Heart Month With Harboring Hearts
Our 2024 Heart Month has come to an end and we are ecstatic to announce that it has been a resounding success! We would like to thank our wonderful hospital partners, dedicated volunteers, staff members, and patients for coming and being a part of these events.
Our first event was with the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore on February 6th, 2024! With this community event we were able to reach 60 patients, family members, and hospital staff. Spreading the word about our mission brings us closer to giving hope to even more transplant patients and families.
A special thank you to Montefiore for co-hosting this function with us! From giving out flyers, t-shirts, heart-healthy snacks, and drawing pages, our Harboring Hearts team connected with so many of you!
Harboring Hearts Staff Members, The Junior Board, Volunteers, and Patients Attended NASDAQ’s Opening Bell Ceremony!
On February 16th, 2024, Harboring Hearts rang the NASDAQ bell on live television! We are so thankful to NASDAQ for inviting us to attend their Opening Bell Ceremony! Spreading the word about what we do as an organization and getting to join in on this priceless occasion is a memory our team will always remember. Thank you so much, NASDAQ, for inviting us to join you on this special day! It is one we will never forget.
On February 22nd, we co-hosted our very first Heart Party since 2020 with Morgan Stanley’s Children’s Hospital! The sixty patients and families who visited made their very own bookmarks, star wands, and got coloring pages of Cat In The Hat! The DJ and character made this party a perfectly fun and relaxing event for our patients and their parents.
We want to also thank our Junior Board for making the encouraging cards that our patients were able to take with them. We want them to know that we are rooting for them! Uplifting, heartwarming, and inspiring, this was an exceptional way to revamp our Heart Parties!
We also co-hosted a Support Group at NYU for heart transplant patients and their caregivers! Hearing these heartbreaking, yet inspiring stories brought tears to everyone’s eyes and connected these wonderful patients with others who went through similar experiences.
Seeing such amazing and resilient people with inspiring stories and their loved ones supporting them was heartwarming in every sense of the word.
Thanks to YOU, we are able to give these patients hope and let them know they have our unconditional support.
Finally, we co-hosted an event at the Ronald McDonald House! We were so honored to volunteer and give back to our patients. Serving them food and packaging it so the families would have access to these meals later was so rewarding. Seeing the smiles on the children’s faces while we provided them with coloring materials was invaluable and also provided relief to their parents. Making sure they didn’t go to bed on an empty stomach was something that every parent and child should never have to worry about.
Our Heart Month this year was fantastic, incredible, and awe-inspiring. We are so thankful for all of our partners, volunteers, and supporters for helping us make it happen. Helping our patients by giving them emotional or financial assistance is made possible by all of our supporters and partners. Because of YOU, we can give hope to hearts everywhere.
