This year’s charity is Kids of Courage, a volunteer based non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and young adults with serious medical diagnoses.

These heroic children battle for their lives, sometime for every breath. They inspire others with their strength, tenacity and dazzling will to live. Kids of Courage is giving them the opportunity to live like other children and experience life in the best way imaginable. They help them forget the tubes and pumps and needles and the daily challenges and experience the thrills of carefree childhood happiness.
But Kids of Courage is also about the families who care for their sons, daughters, brothers and sisters every day without rest. By providing year round activities for the entire family and medically supervised dream trips, Kids of Courage gives them an opportunity to relax and recuperate from the physically and emotionally exhausting lifestyles they lead.

Kids of Courage serves hundreds of families from all over the country. The organization helps everyone regardless of their religious, social and economic background. The programming goes on all year round; complete with trips, weekends and fun events. All services provided are free to the children and families; as the organization firmly believes that these families have enough burdens in their lives without worrying about the finances needed to participate in our activities. The staff is all volunteer; there are no salaries or financial compensation to any members of the team (with the exception of a part time office manager). This differentiates Kids of Courage from most other organizations. Kids of Courage relies wholly on the charitable donations that we receive from generous donors.

Kids of Courage is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

For more information on Kids of Courage go to www.kidsoc.org