Make-A-Wish Foundation® (Learn More) The Make-A-Wish Foundation® grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. Born in 1980 when a group of caring individuals helped a young boy fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer, the Foundation is now the largest wish-granting charity in the world, with 69 chapters in the U.S. and its territories. With the help of generous donors and nearly 25,000 volunteers, the Make-A-Wish Foundation grants more than 12,500 wishes a year and has granted more than 141,000 wishes in the U.S. since inception. Since 1999, JFC and the jewelry industry have impacted the lives of 900 children and their families in the United States by funding
wishes through the Wish A State program.
Through Make-A-Wish Foundation International, JFC continues its work with the Make-A-Wish Foundation of India to reach out to 5,000 children with life-threatening illnesses this year alone. With JFC's generous funding, India has increased the number of wishes it grants by more than 200% since 2003.
National CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) Association (Learn More) National CASA is dedicated to making the world a safer and more nurturing place for the nation's abused and neglected children. CASA's highly-trained volunteers are matched one to one with these children and work to ensure that they are placed into stable, caring homes where they can thrive. CASA's national network of local programs in more than 900 communities provides a strong voice, one child at a time, to more than 200,000 children each year. National CASA and JFC's "Champions for Abused Children" Initiative provides critical advocacy services to abused and neglected children around the country. In the first years of our partnership, JFC's support has already brought hope and a better future to thousands of these children.
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation/Glaser Pediatric Research Network (Learn More) The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation seeks to prevent pediatric HIV infection and to eradicate pediatric AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment programs. JFC’s support of the Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award program will allow leaders in the field of pediatric AIDS/HIV research to bring hope to children and families worldwide. In addition, programs supported by JFC have been implemented in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and India to help prevent the transmission of the HIV virus from mother to child. It’s support of the Glaser Pediatric Research Network Fellow program has helped accelerate the discovery of new treatments for other serious and life-threatening pediatric illnesses.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® (Learn More) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is dedicated to finding cures and saving children. The commitment of the Jewelers for Children to St. Jude has helped the hospital continue its effort to provide state-of-the-art treatments for children with cancer and other catastrophic illnesses and to research life-saving breakthroughs that are freely shared with the medical community worldwide. Thus, one child saved at St. Jude means many more saved worldwide. JFC helps ensure this crucial research will continue and that no child will ever be turned away from St. Jude because of a family's inability to pay. JFC endowed the Bone Marrow Transplant Clinic at St. Jude in 1999, and since then almost 900 children have received bone marrow transplants. Additionally, JFC has funded the Stem Cell Transplantation Laboratory and a chair in the Genetics and Gene Therapy departments. JFC is currently working to fulfill a $5 million pledge to fund immune system regeneration research.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation® grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. Born in 1980 when a group of caring individuals helped a young boy fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer, the Foundation is now the largest wish-granting charity in the world, with 69 chapters in the U.S. and its territories. With the help of generous donors and nearly 25,000 volunteers, the Make-A-Wish Foundation grants more than 12,500 wishes a year and has granted more than 141,000 wishes in the U.S. since inception. Since 1999, JFC and the jewelry industry have impacted the lives of 900 children and their families in the United States by funding
wishes through the Wish A State program.
National CASA is dedicated to making the world a safer and more nurturing place for the nation's abused and neglected children. CASA's highly-trained volunteers are matched one to one with these children and work to ensure that they are placed into stable, caring homes where they can thrive. CASA's national network of local programs in more than 900 communities provides a strong voice, one child at a time, to more than 200,000 children each year. National CASA and JFC's "Champions for Abused Children" Initiative provides critical advocacy services to abused and neglected children around the country. In the first years of our partnership, JFC's support has already brought hope and a better future to thousands of these children.
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation seeks to prevent pediatric HIV infection and to eradicate pediatric AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment programs. JFC’s support of the Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award program will allow leaders in the field of pediatric AIDS/HIV research to bring hope to children and families worldwide. In addition, programs supported by JFC have been implemented in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and India to help prevent the transmission of the HIV virus from mother to child. It’s support of the Glaser Pediatric Research Network Fellow program has helped accelerate the discovery of new treatments for other serious and life-threatening pediatric illnesses.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is dedicated to finding cures and saving children. The commitment of the Jewelers for Children to St. Jude has helped the hospital continue its effort to provide state-of-the-art treatments for children with cancer and other catastrophic illnesses and to research life-saving breakthroughs that are freely shared with the medical community worldwide. Thus, one child saved at St. Jude means many more saved worldwide. JFC helps ensure this crucial research will continue and that no child will ever be turned away from St. Jude because of a family's inability to pay. JFC endowed the Bone Marrow Transplant Clinic at St. Jude in 1999, and since then almost 900 children have received bone marrow transplants. Additionally, JFC has funded the Stem Cell Transplantation Laboratory and a chair in the Genetics and Gene Therapy departments. JFC is currently working to fulfill a $5 million pledge to fund immune system regeneration research.