2019-2020 Annual Report on Giving
We Stand Together
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For Hope
Suresh Gunasekaran, chief executive officer of UI Hospital & Clinics and UI Stead Family Children's Hospital, reflects on the last year and celebrates the power of giving.
Number of gifts:
17,773
Number of donors:
14,526
Raised more than:
$23.8 million
36 Children’s Miracle Network partners raised:
$7.1 million
Number of patients, from all 99 counties and 46 states:
83,407
Pediatric doctors, surgeons, and dentists:
200+
Specially trained pediatric nurses:
700+
Number of beds:
190
Whom We Serve:
For The Kids
Mason Gonzalez, who was one of our 2018 Kid Captains, became our 2019 Children’s Miracle Network Market Champion. During the past year, he has appeared in campaign materials throughout parts of Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Minnesota.
Three brothers from Eldridge, Iowa, whose newborn cousin spent five months at our hospital, have donated the proceeds from their family's sweet-corn sales to us for the past two years in a row. Drake Huffman, 10, came up with the idea in 2018, and last summer, 14-year-old Camden and 5-year-old Abe joined him in raising $400 for our patients, faculty, and staff. The boys did everything from helping their grandfather pick the corn to setting up a stand and handling sales.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, our Children's Miracle Network partner, Panda Express, delivered 28,000 single-use surgical masks—and coupons—to our faculty, staff, and employees. This was in addition to the $210,000 that the restaurant group and its customers raised for our patients in 2019.
Last year, generous donors contributed more than $8.7 million to our general fund, which supports projects that ensure an advanced level of patient care. These donations helped us provide crucial resources, including an interactive Smartboard for pediatric patients to play with during visits to the emergency room and a new dermatology laser for our Pediatric Specialty Clinic.
For The Future
Our patients who are living with epilepsy have a chance for better treatments and care thanks to a visionary couple and a student-led Iowa fundraising organization. Nate and Beth Tross, of Highland Park, Illinois, issued a matching-gift challenge and doubled University of Northern Iowa Dance Marathon’s donation of more than $522,000 in support of pediatric epilepsy research.
Tim White and Michelle LeCompte, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, are passionate about changing children's lives. They made a gift commitment totaling $4.6 million to establish the Emily White Child Psychiatry Fellow Academic Fund and the Michelle LeCompte and Tim White Neonatology Fellow Academic Fund, which they intend to turn into an endowed chair position by 2023. This donation reflects the couple’s UI connections and their desire to help premature infants. Michelle and Tim’s daughter Emily is a graduate of the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Lizzie, their other daughter, was born prematurely in 1989 and is a photographer in Des Moines. The family’s generosity will help generations of patients to come.
Carson King is a Cyclone fan who became an unexpected Hawkeye philanthropist after holding up a sign asking for beer money during the Iowa vs. Iowa State football game in 2019. He led a hugely successful grassroots fundraising campaign that united donors throughout the state and nation and raised $3 million for our hospital.
"From our family to yours, thank you!"
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