Miracle Flights

Our goal is to ensure that money nor distance stand in the way of a child reaching the best care for their disease. Approximately 30 million Americans are affected by a rare disease; half are children. According to the Rare Disease Foundation and Global Genes, many will not live to see their 5th birthday. It can often take up to a year to receive a proper diagnosis and treatment plan.

Miracle Flights seeks to remove the barriers to care by providing financial assistance to fly children to the treatment, follow-up care, and second opinions that they desperately need.

Miracle Flights seeks to promote the awareness of our services through targeted outreach programs; and to enlist the help of community-minded people through strategic calls to action. As such, many of our patient families have come to Miracle Flights by word of mouth.

Additionally, we work with support and other resource groups, building partnerships within the communities we serve.

We continue to build upon our strategic alliances with hospitals and treatment facilities to ensure we are in integrated part of the health care system for those seeking distant, vital medical care.

Miracle Flights is led by Mark E. Brown as Chief Executive Officer. Mark has an extensive career in the field of marketing and communications, and was formerly with the Howard Hughes Corporation, Station Casinos and was a partner with RR Partners. He has served in various capacities to nonprofit boards, and is deeply rooted in his civic and philanthropic leadership.

Miracle Flights has seen continued growth in the number of medical flight requests that are received and processed - an average of approximately 10% over the prior fiscal year. Flights are facilitated through our flights department, overseen by our Director of Flight Operations, who has been with the organization for the past 10 years.

Program outreach and partnership development is overseen by the Director of Programs and Development. This allows us to build upon the community's awareness and to continue expanding our collaboration with heath care professionals.

Over the past 35 years, Miracle Flights has become the leading nonprofit flight organization in the U.S., providing flight support to children and their family so they may reach life-saving treatment. We are proud of this accomplishment.

Recently, we have expanded our reach far beyond the U.S. In Europe alone, there are equally as many people affected with a rare disease as there are in the U.S. According to the Global Genes Project, it is estimated that approximately 350 million people worldwide suffer from a rare disease.

Miracle Flights will continue to broaden its reach so that no child, regardless of money, distance or border will stand in the way of reaching the medical care that they need.