Miracles for Kids

Miracles for Kids' mission is to improve the lives of critically-ill children and their families in need. Miracles for Kids is one of the only organizations on the West Coast providing monthly financial assistance, subsidized housing, mental health services and wellness activities to families with a critically-ill child. The services help to create stability when families are crumbling from the financial and emotional devastation of fighting for their child's life. Founded in 2002, Miracles for Kids has a main office in Irvine, CA and a subsidized housing complex in Orange, CA.

Miracles for Kids helps families with critically-ill children battle bankruptcy, homelessness, hung

Goal One: Reduce waitlist of low-income families with critically-ill children in need of basic needs and support services.

Goal Two: Expand core stability programs – bill pay, housing, food/essentials delivery, wellness – with a specific focus on mental health and family stability.

Goal Three: Increase community and corporate support through newly launched 360° Miracle women’s giving circle and expanded Corporate Partnership programs.

Miracles for Kids is highly focused on leadership development for all staff members, whether Department heads or team leaders. Formal training is offered year round through an annual membership with our region’s nonprofit training resource. Staff is encouraged to attend all relevant courses and certificate programs to grow their professional talents, build capacity, and increase ability to effectively serve our families.

We initially moved into a new office on March 7th, 2020, but when the county shutdown took place five days after, we immediately shifted to a work from home rotating schedule. Miracles for Kids remained open and deployed a bi-monthly emergency fund delivery to families to secure stability and prevent homelessness/hunger. We increased our monthly funding for families by 25% to make a more significant impact on patient families struggling to make ends meet. Operations shifted to begin an aggressive phone banking system to maintain contact with families and patients. We pivoted our biggest program to focus on providing essentials like PPE, cleaning supplies, and gift cards to our families who were hit hard by COVID-19. Our Basic Needs program now focused on delivering PPE, gift cards, and any needs from families. We continued to make changes to ensure our families’ needs were met by launching a new monthly program to send boxes of additional basic needs and uplifting items for the children. In June, we teamed up with local community partners to execute a COVID-19 Response Meal Distribution Project to make sure our families in OC, LA, and Inland empire areas were fed. We also moved to direct appeal structure to secure funding, gifts, grants, PPE and resource lines. In regards to donations, we invested in digital fundraising platforms and offered new remote volunteer opportunities to maintain a strong communication with donors, supporters, and individuals in the community. Even launching a monthly giving circle! We were able to pivot our annual fundraiser and bring together eight intimate, privately hosted outdoor dining experiences across city, county, and country borders to connect via live stream. The innovative hybrid format helped us raise a record breaking amount to meet the historic level of need in the face of the pandemic. As a result, our 2020 Night of Miracles Gala ranked #4 in the Orange County Business Journal’s “Top 5 Galas.”