’s hospitals across North America — increasing its fundraising each year and supporting 170 children’s hospitals in 2019. Charitable belief and donor intent for children’s hospitals are at an all-time high: 54 percent and 29 percent, respectively, according to brand research commissioned by Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in 2019.
Looking ahead: The needs of children’s hospitals continue to far outweigh the dollars raised. To raise more funds for local children’s hospitals, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals is seeking to elevate its vision and more broadly identify its social impact.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Children's Miracle Network
Board of directorsas of 06/21/2023
Mr. Rick Merrill
Cook Children's Health Care System
Term: 2021 -
Nana Mensah
Chairman & CEO, XPORTS, INC.
Rick Merrill
President & CEO, Cook Children's Health Care System
Barbara Walczyk Joers
President & CEO, Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare
Marie Osmond
Children's Miracle Network
Kimberly Cripe
President & CEO, Children's Hospital Orange County
Mike Mischler
Retired EVP, CBS Television Distribution
Barbara Nicklaus
Founder & Chair, Nicklaus Children's Healthcare Foundation
Jenny Love Meyer
EVP & Chief Culture Officer, LOVE’S TRAVEL STOPS & COUNTRY STORES
Philip Salerno III
President & Chief Development Officer, CHILDREN’S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
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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