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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

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in 110 children are born with a Congenital Heart Defect (CHD)—the most common birth defect. In comparison, the odds of a child developing cancer by the age of 19 is approximately one in 330. And sadly, more children die from CHD than children with all

Many of our heart families have sadly lost their heart kids. Angels for Hearts began using the term “heart angel families” after Evan Boungnasiri passed away in January 2012. Evan was a heart kid who died when he fell off a playground ladder and hit his head. It wasn’t until later that the doctors determined that Evan

Hi, I’m Kimberly Kaufman. I grew up healthy and attended college. I am a Delta Gamma, I’ve traveled, I have amazing friends, and even more amazing set of parents.   In August 1999, I was living in Sacramento working as a Commercial Escrow Officer. In the middle of the night I was bitten on the foot