After long deliberations, Little Giraffe Foundation voted to fund 20 initiatives for 2020, totaling $48,000 – 4 Neonatal Research Grants to forward medical care for premature babies and 17 NICU Support Grants designed to improve the lives of the families and babies in the NICU.

2020 NICU Support Grants

• Abington Health Foundation, Abington, Pennsylvania — to receive $1,000 to help families acquire the items they need to have a safe transition from the NICU to home.

• ​Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, Ohio — to receive two grants of $1,000. One to fund parking, travel passes, food cards. And one to purchase memory making items for families who have experienced the loss of a baby while in the NICU.

• Catawba Medical Foundation, Hickory, North Carolina — to receive $1,000 toward one large neoBLUE blanket LED Phototherapy System.

• Norton Children's Hospital Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky — to receive $1,000 for gas gift cards for parents traveling over 50 miles one way to visit their baby in the NICU.

• Edward Hospital, Naperville, Illinois — to receive two $1,000 grants. The first for the ‘Beads of Courage Program,’ which provides NICU patients and families with a strand of beads to help tell their story of courage during their NICU stay. The second to give families voice recorders, used during their NICU stay.

• AMITA Health Saint Joseph Hospital, Chicago, Illinois — to receive $1,000 for HALO SleepSacks and Joey Bands for NICU admissions of less than 32 weeks gestation.

• Lourdes Foundation, Inc., Lafayette, Louisiana — to receive $1,000 for Lullaby Sound Spas and portable Sound Machines for families to take home.

• Franciscan Health Foundation, Indianapolis, Indiana — to receive $1,000 for the purchase of gas cards for families visiting their babies in the NICU.

• Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas — to receive $1,000 for meal cards for breastfeeding mothers.

• Nationwide Children’s Hospital Foundation, Columbus, Ohio — to receive $1,000 for Compact Swings for babies at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Mount Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital.

• North Colorado Medical Center, Greeley, Colorado — to receive $999 to provide graduation celebrations for NICU families.

• Franciscan Health Foundation, Crown Point, Indiana — to receive $1,000 for insulated cooler bags for breastfeeding NICU mothers.

• Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, Georgia — to receive $1,000 for gas cards, meal tickets, grocery gift cards and hygiene items for NICU families.

• Franciscan Health Foundation, Olympia Fields, Illinois — to receive $960 toward Pack ‘n Plays for NICU/SCN infants.

• The Tiny Miracles Foundation, Darien, Connecticut — to receive $1,000 for the stocking of food in family rooms and providing in-hospital meals for parents during the holiday season.