Kids-N-Hope Foundation donates $562,500 to children’s health and life service organizations

The Kids-N-Hope Foundation has announced $562,500 in annual contributions to support its mission in funding music therapy and child life services through organizations and local area hospitals, including Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s (“CHOP”) Music Therapy Program.

Since its inception over 25 years ago, the foundation has raised and donated over $3.1 million for pediatric therapy programs in the Philadelphia region, including over $2.8 million to CHOP.

The Kids-N-Hope Foundation distributes thousands of dollars to local area hospitals at the end of each year to continue supporting its mission.

Recipients who received donations from the foundation this year include Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia – $500,000; Jefferson Health Foundation – $10,000; Doylestown Hospital – $7,500; Grand View Health – $7,500; and Trinity Health/St. Mary Medical Center – $7,500; and Catholic Community Services – $5,000.

In 1996, American Heritage Credit Union become the first credit union in the country to form its own charitable organization. After American Heritage’s President and CEO Bruce Foulke visited the Seashore House at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, he and the American Heritage board of directors determined that the credit union would pledge to become a permanent benefactor of local pediatric causes, and thus the Kids-N-Hope Foundation was created to support CHOP’s needs, starting with the Music Therapy Program.

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