Although the KS95 for Kids Radiothon happens over one weekend each year, there are ways you can help support Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare and Children's Cancer Research Fund throughout the year. And it's never too late or too early to help.
Whether it's asking your child's school or your business to gather loose change for Change for Kids, donating an eAuction item, volunteering, or considering becoming a corporate sponsor, there are many ways to be involved throughout the year.
Everything you do helps. At Gillette, KS95 for Kids contributions support areas where the organization needs it most, in providing for things that often are not covered by insurance. For instance, your gift will help ensure that every child who dreams of being more independent can receive the care and equipment they need to do so. It will help support Gillette's Mobile Outreach Clinics that log thousands of miles each year, traveling statewide to provide medical care to people who would otherwise have to travel hundreds of miles to come to Gillette. It will help ensure that children who are in the hospital, be it for days, weeks or months, have a wide variety of educational and social activities to keep them involved. And it helps ensure that Gillette remains at the forefront of medical treatment, technology, education and research for children with disabilities.
KS95 for Kids donations enable Children's Cancer Research Fund to continue its support of cutting-edge research conducted by the University of Minnesota Cancer Center. Funds will help advance research efforts for the following programs: Immune-Based Therapies, Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation, High-Risk Malignancies, Brain Tumor Research, Epidemiologic Research, Hematologic/Metabolic Disease Transplantation and a Childhood Cancer Survivorship Study. Funds have also been used to fund Care Partners, a quality-of life program for pediatric cancer patients and families at the University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview. Under Care Partners, a portion of past Radiothon dollars were used to construct a new kitchen and lounge at the U of M Children's Hospital.
