What Your Donation Dollars Provide
Michigan families caring for children with serious or life-limiting illnesses deserve a place where their children can receive specialized hospice and palliative care in a warm, compassionate, home-like environment. The Mitten Foundation is working to make that a reality. Michigan currently has no dedicated facility specifically designed to provide this type of comprehensive pediatric hospice and palliative care. Your donation to The Mitten Foundation can help change that. Every contribution brings us closer to creating a safe and comforting home where children can receive expert care while families receive the support, respite, and peace of mind they desperately need. By giving, you are helping build something Michigan families should never have to live without—a place where children are surrounded by comfort, dignity, love, and hope during their most challenging days.
$100
-Provides comfort kits, gas cards, meals, and essential supplies
-Eases the burden on families during life's most difficult moments
$1,000
-Funds medical equipment, respite care, and in-home support
-Helps children remain safely at home, surrounded by those they love
$5,000
-Supports care coordination, counseling, and emotional support services
-Transforms a fragmented experience into a compassionate, supported journey
$10,000+
-Creates and maintains a memorial garden at the hospice home
-Offers families a peaceful place for reflection, remembrance, and healing
$50,000+
-Provides extended respite care, end-of-life support, and bereavement services
-Ensures no family faces serious illness, loss, or grief alone
$100,000+
-Establishes a comprehensive care closet stocked with durable medical equipment, wound care supplies, and other essential non-covered medical needs
-Removes financial barriers and ensures children receive the care they need
$500,000+
-Helps equip Michigan's pediatric palliative and hospice care home
-Creates a family-centered environment where children can receive compassionate care with dignity and comfort
$1,000,000+
-Helps bring Michigan's first pediatric palliative and hospice care home to fruition
-Transforms care for the state's most medically fragile children and their families
