Special Children’s Charities of Chicago is the fundraising organization of Special Olympics Chicago. Special Olympics provide a competitive forum for thousands of special athletes here in Chicago every year. Both were founded in 1969 for athletes competing in everything from gymnastics to tennis, basketball to track and field.
Advocate Children's Hospital (ACH) is an academic pediatric acute care children's hospital located in Oak Lawn and Park Ridge, Illinois. It has been recognized by U.S News & World Report as one of the Nation’s Best Children’s Hospitals for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery. Patients come from around the world to their internationally recognized Advocate Children's Heart Institute, one of the largest pediatric cardiovascular programs in the Midwest.
Black Friday. Cyber Monday. And what we consider to be the most important, Giving Tuesday. December 1st was all about giving to those in need. According to givingtuesday.org, there were 1.3 million mentions of the movement and a total of $116.7 million were raised. Thank you to everyone who donated to our organization on Giving Tuesday!
Advocate Children’s Hospital had a very successful day of fundraising. They partnered with Aurelio’s Pizza and Aurelio’s matched every dollar of the first $5,000 in support of Child Life programs at the Hospital. All donations go towards supplies and supporting young patients and their families. They were able to raise $15,000!