The Campaign for Every Child’s Wish
Our vision is clear: to eliminate the waitlist and ensure that every child receives their wish without delay.
Dear Friends,
Right now, 1,150 children across North Texas are waiting for a wish that research tells us could change their medical outcome. Some have been waiting two years.
That number is not an abstraction. It’s a child named Neeno, who turned seven in a hospital room. It’s a six-year-old named Paisley who has never had a play space that felt like hers. It’s a boy named Lawson whose family drove three hours each way for treatment, and who has never once asked for anything in return.
We have everything we need to reach every one of them — the staff, the infrastructure, the relationships with physicians across 161 counties. What we don’t have yet is the funding to close the gap. That’s why I’m writing to you.
You have the power to end this wait. Not symbolically. Specifically. A gift at your level has the potential to grant [X] wishes — each one delivered during treatment, when it can change not just how a child feels, but how they fight.
The research is clear. The need is now. Not after treatment ends — but in the middle of the journey, when hope can change everything. And I believe you’re exactly the kind of person who acts when it matters most.
Neeno was six years old when he was diagnosed with leukemia. After a grueling year of treatment — chemotherapy, stroke risk, a rare fungal infection doctors said was often incurable — Make-A-Wish transformed a hospital floor into a birthday party built entirely around him.
During the party, something changed. His parents noticed him more alert, more present. Days later, the infection was gone. Neeno is ten years old today. He walks, goes to school, and grows stronger every day.
Paisley is six years old and has never had a play space that truly felt like hers. She is currently waiting — one of 1,150 children across North Texas whose wish has not yet been granted.
Her story is still being written. Your gift can write the next chapter.
Lawson and his family drove three hours each way for treatment. Week after week. He never complained. He never asked for anything. He is still waiting.
A wish won’t erase what his family has been through. But it will give them a reason — a moment they can hold onto when the road gets hard again.
Alya is waiting. Like so many of the children on our list, she has spent more time in medical settings than she has outside of them. Her wish is simple. Her need is real.
Every child on this list deserves that one moment — the one that reminds them who they are beyond their diagnosis.
Emory loves volleyball. When her diagnosis turned her world upside down, the game — the one thing that was purely hers — felt impossibly far away. Her wish brought it back.
She is proof that a wish is not a luxury. It’s a lifeline.
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With your help, that number shrinks. The gap doesn’t close on its own. It closes because someone decided it should. Help us reduce the wait.
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With your support, the gap closes and every wish gets granted.
Our costs are rising to meet demand — but without new philanthropic investment, expenses will outpace revenue by 2026, creating a funding gap just when the most children need us. The window to act is now. With your support, we close the gap and grant every wish on the list.
