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Give Your Way

Improve care. Improve lives.

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Change a child’s life forever.

Your gift:

  • Fuels pioneering T-cell therapy to help children heal from cancer using their own immune system
  • Leads to breakthroughs for rare diseases and common childhood conditions
  • Expands mental health screenings and brain research to help kids stay on track 
  • Makes it possible for children to receive world-class care in their communities 
  • Provides compassionate, family-focused care through art, music and pet therapy 
Portrait of baby Nemo, an infant pictured snuggled in a blue blanket.

Nemo's Story

Nemo, born with a heart defect, shares his name with his family’s favorite film character, the fish with a similar issue. Today, after lifesaving surgeries, he is thriving. “Children’s National gave my son his life,” Tiffany says. “They keep doing everything they can to keep him happy, healthy and living a normal life.”

Read Nemo's Story

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Give from Your Donor-Advised Fund

A donor-advised fund (DAF) is a simple, flexible way to give. It allows you to make a charitable contribution to the fund and receive an immediate tax deduction. Then, you recommend that grants be made to us.

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Give from Your IRA 

If you're 70.5 or older, you can give up to $100,000 per year directly from your IRA to Children's National - tax free. This popular gift option maximizes the benefit to you and our patients. Simply make the request to your IRA administrator.

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Give in Your Will

Make a lifetime of difference for a child. When you include us in your will or trust, you advance pediatric care and research and make brighter futures possible.

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Give Stock 

Help our patients find hope and healing with your tax-deductible gift. Your support matters

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More Ways to Give 

What can you donate to our hospital? Almost anything! Make a gift to endow a position or program, start a fundraiser or donate items for children and their families.

Even when your world is falling apart, these nurses are right there to help pick you up. They not only save lives, they change people for the better.

- Ashley, Riley’s mom