Light Up the Lawn. Light Up a Life.
While many kids are making their holiday wish lists right now, the patients at Nationwide Children’s Hospital are simply wishing they could be home. But you have the power to make their holidays a little brighter. The moment you donate, the butterflies on our lawn light up for our patients to see. We hope you’ll give our patients some magical moments and show them how much their community cares.
The Most Selfless Gift
Maggie experienced respiratory failure and severe lung damage. After two months in the hospital, she received a lifesaving double lung transplant. Maggie calls organ donation the most selfless gift you could ever give. Your financial gift can support lifesaving care at Nationwide Children’s Hospital this holiday season.
How Your Donation Helps Kids
Your donation not only brings joy to our patients by lighting up the butterflies on our lawn and inside the hospital, but it also provides hope by funding life-saving research and care. It illuminates our path as we continue to provide compassionate care right here in Central Ohio, regardless of a family’s ability to pay.
See Your Gift in Action
The moment you donate, the butterflies on the lawn light up for our patients to see. And you can see them, too. Watch your gift in real time on our live stream.
The butterflies displayed on the lawn are available for sponsorship and include a variety of benefits for individuals or corporate benefactors.
Find, and light, a butterfly tonight.
Experience the magic of Light Up the Lawn, Light Up a Life by donating at a butterfly near you. Simply click on a butterfly on our Butterfly Tracker to get directions. Once you’re standing in front of your butterfly of choice, scan the QR code to donate and see it light up in front of your eyes. And our patients will see butterflies light up the lawn in front of Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
Your Gift Funds Pediatric Research
Your donation allows us to perform important clinical research and trials that bring hope to patients and families.
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Shop For a Cause
When you shop with us, you help make our work possible. Shop blankets, cards and more.
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Get Involved
Holiday Toy Drop
December 8 & 9, 2023
525 E Mound Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215
You can help our patients and families by gifting items from a wish list carefully selected by Child Life and Psychosocial services. Items on the wish lists include educational toys, games, and other items.
Donatos & Cheryl's Support On Our Sleeves
October 2 - December 31, 2023
From October 2, 2023 through December 31, 2023, purchase a Cheryl's Cookie at Donatos and a portion of sales will help provide free mental health resources to children and families throughout our community.
Learn MoreFoundation Events
Ace Hardware In-Store Campaign
Each year, over 20 central Ohio Ace Hardware locations make it a personal goal to raise funds for Nationwide Children's Hospital through year-round endeavors like coin canisters, round-up campaigns and fundraising events.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Butterfly Guild of Nationwide Children's Hospital hosts Disney's Beauty and the Beast March 1-3, 2024.
About the Nationwide Children's Hospital Foundation
In 1892, a group of citizens held a sale to raise money for the care of sick, impoverished children. That effort led to the opening of Nationwide Children’s Hospital in 1894. For more than a century, we have existed to care for every child, for every reason.
The Foundation is the fundraising arm of Nationwide Children’s. Our job – with your help – is to ensure much needed funds are available for innovative research, emerging trends in pediatric health, and to react to our ever changing world. Philanthropy ensures that we can dream big.
Over 100 years… That is how long charity, donations, and generosity have enabled us to help children. With your help, we can add another century to our distinguished history.
The Nationwide Children's Foundation serves to further the mission of Nationwide Children's Hospital while meeting donor philanthropic goals. Nationwide Children's Hospital is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (EIN: 31-1036370)