Changing Lives Connections One Smile at a Time 2017 HIGHLIGHTS Changing Lives One Smile at a Time…thanks to you! Read about it in our newsletter! A Message from our Leadership More than three million children are hospitalized each year in the United States. Because of you, pediatric patients nation-wide are now benefitting from enCourage Kids. 2017 celebrated a year of growth as we expanded beyond the tristate, and BOARD OF DIRECTORS provided funding and programming to pediatric facilities across 26 states and in Puerto Rico. With a goal of having a presence in all pediatric facilities in the U.S., OFFICERS Chairman we look forward to making the hospital a better place to get better for all sick kids. Jeffrey Gural GFP Real Estate 2017 was also a year full of exciting milestones for enCourage Kids. Through our Executive Vice President & Treasurer Pediatric Hospital Support Program, we exceeded $15M awarded to fund nearly Joseph Wessely 850 projects, hosted the 10th Anniversary Weekend Escape at Camp Pontiac, and Dime Community Bank raised a record-breaking $1.8M at the 32nd Annual Gala. Secretary Mary Krayeske In the Spring of 2017, we partnered with martial artist and world record holder, Leif Con Edison Becker, on his Breaking Barriers campaign. In just 24 hours, he set a record and broke MEMBERS 12,120 boards. His journey represented our courageous and resilient enCourage kids Jay Anderson The Feil Organization overcoming their fears and medical barriers. The event also spread awareness for our Artists4EKF program, which funds creative therapies in the hospital such as Lucy Ball Lone Pine Foundation playroom murals, music therapy, artists-in-residence programs, and creative writing sessions. In addition to the digital advertisements featured on billboards in Times Michael Brown Principal Square, through this campaign we exceeded 200 million media impressions across Steve Carbone print, television, and online platforms. This number continues to grow as Leif visits MediaCom hospitals across the country on a Breaking Barriers tour. Kip Crennan Hampton Beauty Associates With your support, we continue to develop our partnerships with hospitals Tony Fineman across the country, and provide programs that improve the emotional well-being ACORE Capital of pediatric patients. We hope you enjoy the following pages highlighting the impact Andrew Friedwald your kindness and commitment have had over the past year. Thanks to YOU, these Titan Advisors, LLC children receive opportunities to laugh, play, and have normal childhood fun. E.E. “Buzzy” Geduld Cougar Capital On behalf of the thousands of children and families whose lives are enhanced by Justin Green your generosity, thank you. HaysVentures, LLC Sincerely, Claudia Hilbert Special Events Consultant David Matera James O’Donnell Michele Hall-Duncan Jeffrey Gural Citigroup Executive Director Board Chairman Joan Palermo Ernst & Young, LLP Robert Rosenberg SMILES BY THE NUMBERS Wells Fargo Bank 2017 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Alan Roth Signature Bank BEARS HOSPITAL ESCAPES TABLETS Harvey Sanders HAPPENINGS Adam Spies Cushman & Wakefield Paul Verdi Capital One Bank Michael Weinstein Ark Restaurant Corp. LEGAL COUNSEL Christopher Hilbert 2,480 21,182 8,358 180,675 Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP SMILES SMILES SMILES SMILES 2 PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL SUPPORT PROGRAM 2017 MARKS $15M AWARDED TO NEARLY 850 HOSPITAL PROJECTS IN 2017, $365,966 WAS AWARDED TO 29 HOSPITALS. Creative Therapy Programs fund artist-in- residence programs, support music and art therapy programs, and horticulture therapy. These therapy programs are proven to greatly $15,400 soothe and reduce patient anxiety, increase awarded to OUTPATIENT AND patient cooperation with medical procedures, RECREATIONAL and provide arts education for pediatric patients. ACTIVITIES Outpatient and Recreational Activities, which range from hospital parties to day trips, provide distractions $191,035 from the stress of treatments and hospital stays, and awarded to give pediatric patients opportunities to interact with CREATIVE THERAPY PROGRAMS other children. The experiences encourage mobility and independence, and pediatric patients return $37,084 with increased self-esteem, self-confidence, and awarded to RENOVATIONS & motivation to live fuller, more active lives. Additionally, ENHANCEMENTS the hospital experience becomes less scary as the patients are shown that the hospital is not always associated with procedures or pain. Renovations & Enhancements provide much needed improvement of hospital facilities where families and $78,447 pediatric patients alike spend much of their time. Be it a awarded to TECHNOLOGY waiting room, playroom, or general improvement of the $44,000 unit in its entirety (hallways, artwork, floors, etc.), these awarded to PROGRAMS ADMISSION & enhancements and renovations significantly improve the CARE KITS aesthetic of the hospitals. This in turn improves the mood and general outlook for both patients and their families while in the hospital. Technology Programs include inpatient gaming & entertainment Admission & Care Kits are individualized activity packs systems, tablets for distraction and education, advanced recording given to pediatric patients upon arrival to the Emergency technology for music therapy, intra-hospital patient-to-patient TV Department. These packs prevent boredom during wait times, programming, and mobile treatment units that can travel room to provide distraction during tests, and can alleviate the anxieties room to soothe and entertain non-mobile patients while undergoing accompanying an emergency trip to the hospital. difficult treatments. 2017 PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL SUPPORT PROGRAM RECIPIENTS Bernard & Millie Duker Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center John T. Mather Memorial Hospital Blythedale Children’s Hospital Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Brookdale Hospital & Medical Center NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital Brooklyn Hospital Center NewYork-Presbyterian/Phillis & David Komansky Center for Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Children’s Health Children’s Hospital of Michigan* North Shore University Hospital Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper University Hospital NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue Children’s Specialized Hospital NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem Columbia Memorial Hospital NYU Langone Medical Center Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center St. Margaret’s House and Hospital for Babies Flushing Hospital Medical Center St. Mary’s Hospital for Children Hospital for Special Care Stony Brook Children’s Hospital Hospital for Special Surgery Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital Jamaica Hospital Medical Center * first time recipient 3 ● PHSP ● Care Room ● Tablets ● Bears ● Entertainers Our Hospital Partners ● Hospital Happenings ● Oriental Trading Gift Cards ALABAMA NEW HAMPSHIRE Children’s of Alabama ● Elliot Hospital ● CALIFORNIA NEW JERSEY Children’s Hospital Los Angeles ● AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center ● Marin General Hospital ● Bayonne Medical Center ● Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital ● BMSCH at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital ● ● ● CentraState Medical Center ● CONNECTICUT Children’s Regional Hospital/Cooper University Health Care ● ● ● Bridgeport Hospital ● ● ● Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center ● ● ● ● Newark Beth Israel Medical Center ● ● ● ● ● Danbury Hospital ● Children’s Specialized Hospital (New Brunswick) ● ● ● ● ● Hospital for Special Care ● ● Children’s Specialized Hospital (Toms River) ● Natchaug Hospital ● Chilton Medical Center ● ● ● ● Norwalk Hospital ● Clara Maass Medical Center ● ● ● St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center ● Englewood Hospital and Medical Center ● ● ● ● ● Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital ● ● ● ● Goryeb Children’s Center at Overlook Medical Center ● ● ● ● ● DELAWARE Goryeb Children’s Hospital at Morristown Medical Center ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Nemours/Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children ● JFK Medical Center ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● FLORIDA Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack UMC ● ● ● Holtz Children’s Hospital ● K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital at Jersey Shore Medical Center ● Nicklaus Children’s Hospital ● Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center ● The Salah Foundation Children’s Hospital at Broward Health ● Monmouth Medical Center Monroe Community Hospital ● ILLINOIS Montefiore Medical Center - Jack D. Weiler Hospital ● ● Alexian Brothers Women & Children’s Hospital Montefiore Medical Center - Wakefield Campus ● ● Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center ● ● Comer Children’s Hospital at UChicago Medicine Raritan Bay Medical Center ● ● Mercyhealth Hospital-Rockton Avenue St. Barnabas Medical Center New Jersey ● ● ● ● ● INDIANA St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital ● ● ● ● ● ● Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital ● St. Peter’s University Hospital ● ● ● Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health ● The Valley Hospital ● The Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation ● KENTUCKY Trinitas Regional Medical Center ● ● Kentucky Children’s Hospital ● University Hospital ● ● LOUISIANA University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro ● ● Children’s Hospital at University Health ● Virtua Health System ● ● Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital ● NEW YORK MARYLAND ArchCare Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center ● Johns Hopkins Hospital ● Arnot Ogden Medical