Bring Health and Hope to Kids
Support OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital and help provide life-saving care so they can do what they do best: be kids.
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Your gift matters
OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital is able to make a difference in the lives of so many kids because generous, passionate donors make a difference through the power of giving. Support from donors provides life-saving care and treatment to kids from across Oregon and beyond when they need it most.
Doernbecher offers the region’s broadest range of pediatric treatments – to more children in more places than any other hospital in Oregon or southwest Washington. Your support makes this life-saving care possible.
Curious, clever and a bit tricksy! Meet Rosie
Rosie is a curious and clever 9-year-old who doesn’t let anything slow her down. She loves to paint, dance barefoot in her backyard and snuggle with her family’s six cats. Diagnosed shortly after birth with spina bifida, Rosie has faced numerous medical challenges, including eight surgeries—all of which she and her family navigated with the expertise and compassion of her care teams at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. Rosie was asked to participate in the Coraline’s Curious Cat Trail, a free art trail throughout Portland in celebration of the 15th anniversary of LAIKA’s debut film Coraline. Learn more about Rosie and Coraline’s Curious Cat Trail.
Make a gift to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital — so that personalized, life-saving care is there when families need it most.
Your gift can save lives
When you support OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, you’re helping kids like Christopher, Hugo and Macey. Get to know them and their families in these short videos, and learn what drives these incredible young people.
“My Doernbecher care team – they really mean a lot,” Christopher says.
“I don’t even know where all this strength comes from,” says Hugo’s mom.
“Her resilience has been an absolute amazing thing to watch,” says Macey’s mom.
Kids need research just for them
Kids aren’t mini adults. Which means that research conducted on adults can’t just be shrunk down to fit children. Kids’ bodies and brains are still developing and growing — and because they have their entire lives ahead of them, it’s important to minimize the long-term effects of any new therapy or treatment. At Doernbecher, our researchers develop innovative treatments designed specifically to benefit our youngest patients.
How your gift helps kids
We encourage our donors to make a gift to the “area of greatest need” at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. But what does that mean? When you give, your generosity is fueling support for life-saving care and breakthrough research to help kids. Your gift makes an impact.
Doernbecher Philanthropy Board
Meet the members of the board that drives fundraising strategy for Doernbecher.
Get in Touch
For more information on how you can make a difference for OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, please contact Sarah Larson, Assistant Vice President of Development.
Patient Care
Doernbecher’s impact throughout the decades
We had the chance to catch up with a few former Doernbecher patients and their families, reflecting on how their experiences at the hospital changed their health and futures for the better.
Giving
Celebrating 20 years of Doernbecher Freestyle
In our 20 year retrospective video, meet the people who came up with the idea of Doernbecher Freestyle and made it fly.
Patient Care
Freestyle 20: Jillian Beagley
Jillian Beagley is a patient-designer in Doernbecher Freestyle 20. Her designs were released in October 2024.
