Our programs are geared toward seriously ill children and include:
Community events and outings for children and their families, which give families a chance to have fun together away from the hospital so they can relax, regroup and return home with a renewed sense of strength and hope.
Playrooms and special events designed to ease the loneliness, fear and boredom that accompany long hospital stays. Starlight Starbright has built more than 60 children’s playrooms and teen lounges in hospitals nationwide that provide children with an inviting place to play, relax and connect.
Technology-based programs that help kids fill the long hours with fun, and stay connected to their friends, keep up with school work and chat with other seriously ill children.
Educational programming via CDs, DVDs and the Internet that helps sick children understand common hospital procedures and manage illnesses such as cancer, sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, asthma, IBD and kidney disease.
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Starlight Children's Foundation helps seriously ill children and their families cope with their pain, fear and isolation through entertainment, education and family activities. view more
About me: For 25 years, Starlight Children’s Foundation has been dedicated to improving the quality of life for children with chronic and life-threatening medical conditions by providing education, entertainment and family events that help them cope with the pain, fear and isolation of prolonged illness.
We understand what families go through when a child is sick, and how important it is to find relief from constant worry and isolation. Our programs are designed to distract children from their pain, help them better understand and manage their illnesses, and connect families with others facing similar challenges to create a community of caring so they never feel alone. For more information, visit us online at www.starlight.org.
In the Spotlight:
A Word from Corbin Bleu: Starlight's New National Spokesperson.
My life has undergone monumental changes in the past few years. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that I have been fortunate, beyond what words can describe.
But there is nothing I am more thankful for than my health, and the health of my family and friends.
I am all too aware that there are millions of young people around the country who are not as fortunate. Whether sidelined by an injury, or fighting against a disease, any child who is in the hospital is dealing with issues that even adults have trouble coping with. They may be confused and frightened by what’s going on around them, and they are most certainly overwhelmed. Kids are out of their element, and looking for a way to reconnect to the lives they had, before they were sick.
To say that Starlight changes lives is an understatement. This organization has done so much to give children battling illnesses a touchstone to their previous lives, and gives them a security blanket to hold onto during their toughest times.
At the same time, the programs offered by Starlight are educational, and give kids relatable, easily-understood background on what’s going on with their bodies, and gives them hope. Each game, movie, and video gives them insight that is proven effective during their stressful times.
I’m proud to work with Starlight, and bring a spotlight to the amazing work that they do.
Going, Going, Gone! Bats will crack. Baseballs will sail. Cheers will reach a fever pitch. It’s all part of the exciting 80th All-Star Major League Baseball Game, which will be played at Busch Stadium on July 14, 2009. It will be the fifth Midsummer Classic to be held in St. Louis.
Tickets also include Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby; the classic slugfest at Busch Stadium that features your favorite American Leaguers and National Leaguers.
Plus, catch the thrilling action of all the 2009 All-Star events at All-Star Sunday at Busch Stadium featuring XM All-Star Futures Game All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game!
*Proceeds from this auction benefits Starlight Children’s Foundation.
You've seen these hilarious comedians on Jay Leno, David Letterman, and Comedy Central. Now you can support Starlight while enjoying a side-splitting and raucous evening with renowned stand-up comedians Carol Leifer, Wendy Liebman and Jimmy Brogan.
The first 200 people to reserve their seats will receive a COMPLIMENTARY AUTOGRAPHED COPY of Carol Leifer's new book, When You Lie about Your Age the Terrorists Win, recently featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show,The View, and The Today Show.
Tickets: $25 100% of ticket sales will go to Starlight Children's Foundation
Where: The Laugh Factory 8001 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90046
Valet parking is available in front of the Laugh Factory for $7 The Laugh Factory has a two drink minimum that is not included in the ticket price.
CarolLeifer most recently was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Howard Stern Show, Real Time with Bill Maher and The David Letterman Show. Carol is also an Emmy-winning comedy writer for her work on Seinfeld, the Larry Sanders Show and Saturday Night Live.
Wendy Liebman has appeared on The David Letterman Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Pulp Comics on Comedy Central, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The Roseanne Show, Women of the Nighh on HBO and Comic Relief VII on HBO.
JimmyBrogan has appeared on Late Night with David Letterman as well as The Tonight Show with both Jay Leno and Johnny Carson. He was also a writer on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for 9 years. After beginning his TV career as an Angel on an ABC sitcom called Out of the Blue, he hosted Laffathon (Showtime), Comic Strip Live (Fox) and You Asked For It, Again (Family Channel). Carol, Wendy and Jimmy are generously donating their time to help Starlight bring more joy and smiles to seriously ill kids.
FirstGiving Visit www.firstgiving.com/starlight to create your own personal fundraising page!
Starlight Charity Challenge -- Play the Online Videogame!
Starlight is pleased to announce the development of The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures, a casual videogame that pairs having a good time with doing good.
A first-of-its-kind fundraising initiative, Starlight has partnered with Legacy Interactive®, a leader in games for the mass market, on the game's development and publishing. Dave Thomas and his comedy team at Emmy Award-winning studio, Animax Entertainment, developed the game's original script Animax Entertainment, and SomaTone Audio Studios to create this hilarious arcade adventure game about a thoroughly modern family trying to bond on a road trip to see the Alamo. To play today, visit
The Tuttles Family Game!
Join Site of a Million Stars!
Starlight is excited to announce the launch of Site of a Million Stars, an exciting virtual universe which is bringing together people from all over the world to shine a light into the lives of seriously ill children and their families. Add your star to the Million Stars universe today! Visit
Site of a Million Stars!
hello~my new Friends! Sunshine for you I am glad, many thanks for the new Friendship I wish a Happy Great Fun Week ~ Love greetings music greetings from my home StudioEmM~ROMAN AMADEUS*
I cannot thank you enough for your kind support and friendship! Welcome to our ever growing family of friends. I'm really happy you have decided to become friends of the Wake Up (to child abuse) MySpace Music page. Just by adding us to your friends you have already demonstrated that you have a good heart and are willing to take a step towards ending the hidden suffering of so many.
We also dare to hope you will be able to persuade some of your other MySpace friends to join our just fight against child abuse by adding us to their friends too. The larger our family of friends becomes, the more people we will be able to reach and educate about this terrible ‘disease’ sweeping across the world which blights the lives of more children than you may imagine. Please take a moment to read some of the statistics on child abuse highlighted on our profile and within our blogs. I am sure you will be just as shocked and appalled as we are when you find out the full extent of this scourge.
The innocent children suffering such terrible abuse need all the help they can get. Increased awareness of this foul concealed crime will help to prevent more children living through the agonising torment which I was forced to experience.
I hope you have a great day and look forward to hearing from you soon with your views and comments on this important issue,
Thank you, Starlight Children's Foundation. I am very much aware and appreciate of the outstanding work that you do on behalf of children. I have known this for many years, decades in fact. I would sincerely like to thank my Top Friend, Ms. Chloe Jordache for suggesting you and your organization to me. Ms. Chloe has wisdom and social awareness and inner, innate kindness, to a highly developed degree. Usually, when she suggest something to me, I quickly try to accomodate her because I like her instincts and good judgement.
Thank you! I will return. Let me know how I may help you. I don't have a huge amount of Friends; however the small circle of global Friends that I do have are highly supportive and totally in sync with the interests of our team.
I have many sites here on the myspace network and multiple sites on the Google YouTube network.
Amazing =) So glad to be a small part of this =D Thank you for everyyything you have done for me. If I wouldn't have found SBW and the Starlight Organization, i don't know what I would have done! THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart =)
Hello people! Thanks 4 the add =] So, I know that you guys do an amazing work, and I really appreciate that. Congratulations! Let me know if I could help in something. (I live in Brazil, by the way) See ya! -Franciele Daltoé :)
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