Donate toys and items
You can support our patients through in-kind gifts of toys, supplies, activities and other much-appreciated items. You can also allow our staff to respond to specific needs by donating to our Foundation, and allowing us to acquire the most-helpful items.
Ways to help directly
Wish list
View our wish list to see items that are our greatest needs.
Amazon wish list
We have curated wish lists of items that help make for a comfortable and more enjoyable hospital stay for our patients and families.
AmazonSmile
Log into your Amazon account through smile.amazon.com, choose Children’s Minnesota as your charity of choice, and 0.5% of your purchases will be automatically donated.
Let us do the shopping for you
By making a financial contribution, you’ll help the Children’s Minnesota staff purchase toys, books, crafts and games tailored to our patients’ needs based on age, diagnosis and hospital appropriateness.
Need more information?
For information about supporting the mission of Children’s Minnesota by making a donation, please email [email protected] or call 952-992-5500.
Frequently asked questions
Disclaimer: In-kind donations are directed to the Child Life Program for equitable distribution to patients and families. If an in-kind gift is requested to be designated to a specific area of the hospital, please provide this detail in the space provided on the In-kind Donation Form. The Child Life Program will make its best effort to comply with the requested designation. Depending on many factors including, but not limited to, unit needs and the quality of the in-kind gift, Children’s Minnesota may not be able to meet the designation request for the in-kind donation and may, at its sole discretion, designate the in-kind donation to other areas of the hospital or provide the in-kind donation to other non-profit organization(s).
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