At The Children's Heart Foundation, our dedicated volunteers, donors, and WalkStars are the driving force behind funding groundbreaking congenital heart defect research. Thanks to their critical fundraising efforts, we swiftly put donated funds to work. Guided by our esteemed Medical Advisory Council (MAC), which includes medical doctors, PhDs, and lay reviewers, we annually invite grant applications, rigorously review and score them, and consider them for funding awards. We also support scientific collaborations and CHD research fellowships. Learn more here about how we're making a difference in the fight against congenital heart defects.

 

You can donate to an individual, a team or a general event donation for any Walk. Click the Donate link at the top of any page to search by individual or team. If you have trouble, contact us at 847-634-6474 for assistance.

 

Please make all checks and money orders payable to The Children's Heart Foundation and mail to:

If possible, please complete our offline donation form, which can be found here, and include it with your check or money order; you may also use the check memo line to indicate to which walker and/or team the donation should be credited. If a donation check has been written out to you personally, you may endorse the back of the check and mail it in with a completed donation form. We do not recommend you send cash donations in the mail; instead, deposit the cash into your checking account and then send a personal check from your account.

 

Any donation made online should post immediately. If an online donation does not post within 30 minutes, please contact us.

 

When making a donation, we have a convenient eCheck option as a method of payment in addition to credit card(s), or PayPal. 

 

If you check this checkbox, you will be charged the amount indicated next to the checkbox. This amount will also be visible to The Children's Heart Foundation. However, on the fundraising page, your intended initial donation amount will be displayed.

 

All monetary donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

 

Yes. For Canadian donations made online with a credit card, the amount entered in the online donation form will be in U.S. dollars.

 

All online donations which include an email address will automatically receive a donation receipt via email. For donors who mail their donation, please include an email address to receive a receipt once your donation is received.

 

A Tax ID number identifies The Children’s Heart Foundation as a 501(c)(3) non-profit Organization. The Children’s Heart Foundation’s Tax ID number is 36-4077528.

 

Websites remain open till December 31 for additional donations online. 

 

 

Any donation made online should post immediately. If your donation does not post within 30 minutes, please contact The Children’s Heart Foundation.

 

Log in to your Participant Center with your email and password to visit your page. You will then be able to access a list of all of your donors as well as a list of all donors to your team’s page.

 

Login to your Participant Center and click on the "emails" tab. There you can send Thank You emails to your donors!

 

Each walker who raises $75 or more through fundraising or self-donation will earn a shirt. During the registration process, we kindly request your t-shirt size to ensure we have it prepared for those who have earned this incentive. Fundraising incentives can be earned for up to 30 days after the conclusion of each Walk (with shipping available to U.S. addresses only). For further information, please feel free to contact our team at: WalkForCHDResearch@childrensheartfoundation.org.

 

Yes! Visit your Participant Center and look for the blue boxes that link to Facebook to set up a Facebook fundraiser that links directly to your page! All funds raised will be credit to your fundraising page. Learn how to set one up by watching our informational video. Please contact us at WalkForCHDResearch@childrensheartfoundation.org if you have questions.

 

 

When you register yourself, before completing the registration click on the "Register Another Person" button. You can add other registrations here, and each registration will have their own fundraising page as well as a unique username and password (even if they are sharing email addresses)

 

 

 

Most Walks are approximately 1 mile. Specific information about each Walk’s length can be found at the Event Details page for that Walk.

 

 

We would be grateful to receive your #CHDStory! Click here to share your story. 

 

No. The Children’s Heart Foundation and its events are non-secular.

 

Thank you! Please click on the Volunteer tab above for more information and to link to volunteer registration.

 

Please contact us at 847-634-6474, or WalkForCHDResearch@childrensheartfoundation.org if we can further assist you.