The Little Giraffe Foundation funds NICU Support Grants to hospitals across the country to extend our work into hospitals we cannot regularly reach. Some examples of recent grants include:

• The “Very Merry NICU Christmas” Project by Carter G. Cares, Inc., which hosts a Christmas Eve luncheon and provides Christmas baskets for NICU families at the MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore.

• The “Precious Preemies” program at Abington Hospital in southeast Pennsylvania, which provides breast pumps and car seats for NICU families in need.

• The “NICU Sibling Support Program” at the Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns in San Diego, which provides books to older siblings of NICU babies that help them understand and cope with the baby’s hospitalization.

We are thrilled to support these programs, and other deserving initiatives, because they share our mission and serve NICU families that we otherwise could not reach.