Posted 11/2022: Since 2006, Angels for Hearts has had the pleasure of delivering Christmas presents to thousands of pediatric heart patients at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco, Sutter Children’s Center, Sacramento, and UC Davis Children’s Hospital — all thanks to the generous support of our donors. We want all …
Posted 06/2022: The weekend of October 7-9, our own Curt Kaufman, CFO & President of Angels for Hearts, will be hitting the links in the eighth annual Villara/DCA Capital Cup. This will mark the fifth year Curt is competing and raising funds for Angels for Hearts. Thirty-two executives from the Sacramento region will participate in the …
Holiday Giving Results Updated 02/2022: We want all in-patient heart kids to experience the simple joy of waking up on Christmas morning knowing Santa found them, even in the hospital, and made their wishes come true. And 2021 was no exception! For the 2021 holiday season, Angels for Hearts donated over $16,500 through our “Wishes, …
Why do heart families need medical binders? Many heart families have a shared experience of being in the hospital, sometimes hours away from home, to realize a simple procedure has become very complex and a longer hospital stay is necessary. With medical complexity comes pages and pages of information about your heart child’s condition—information about doctors, medications, care …
In 2014, Angels for Hearts developed I ♥ Golf—a first-of-its-kind annual series of golf clinics, held at Haggin Oaks Golf Complex, hosted in partnership and affiliation with The Morton Golf Foundation and The Northern California Institute of Golf for Kids. Golf is recommended for heart kids as a safe sport by pediatric cardiologists. For many …
Our “Wishes, Wants & Needs” program provides discretionary funds and responds to requests from Child Life Specialists at regional hospitals for anything pediatric heart patients and their families may wish, want or need while in the hospital. Our ability to provide these items helps relieve parental stress and aids in the child’s recovery. Here are a few examples: …
Tournament Results and Wrap Up Updated 10/2021: For the fourth year, Curt Kaufman, CFO of Angels for Hearts, hit the links in the seventh annual Villara/DCA Capital Cup Golf Tournament raising over $35,000 for Angels for Hearts. Thirty-two executives from the Sacramento region participated and set a record raising over $2.3 million for their chosen organizations. …
Tournament Results Updated 02/2021: Our own Curt Kaufman, CFO of Angels for Hearts, hit the links in the sixth annual Villara/DCA Capital Cup Golf Tournament, raising $38,000. Twenty-eight executives from the Sacramento region participated in the event raising over $1.8 million for their chosen organizations. The Villara/DCA Capital Cup adapts the historic Ryder Cup format steeped in tradition—to …
Holiday Giving Results Updated 02/2021: The year 2020 was like no other, perhaps to be remembered by many households as a time of social isolation, economic hardship, or the loss of a loved one. This lack of control felt by millions is similar to how heart families feel on a daily basis—not knowing what to expect each day. …
Heart families are families who have at least one child with a cardiac issue. Our mission is to bring normalcy to pediatric heart patients “heart kids” ages newborn to 18, both in and out of the hospital. We remind heart kids that first and foremost they are kids before being heart patients. Heart families have learned since …