National Partners

Diapers.Com - Diapers.com is Helping to Make Wishes Come True - For every new referral to the site, Diapers.com will donate $5 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. In addition, their sister sites (soap.com, beautybar.com, wag.com, casa.com and yoyo.com) offer newly referred guests the same privilege, with a potential total donation of $30 ($5 per site). For program details, visit http://a.wish.org/DiapersWish.

Macy’s - Thanks for Sharing gives Macy’s shoppers the opportunity to do their holiday shopping and help make wishes come true for children with life-threatening medical conditions. Shoppers enroll on the program for $25, enabling them to receive a reward card valued at 10 percent of all their Macy’s credit card purchases. The rewards come in the form of a gift card sent to participants after the holidays. For each Thanks for Sharing program member enrolled, Macy’s donates $10 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. During the 2011 holidays, Macy’s Believe campaign encouraged all kids, young and old, to drop a letter to Santa in mailboxes at any Macy’s location to explain why they believe.  For each letter left in the mailboxes, Macy’s donated one dollar to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, resulting in a more than a $1 Million donation to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Brooks Brothers’ Golden Fleece Foundation is a national partner and supporter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Each spring Golden Fleece Foundation holds a special charity two-day shopping event nationwide to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Jewelers for Children (JFC) has raised over $6.9 million to date for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, helping grant 1,053 wishes in the United States. In 2008, JFC donated $500,000 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America through the Wish A State program, to grant a wish for each Make-A-Wish location, including the Metro New York chapter.

Things Remembered’s partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation began in 1997 when wish child Elysia wished to give her loved ones personalized gifts so they would remember her. To honor Elysia’s memory, Things Remembered created Make-A-Wish gifts to benefit the Foundation. To date, Things Remembered has donated more than $5.5 million to the Foundation.  Things Remembered raises funds for the Foundation from the sale of gifts, through employee giving and through a customer donation program.

UnitedHealth Care Group (UHC) has pledged $1.5 million annually to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America through 2010. As part of the three-year, $4.5 million partnership, the UnitedHealth Group Wishes program has been established to enable the company to grant wishes through the Foundation’s 64 chapters nationwide – resulting in two wishes granted for Metro New York children due to UHC’s support.  UHC has also added Make-A-Wish chapters as eligible recipients for employee donations. UHC employees are also encouraged to make a positive difference in their communities by contributing their time and talents to the Foundation.

Each year, Zurich Life conducts a workplace giving campaign nationwide – resulting in a $42,500 donation to the Metro New York chapter this year.

Since 2001, Cold Stone Creamery®, along with its franchise community, has hosted the annual World’s Largest Ice Cream Social at all Creamery locations to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The event is the culmination of a full month of fundraising efforts, and is celebrated with an energetic, fun-filled event atmosphere. Each year a wish child is selected to serve as Junior Tastemaster, assisting Cold Stone Creamery with the development of a delicious Make-A-Wish Creation, which is served free to guests during the event in exchange for donations to the Foundation.

Few law firms in the world place greater emphasis on pro bono legal service than Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Since 2005, Weil, Gotshal & Manges has provided pro bono legal services to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, donating considerable time and resources to help further the Make-A-Wish cause. With more than 1,200 lawyers across the U.S., Europe and Asia, Weil, Gotshal & Manges represents many of the most successful companies in the world, including the nation’s preeminent wish-granting organization..

For more information, please contact:
Maria Casey
Director, Corporate and National Alliances
516-944-6212 ext. 105
mcasey@metrony.wish.org