The Daily Tar Heel

TO THE EDITOR:

With about two months until the annual UNC Dance Marathon on March 20 and 21, Carolina for the Kids Foundation is currently recruiting motivators and volunteers to be a part of our annual 24-hour event.

Carolina for the Kids is a year-long fundraising effort, which works to overcome childhood illness by providing major support for the medical, surgical and emotional care of the patients and families served by the N.C. Children’s Hospital. Last year, for the very first time, we raised over half a million dollars, and we could not have done that without the support of our dancers, motivators, volunteers and everyone else who contributed to the cause.

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Carolina For the Kids, previously known as Dance Marathon, is helping to fund a pediatric clinic run by N.C. Children’s Hospital but is not giving up on its two main programs.

The organization will give about $2.5 million over the next five years to the new clinic project as a part of a partnership with N.C. Children’s Promise, said Executive Director Evan Sherwood. 

The first program the organization will maintain, he said, is the For the Kids Fund — an ongoing grant that takes care of families’ medical costs not covered by Medicaid or private insurance. 

The second program that will continue to receive money is Parents Night Out. Every Tuesday night, Carolina For the Kids provides a hot meal to three floors of the hospital for parents of patients, he said. 

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