Hospital days can be long, frightening, and uncertain. Your $495 gift to Bring Magic will bring a full day of laughter to kids when it’s needed the most.
Transform today – or any day – into one of the good ones for kids who need it most.
Hospital days can be long, frightening, and uncertain. Your $495 gift to Bring Magic will bring a full day of laughter to kids when it’s needed the most.
Transform today – or any day – into one of the good ones for kids who need it most.
Hospitals are designed for treatment. But a child’s experience is more than medical. A personalized magic show transforms how a hospital day feels – for the child and the family.
For a moment, a child stops thinking about needles, test results, and procedures. They’re laughing. They’re wondering. Magic can spark the first real laughter since admission. That reset matters for young patients.
Parents spend hours holding it together. Seeing their child smile – sometimes for the first time since being hospitalized – can feel like a turning point. It reminds them that beyond the patient, their child is still there. The spark is still there.
Hospital rooms can feel heavy – filled with fear about what might happen next. When laughter enters, the atmosphere shifts. Siblings relax. Care teams notice. The day softens. It’s not just a trick.
It’s a change in how the hospital experience feels.
Hospitals are designed for treatment. But a child’s experience inside them is more than medical. A personalized magic show transforms how a hospital day can feel – for the child and the family. That transformation is important for everyone.
For a moment, a child stops thinking about needles, test results, and procedures. They’re laughing. They’re wondering. Magic can spark the first real laughter since admission. That reset matters for young patients.
Parents spend hours holding it together. Seeing their child smile – sometimes for the first time since being hospitalized – can feel like a turning point. It reminds them that beyond the patient, their child is still there. The spark is still there.
Hospital rooms can feel heavy – filled with fear about what might happen next. When laughter enters, the atmosphere shifts. Siblings relax. Care teams notice. The day softens. It’s not just a trick.
It’s a change in how the hospital experience feels.
The Perfect Reason to Run
Somewhere tonight, a kid is lying awake in a hospital room, too scared to fall asleep. Join the Bring Magic Charity Team and run a World Marathon Major (Chicago, Berlin, Sydney, Cape Town, and more) while raising the funds that send critical smiles to that bedside. We’ll back you every mile, from training to fundraising to the finish line.
Every mile gets a kid one step closer to laughter and strength in the hardest place to find it.
Open Heart Magic is now Bring Magic to Kids in Hospitals – or Bring Magic for short. Same volunteers, same Bedside Magic®, and same young patients finding a reason to laugh during the toughest hospital stays.
The only thing different is the name, and now it says exactly what you make possible.
We Bring Magic, together.
Join us on November 7th at Chicago’s exclusive Casino Club for a night of revelry and magic. Casino Magicale, presented by James Banks Foundation, is our annual gala full of abundant hors d’oeuvres, endless drinks, live music, exciting games, fantastic prizes, and incredible close-up magic. And it’s all to help sick kids get their magic back.
Special thanks to James Banks Foundation, Casino Magicale’s Title Sponsor, and all of our Gala Sponsors.
One Bedside Magic visit can change everything for a kid. As a Monthly Donor you will build lasting programs that will continue to change the hospital experience for kids.
Hospital stays don’t pause. Kids don’t stop needing support.
Your monthly gift ensures that magic consistently shows up – not just once, but again and again for kids in need.
Your recurring gift helps sustain:
• Strong hospital partnerships
• Ongoing training for volunteer specialists
• Reliable bedside visits across our network of programs
Just $30 per month brings two Bedside Magic visits to kids.
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Hospitalized kids in your community deserve magic. You can help make it happen. If you believe your city needs Bedside Magic®, we’ll walk you through:
• What it takes
• What it costs
• What sustainable growth really requires
Bringing magic to a new city isn’t about launching a program. It’s about building the support system that allows it to last.
Together, we can make it possible — and make it endure.
Bring Magic started as a simple idea to help kids. Thanks to a dedicated community and a little bit of magic, it has grown into an elite hospital program. Bedside Magic programs are active at:
• Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s
• Cleveland Clinic Children’s
• University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s
• and more …
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Can We Do This? #03: Volunteering
