Make a Wish Foundation

1980 was a year like no other. It was the year Make A Wish Foundation was founded. Bringing the opportunity for many kids around the world the opportunity to have one of there dreams come true. Make a wish works by arranging a experiences described as "wishes" to children with life-threatening medical conditions. Children must be between 3 and 17 to participate. The Make A Wish Foundation does a really good job with helping a kid's life.

What would it be like to have a life-threatening disease, and not know if you’re going to make it? Then, you found out that you could have your biggest wish come true, because of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. That’s exactly what happens to thousands of kids each year.

St. Jude Children’s hospital was established in February of 1962 with the “sole purpose of conducting basic and clinical research and treatment into catastrophic childhood diseases” (StJude.org). They have raised survival of childhood cancer from 20% to 80% since their opening through their research (Cancer.org). Even with an average of 7,800 patients a year and a 1.8 million daily operating cost, parents never pay anything for their child’s stay (StJude.org). The survival rate has raised and children are able to stay at no cost due to donations. Most of these donations come from people around the world that see St. Jude’s effective and strong advertisements. I will be analyzing three rhetoric’s ethos, logos, and pathos the hospital used to raise funds and make it effective.

Growing up with a brother that has a mental disability, I’ve become very familiar with organizations that support children with disabilities. Make-A-Wish is a well-known nonprofit organization that grants terminally ill children their dream wish. If I could choose any person to room with it would be Tommy Austin. Tommy Austin is the co-founder of Make-A-Wish and a retired U.S. Customs agent. In the spring of 1980, Austin met a child named Chris Greicius who was dying of leukemia. Chris dreamed of becoming a police officer when he grew up. Austin was determined to not only grant this wish for Chris, but to also give him something to look forward to in life besides doctor visits. With the help of other officers, Austin was able to make Chris an honorary officer just days before he breathed his last breath. This story inspired many people to grant wishes for more children like Chris, thus creating the Make-A-Wish foundation.

Because of you, St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food because all a family should worry about is helping their child live. Discover how your contributions make this possible.We won’t stop until no child dies from cancer. Our founder believed that "no child should die in the dawn of life," and we’ve spent more than half a century focusing on our mission: Finding cures. Saving children.Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened more than 50 years ago. Help us go even further in conquering

Make-A-Wish is one of the most well-known charities in the world for giving dying children one last wish and making it come true for them. I remember in middle school one of my friend’s brothers had cancer and so his parents reached out to Make-A-Wish to try and give their son a happy memory that he could cherish for the rest of his life. He wished he could ride in a monster truck so the people at Make-A-Wish had it arranged and they reached out and asked them to come to the Delta Center which was home to the Utah Jazz but could also house monster trucking. He went and got to ride in the most famous monster

“A Seattle football star Russell Wilson has started a foundation to raise money to give those people with cancer, hopefully, a better life. ‘It is a great event that everyone has a lot of fun at. It’s also a good way for me to stay connected to the community and partner with Russell Wilson on such a special event and help the incredible team at Seattle Children’s Hospital cure childhood cancers.’” (Boyle) This event helps give the patients something to take their minds off of the hospitals and potential life threatening disease. “Previously a patient at Seattle Children’s, Milton was now following in Wilson’s footsteps, visiting patients and sharing his own story of beating cancer. ‘He’s trying to change kids’ lives,’ Wilson said. ‘That’s the real deal when you see that in person, when you see a guy who only had 12 hours left to live, and now he feels so strong and feels so great.’” (Boyle) Donating money isn’t just to give yourself a better name or to make you feel better, it can also inspire others to do the same and share their stories. Milton wright was not supposed to live and was told he had 12 hours to live. Later Wilson donated just over 1,000,000 to the hospital allowing them to help save him and get Milton back on his feet. This helps show that anything can happen to anyone if you invest into your community. Saving one person's life

Their goal focuses on engaging “the next generation of philanthropists to fund the highest-priority needs of the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids).” This is for individuals who want to connect with others who feel passionately about the health and well being of children.

Infact, the Make-a-Wish Foundations goal is to grant the wish of those with life threatening diseases, and help them look passed their disease, their surgeries, and most of all they want them to feel like a normal kid and have fun doing it. They want this memory to stick to them for their life, so they can look back at it in other dark times in their lives. The company tries to complete these goals by trying to grant every eligible child's wish. They also drive their donated resources as far as

Have you ever heard of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America? Well if you haven’t you might just want to cry over the things they do. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America is a charity that grants the wish of a child who has a life-threatening medical condition. According to lovetoknow.com, a child's wish can be a wish to go somewhere, a wish to be something, a wish to meet someone, or a wish to have something (Love-To-Know, web). According to wish.org “In the United States and its territories, on average, a wish is granted every 37 minutes” (Make-A-Wish, web). The goal of the charity is to make a kid happy by experiencing one last wish of their choice. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America is doing many wonderful things, but to do these things

Another important recommendation that GPD should implement is one point seven. This recommendation calls for departments to track the level of trust in their communities. This is a step for enhancing the public image of the police. Jake Horowitz, senior associate at the Pew Charitable Trusts, article in the national institute of justice stated “Departments might also consider tracking the level of satisfaction through community surveys. This feedback could be used to design police training and intervention programs (Horowitz. 2007. Pg. 10).” The chief of police in Greensboro expressed a want to get to the root cause of the problem and tracking trust they could have a better grip on what is causing problems.

Some people have said that Make-A-Wish Foundations trips are unorganized, stressful, and unreliable so the charity should not be supported. This statement is inaccurate. Though some trips may not be everything the kids had ever dreamed of, this foundation really tries to make the kids happy. For example, a little girl named Amelia became a princess for a day in Walt Disney World. She spent the whole day walking around Walt Disney World with her favorite princesses and then they joined her for dinner. Amelia will never forget her experience. Her family said that their trip was well organized and thoroughly planned out. Make-A-Wish is a fantastic foundation that tries their very hardest to make sick kids dreams to come true. Their are many wishes

One of the many controversies,is the commotion on free plastic surgery for teens. There is an organization called “The Little Baby Foundation” which provides free surgery for children and teens. The founder of the institution is Dr. Romo. His work contains fixing birth defects, and self confidence. A great proportion of people disagree with Romo’s intentions and think children shouldn’t receive the surgeries, because they believe that children should embrace their imperfections.

In the cases of Baby Hope, Charity, and Faith the family is faced with death. Baby Hope was dying and her parents couldn’t accept that. Like every parent, they want to do everything in the world possible to save their child, but there comes a point where medicine can no longer help the patient. In Baby Hope’s case the parents were faced with taking her off the ventilator, which was the only thing keeping her alive. Is it killing the baby? No, it’s not killing the baby. Hope’s health was so bad that they were only prolonging her death with the ventilator and the possibility of dialysis. If she is capable of suffering the best option is to let her go peacefully.

Among the key concepts of love touched upon by C.S. Lewis in his novel The Four Loves, is his concept of charity. Charity is a type of love that involves showing care for someone that is not easily loved, while doing it in a selfless manner with no gain for the caregiver. From the story of creation in Genesis we are told that mankind is made in God’s image. Through the act of God sacrificing His son Jesus for our iniquity, we see that he is charitable. Therefore, transitively, mankind is created naturally for charity. This is important to note because it shows that regardless of belief in God, anyone can be charitable. Our understanding of charity can be wrapped up nicely by Lewis on pages 128 and 129 of his book by the