How You Can Help
Every gift to Children's Hospital Boston benefits young patients and families who need healing and hope. Through patient care, laboratory research, graduate medical education and community outreach, staff at Children's work to bring health and wellness to children everywhere. They look to a future when illness and injury will not get in the way of a child's chance to grow up and fulfill his or her dreams.
You can share in the commitment to bring the chance of a healthy future to every child. Through many avenues, charitable giving sustains Children's Hospital Boston's world-renowned pediatric care and research. Thank you for considering a gift made in any of these ways:
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Create an endowment or named fund designated to a field of research or patient care of special interest
- Support Children's with a gift of cash, appreciated securities or personal property
- Remember Children's through a bequest in your will
- Plan a gift that generates income for life and provides for your loved ones, such as a gift annuity or charitable remainder trust
- Honor someone special or recognize an important event, such as a birthday, wedding or graduation, with
a memorial or tribute gift
- Designate Children's through your employer's matching gift program or through a payroll giving program
- Organize a special event in your community to raise funds for Children's
- Support the WBZ-Children's Hospital Fund during the annual telethon on WBZ-TV 4 in December
Your gift makes a difference. For more information, please call the Children's
Hospital Trust at (617) 355-6890.
Eric Kobren A story of generosity
Eric M. Kobren has a vision. "I want to see the doors of Children's Hospital Boston closed." He hopes for a time when there isn't a need for a place dedicated to the care of sick and injured children. "But until then," he quickly adds, "I will do everything I can to support this remarkable institution."
For nearly 10 years, Kobren, president of the investment advisory firm Kobren Insight Management, Inc., has been a highly dedicated volunteer and donor to Children's. He currently serves on the hospital's Board of Trustees, and was a founding member of the Children's Hospital Trust Board and the first chair of the Heart Center Philanthropic Leadership Council. His wife, Cathy, is a hospital overseer and a member of the Children's Hospital League. Together, the Kobrens recently pledged a generous seven-figure gift to fund the Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology at Children's.
This lead gift helps launch a comprehensive, five-year campaign to generate broad support for Children's mission in research, patient care, medical training and community service. Charitable giving to the campaign will also contribute to the construction of a new 12-story research tower and 10-story expansion of the hospital's clinical facilities.
Kobren says he is privileged to make an impact on Children's campaign goal. "Just walking through the halls, you see on the faces of the patients—and the parents—what a special place this is."
Kobren knows firsthand how those parents feel. At 2 years of age, his son Jared came to Children's Emergency Department with Kawasaki's disease, an unusual and uncomfortable illness that can be fatal or lead to severe heart problems if not treated properly. World experts in the disease are at Children's. "Jared had a bad case, but today he is a healthy 15-year-old—and a great tennis player," Kobren says proudly. "Cathy and I know that not every family is as fortunate—yet every family we speak to is touched by the extraordinary dedication, care and sensitivity of the nurses, doctors and all the hospital staff."
Through his longtime involvement with the hospital, Kobren has come to appreciate that Children's Hospital Boston offers great promise for research advances that will improve child health. "You put the smartest researchers in the world together, and good things are going to happen," he says, describing the fertile ground of Children's laboratories. "What we need are new facilities to match the caliber of the staff; resources to recruit and train the very best; and support for innovative projects that can change the face of health care 20 years from now."
Eric Kobren wants to spread the word. "I want others to appreciate and support the incredible work taking place here. There is a tremendous opportunity to be seized. Children's scientists are on the verge of breaking new ground. What will come of this work may save or improve the life of a child you know."
