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YEAR IN REVIEW 2013 Supporting kids and families from hospital to home. OUR MISSION Starlight Children’s Foundation partners with experts to improve the life and health of kids and families around the world. Table of Contents Letter from the Executive Director ............................................................. 2 About Starlight Children’s Foundation ......................................................... 3 Starlight® Fun Center® Mobile Entertainment Units ....................................... 4 Starlight Fun Center Unit Recipients ........................................................... 5 Hospital Happenings ................................................................................ 6 Starlight® Site Care Rooms ....................................................................... 7 Starlight® Wish Lists ................................................................................ 8 Starbright World® .................................................................................... 8 Pediatric Hospital Support Program ............................................................ 9 Pediatric Hospital Support Program Recipients ........................................... 10 Starlight® Escapes ................................................................................. 12 Starlight® Tablets .................................................................................. 14 Starlight Tablet Recipients....................................................................... 14 Interactive Multimedia Programs.............................................................. 15 Starlight® Visibility Campaign .................................................................. 16 Fundraising Events ................................................................................ 17 Turnkey Events ..................................................................................... 21 How to Help .......................................................................................... 23 Contributors ......................................................................................... 26 Donated Goods and Services ................................................................... 33 Board of Directors ................................................................................. 34 Staff .................................................................................................... 35 Where it Goes ....................................................................................... 36 starlight.org/newyork | 1 Letter from the Executive Director This past year, I was honored to be named Executive Director of Starlight Children’s Foundation NY*NJ*CT. More than 20 years ago, I started with Starlight as a volunteer and have since held many roles within the organization. In every capacity, I have witnessed both the heartache and joy that comes from caring for seriously ill children and their families. Their triumphs and pitfalls have had a profound impact on my life. As I look to them and the future of Starlight, my role is clear. We must continue to provide high-quality, tangible programs that directly impact our children and families. We move into 2014 confident in the plans that we’ve laid and encouraged by our incredible donors, volunteers, board members and staff. Each year, our chapter meets the needs of more than 275,000 children and families within the tri-state area. However, there’s always more that we can do. Throughout our 29 years as a Starlight chapter, we have shaped our programs to reflect the needs and wants of children, their families and pediatric healthcare professionals. We will continue to listen to them and develop and enhance our strategies to reach more children and families, focusing on the gaps that Starlight fills in the pediatric healthcare space. The Starlight Board of Directors, myself and our executive team are committed to wisely allocating funds that we receive from generous donors to meet these needs, both those that have already been identified and those that are revealed as we move forward. Our team is focused on doing more with less and every day, we are identifying new and unique ways to increase our efficiency and effectiveness. This report illuminates how Starlight continues to improve the life and health of kids and families around the world and how your invaluable contributions make it possible. Every day a child is born or diagnosed with a chronic or life-threatening medical condition. While we can’t physically heal them, we can offer ways to improve their hospital experience, which can greatly improve a patient’s health outcome and we can also offer them opportunities to create fun, positive memories during their challenging medical journey. On behalf of all of the children and families whose lives have been forever changed through Starlight, and for those we can continue to help, we thank you for your continued support. Michele Hall-Duncan, Executive Director 2 | starlight.org/newyork About Starlight Children’s Foundation NY*NJ*CT Starlight Children’s Foundation NY*NJ*CT is an international nonprofit 501(c)(3) and is part of Starlight’s global network, serving kids and families through partnerships with more than 100 healthcare facilities. Over the past 30 years, Starlight has become a leading global charity that partners with experts to improve the life and health of kids and families around the world. Collaborating with innovators in pediatric healthcare, entertainment and technology, Starlight provides a unique blend of family- centered programs and services from hospital to home. Founded in 1982 by filmmaker Peter Samuelson and his cousin, Emma Samms, Starlight originally launched as a wish granting organization and rapidly expanded its services to include an extensive menu of groundbreaking programs. Some of the benefits associated with Starlight’s programs include: Decreased pain and anxiety Increased knowledge and sense of responsibility for managing disease Decreased need for pain medication A greater willingness to return for treatment A greater sense of peer support Alleviation of stress, loneliness and isolation that often accompany prolonged illness Now in its 29th year, the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut chapter of Starlight serves more than 275,000 children, teens and families in the tri-state area. Starlight’s programs play a critical role in the overall healing process by helping them cope with the challenging daily demands of illness, injury or disability. While others treat the illness, Starlight treats the child. starlight.org/newyork | 3 Starlight® Fun Center® Mobile Entertainment Units Equipped with the latest gaming system to provide bedside entertainment and the healing power of play, Starlight® Fun Center® units roll right up to the side of hospitalized children’s beds to provide comforting breaks and fun distraction. Particularly beneficial to children facing surgery, enduring long outpatient treatments or coping with loneliness after visiting hours have ended, Starlight Fun Center units greatly improve the experience for hospitalized children. 4 | starlight.org/newyork Starlight® Fun Center® Unit Recipients 2013 Bellevue Hospital Center (NY) Blythedale Children’s Hospital (NY) Coney Island Hospital (NY) Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center (NY) Goryeb Children’s Hospital at Morristown Memorial (NJ) Hackettstown Regional Medical Center (NJ) Harlem Hospital (NY) Hospital for Special Surgery (NY) Jacobi Medical Center (2) (NY) Lincoln Medical Center (NY) Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital (NY) Metropolitan Hospital Center (NY) Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New-York Presbyterian (2) (NY) Nassau University Medical Center (NY) New York Hospital Queens (NY) Northern Westchester Hospital (NY) NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases (NY) NYU Langone Medical Center (NY) St. Barnabas Medical Center (2) (NJ) St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital (NJ) Stamford Hospital (CT) Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center (NY) The Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center (NJ) Wyckoff Heights Medical Center (NY) starlight.org/newyork | 5 Hospital Happenings Hospitalization is not generally associated with fun for anyone, but it’s especially tough on children and teens. Though doctors, nurses, family and friends make long stays more bearable, pediatric patients endure a great deal of time feeling lonely, bored and scared. That’s where Starlight comes in! Hospital Happenings are fun-filled parties and therapeutic workshops conducted on-site at the hospital. These interactive events include laughter-packed visits from musicians, clowns and entertainers, plus other special activities such as movie nights, game tournaments and crafting extravaganzas. All pediatric patients are welcome, as are their parents and siblings. And if children must stay in bed, we can often bring the party to their rooms! Starlight offers an assortment of programs and activities that reach children in the hospital. They include: Starworks With a focus on therapy through creative expression, graduate writing students work with hospitalized children and teens to help them communicate their inner feelings, hopes, dreams and lives through poetry, stories and essays. Music Program Children benefit from the power of music as a result of sessions with music therapists who not only encourage their creativity and personal expression, but also help them develop coping skills and techniques for pain management. Clown Program Children