Preferred Charities: As a preferred charity, partnering organizations commit to provide various in-kind promotion and access benefits. In exchange, Key Club International encourages local club support via fundraising and service projects.
Since 1997, Key Club has participated with Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals by sponsoring fundraising events and participating in service projects at local children’s hospital.
Bronx Science Key Club will be supporting Children's Miracle Network by wearing Miracle Bands and starting a social media campaign to show our commitment to give kids every chance to live better. |
Founded in 1983, Children's Miracle Network Hospitals is an international non-profit organization that raises funds for children's hospitals and medical research as well as increases community awareness of its member hospitals and children's health issues.
Since its founding, Children's Miracle Network Hospitals has raised more than $5 billion dollars for 170 children's hospitals to purchase up-to-date equipment, train staff, conduct life-saving research, implement outreach programs and provide health care for children whose parents can't afford to pay. Did you know? Every minute, 62 children enter a Children's Miracle Network Hospital. That's one child every second. |
Since 1978, Key Club has partnered with the March of Dimes to give every baby a healthy start. Key Club members support March of Dimes all year long by walking in the March for Babies, hosting service projects, raising thousands of dollars through various programs and educating their communities about the crisis of preterm birth.
Every year in spring, Bronx Science Key Club supports March of Dimes by walking in the March For Babies event in Manhattan along with other Key Clubs in various divisions and raising hundreds of dollars. Watch out for this event in the Upcoming Events and join us at the next walk! "Did you know? President's Roosevelt's face was chosen to be put on the dime because of his work with the March of Dimes Foundation. |
Founded in 1938 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to combat polio, the March of Dimes Foundation is a nonprofit organization that now works to improve the health of mothers and babies. Originally the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the name March of Dimes was the title used for the foundation's annual fundraising event that raised donations one dime at a time to fund polio aid programs and research for vaccines that effectively ended the polio epidemic in the United States.
With this, March of Dimes turned its focus to the rising issue of premature births. Every minute, a baby is born too soon. Every day, 72 babies die due to preterm birth complications. In fact, prematurity is the #1 leading cause of death in newborns. Now, March of Dimes is funding lifesaving research and programs and working to end premature birth, birth defects and infant mortality. The March for Babies, March of Dimes' largest fundraiser of the year and the oldest nationwide charitable walking event, has raised more than $1.8 billion dollars since 1970. |