Ways to Give
Endowments help support neurosurgery research and care
Children’s Neurosurgery Department treats hundreds of children every year with both rare and common brain and spinal cord diseases and conditions. Some of these problems are life threatening; all have the ability to impair a child’s quality of life.
Many children with brain and spinal cord problems need a lifetime of care.
At Children’s, we believe that by using all available resources and the most technologically advanced approaches, we can often help children that may have seemingly untreatable surgical problems.
To do this, we develop and use innovative clinical care and invest our resources in critical research and promising technologies.
How you can help
Endowments allow Children’s to attract and retain the best researchers. They provide seed money that helps these researchers develop the initial data to attract large national grants.
Your donation helps Children’s:
- Provide much-needed support to some of our best and brightest neurosurgery physician-scientists
- Launch new research projects on behalf of children with brain and spine conditions
- Fund services to patients and families who are unable to pay
We constantly strive to increase our understanding of the causes of the variety of diseases and conditions requiring treatment and neurosurgery while defining and using new diagnostic and treatment strategies.
Please visit the Research & Advances section to learn more about the important research happening within the Neurosurgery department.
Brain tumor research
We want to change the way people think about and treat children with cancer.
Our immediate goal is determining the least-invasive treatment for each child. In the long term, we hope to discover cures for pediatric brain tumors.
Donations to our endowment funds have made a tremendous difference in brain tumor research.
In 1970, less than 30 percent of children with childhood cancer survived. Today more than 70 percent survive.
Research needs the support of endowment funds to bring this percentage even higher and to avoid some of the long-term effects of treatment.
Please contact Children’s Hospital Foundation for more information at (206) 987-2153.