Madisons Foundation - Moms And Dads In Search Of Needed Support
Madisons Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality and quantity of information available to parents of children with rare, life-threatening diseases, and to facilitating effective communication among parents, physicians and medical experts.
Our Values
Our core value is that information IS support. We believe helping parents make informed decisions can alleviate some of the frustration they inevitably experience when fighting for their children's lives.
Our Accomplishments
Madisons Foundation's most influential accomplishments lie in the areas of research and program development. We donate yearly to hospitals across the country to support research into rare pediatric diseases. We also facilitated a $200,000 donation to Emerging Therapies Initiative in Pediatric Oncology at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, which provides clinical trials for children.
Our Connecting Parents program creates a personal network of support by connecting parents whose children have the same rare disease. As of January 2007, over 1,000 parents have joined the Connecting Parents database.
Our website is a free, online community with information for parents about rare, life-threatening diseases in children, and connections to other parents fighting the same diseases. The m-Power Rare Disease Database, updated by UCLA medical professionals, contains 522 entries and grows daily.
News
On Saturday, May 24th, 2008, MADISONS Foundation, sponsored by Tween Brands, held our 3rd annual Kids for Kids event in New Albany, OH. More than 200 guests came out to the fun-filled pool party and movie premiere, starring Nickelodean tween star Aria Wallace, aka: Roxy Hunter. The kids who came out got a chance to receive autographs from Aria, as well as play games, enjoy the moonbounce and facepainting, AND glide down one of the pools two exciting water slides. It truly was a memorable Memorial Weekend and one of our most enjoyable Kids for Kids events to date!
All proceeds for this event went to Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH and MADISONS Foundation.
A special thank you to Ron and Patti Sykes, the Ohio fundraiser coordinators and beloved friends and supporters of MADISONS Foundation.
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