In 2021, The Little Giraffe Foundation funded 15 NICU Support grants.

2021 NICU Support Grants

• Baptist Health Foundation, Madisonville, Kentucky — to receive $1,000 to purchase a glider chair that will allow mothers to comfortably breastfeed their babies in the NICU.

• Friends of Mercy Foundation, Bakersfield, California — to receive $1,000 to support the NICView project which will allow parents and families to see their baby in the NICU via a secure feed from their mobile device.

• Caiden’s Hope Foundation, The Woodlands, Texas — to receive $1,000 to provide gas cards, food, lodging and transportation to NICU parents nationwide.

• University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland — to receive $947 to provide books to NICU families to facilitate parents reading to their babies.

• Flagstaff Medical Center, Flagstaff, Arizona — to receive $1,000 to provide swaddle sacks to special care nursery parents at the time of discharge.

• The Superhero Project, Grafton, Wisconsin — to receive $1,000 to support the “Lullabies of Love” program that gives ​​NICU parents at Reston Hospital Center in Reston, Virginia digital voice recorders and books that they can use to create recordings of themselves talking, reading books and singing lullabies that can then be played to their babies when they are away.

• Abington Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — to receive $1,000 for car seats for preemies and breast pumps that will help families have a safe transition from the NICU to home.

• Dell Children’s Medical Center, Austin, Texas — to receive $1,000 for car seats to transport NICU graduates home safely.

• Edward Hospital, Naperville, Illinois — to receive $1,000 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 Nest Postpartum Support, Champaign, Illinois — to receive $1,000 to purchase fresh meals every week to give to the families with babies in the NICU at Carle Hospital in Champaign, Illinois.

• University of Virginia Children's Hospital, Charlottesville, Virginia — to receive $1,000 for heartbeat bears for memory-making that will be given to families who have lost a child in the NICU.

• St. Luke’s University Health Network, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania — to receive $1,000 to provide meal assistance to NICU families in need.

• University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, Colorado — to receive $1,000 to purchase polaroid cameras, cases and film, so caregivers can have physical photos of themselves engaging in activities with their child in the NICU.

• Franciscan Health Olympia Fields, Olympia Fields, Illinois — to receive $1,000 to purchase Pack ‘n Plays for families with infants who are graduating from the NICU.

• Babybuns for Life Network, Petersburg, Virginia — to receive $1,000 to purchase blessing bags and snacks for the parents’ lounge for NICU families at several hospitals in Virginia.