Housing Support
The MBA Opens Doors Foundation is dedicated to providing the comforts of home to families in crisis. Through our home grant program, we provide mortgage and rental payment assistance grants to parents and guardians caring for a critically ill or injured child, allowing them to take unpaid leave from work and spend precious time together without jeopardizing their cherished homes.
Project Joy & Hope - Supporting medically fragile children and their families.
Hope House Ministry - Many families travel from around the country and the world to come to Houston’s famous Texas Medical Center for treatment. While here dealing with diagnoses and treatment, they are removed from their support systems of family and friends during a most difficult time in their lives. Houston’s First Baptist Church seeks to come alongside those families by offering housing, encouragement, and fellowship for the duration of their stay.
Ballard House - Offering no-cost temporary housing for individuals and caregivers undergoing treatment in Houston, Texas—a comforting refuge on the path to healing.
Family Support
The Sisters by Heart mission expands well beyond diagnosis, providing support, education, and empowerment to patients and families throughout the single ventricle lifespan. We provide care packages to make hospital stays easier and resources to help families better understand the single ventricle journey.
The Heart Warrior Achievement Scholarship’s mission is to support CHD warriors on their educational journey by providing financial assistance in the form of scholarships thus reducing some of the burdens they have already incurred on their challenging journey with CHD.
Hunt with Heart’s mission is to empower and enhance the lives of children with severe illnesses through unforgettable outdoor experiences.
The mission of HeartGift is to provide life-saving congenital heart defect surgery to children from around the world where specialized medical treatment is either scarce or nonexistent.
The mission of the Haley Rasco Foundation is to bring moments of joy to pediatric hospital patients and their families. Whether they are in the hospital for a planned procedure or a chronic illness, hospitals are not fun. If we can bring just one bright moment to that patient during their experience and bring a smile to their face, we’ve spread a little more of Haley’s joy in this world.
A 501(c)3 organization founded in 1982, a Wish with Wings™ was Texas’ first wish-granting agency. As we celebrate more than 40 years in service, we have granted over 1,900 wishes to Texas children fighting life-threatening medical conditions.
Caiden's Hope Foundation is committed to easing the challenges faced by parents of hospitalized premature infants by providing essential support, resources, and hope during the most critical times.
Heart Warrior Ministries, believes no family should face a congenital heart defect alone. They are committed to walking alongside them, providing support, assistance and resources during the challenging season of caring for a little one with a heart defect.
The goal of We Choose Happy is to educate individuals and families on the chosen disability. Form relationships and support local and national charities specific to that disability. Accept nominations for children and adults living with disabilities and create happiness for those chosen.
Texas Medical Center - Parking Support
One of Smilin' Rylen Foundation’s many missions is to support families in need with parking passes in the Houston Medical Center.
Nora’s Home offers solid organ transplant patients and their families an affordable place to stay in the Texas Medical Center (TMC) where they can find support and share experiences with others, in the comfort of a home-like environment.
The Children’s Organ Transplant Association (COTA) helps children and young adults who need a life-saving transplant by providing fundraising assistance and family support.
Transplant Support
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Heart University - Traditionally held every 4 years, the World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery gathered in 2023. The interdisciplinary scientific program was developed by leaders in pediatric cardiology, cardiac surgery, cardiac nursing, cardiac anesthesia, cardiac intensive care, perfusion and other experts from around the globe, and featured 22 subspecialty tracks. These tracks were designed so that healthcare professionals from all disciplines could customize their learning experience. These recordings provide valuable insight led by leaders in the field.
Do you have additional resources that would be helpful to heart families as they navigate their journey? Please send details to info@graememcdanielfoundation.org, so we can add them to this list.