 Top of the Mountain Children's Disease Foundation
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The journey to health often is analogized to a hike up a mountain. The trail is not always straight. There are steep grades, switchbacks, downhill stretches and unwieldy obstacles. The term "Top of the Mountain" signifies the journeys of children and their families toward health, the challenges they face, but, ultimately, the goal that so many achieve.
Our Mission
To raise awareness of life threatening and chronic diseases afflicting children and to improve the quality of life for children with life threatening and chronic diseases and their families.
The Latest
April 14, 2010: We have finalized our grant to Jonathan Jacques Children's Cancer Center. As with our other partners, JJCCC will use our funds to assist families who have children with serious illnesses. In many cases, families facing these challenges can no longer afford basic necessities, including groceries, transportation and housing expenses. Our funds will be used to provide emergency funds to these families while JJCCC social workers help them with address longer term needs.
March 26, 2010: Top of the Mountain announces that it has finalized grants that establish funding programs with Trinity KidsCare Hospice and Toberman Neighborhood Center. Our funds will be disbursed by these organizations to families of children who are diagnosed with life threatening, life limiting or other serious ilnesses. The funds will be used to help pay for items such as medicine, clothing, transportation, utilities and other necessities. Your donation dollars at work! Thank you!
March 2, 2010: TOTM is a joyful sponsor of the Jonathan Jaques Children’s Cancer Center's 25th Annual Champions Run for Life, Saturday, June 12, 2010, Rainbow Harbor Esplanade on Shoreline Drive next to the Aquarium of the Pacific, in Long Beach. Come out and support the JJCCC, an organization that has saved - and continues to save - thousands of children's lives! More information is on the JJCCC's website. A pdf version of the Run for Life flyer is available here.
What We Do
When a child is diagnosed with a serious illness, families struggle with enormous burdens – treatment regimens, doctor and hospital appointments, surgeries, not to mention ensuring the well-being of siblings and the emotional challenges that they all – moms, dads, brothers, sisters, grandparents and other extended family and friends – face. Regrettably, financial burdens persist as a result of the diagnosis as well.
Top of the Mountain was created to “improve the quality of life” for families such as these, to donate gifts, such as toys, books, games and videos, to them and to facilities such as hospital playrooms. We also pay for items that many may take for granted, but mean so much to struggling families, such as groceries, energy bills, arts and sports programs for siblings, and numerous other day-to-day expenses.
Learn more about us by clicking here. Learn more about our affiliate partners by clicking here.
Top of the Mountain Children's Disease Foundation is an Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3) public charity. Tax ID # 26-4210995. Donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law. |
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